{"id":31366,"date":"2013-07-15T18:46:48","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T01:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/?p=31366"},"modified":"2013-07-15T20:19:55","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T03:19:55","slug":"leader-of-mexicos-zetas-drug-cartel-captured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/leader-of-mexicos-zetas-drug-cartel-captured\/","title":{"rendered":"Leader of Mexico&#8217;s Zetas drug cartel captured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Miguel Angel Trevino Morales, the notoriously brutal leader of the feared Zetas drug cartel, has been captured in the first major blow against an organized crime leader by a Mexican administration struggling to drive down persistently high levels of violence, a U.S. federal official said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Several Mexican media outlets reported that Trevino Morales was captured by Mexican Marines in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, which has long served as the Zetas base of operations. The U.S. federal official was not authorized to speak to the press and asked not to be identified.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/L\/LT_MEXICO_ZETA_LEADER?SITE=ININS&amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=4a3fec08-def6-45a2-be96-3ea389d768f6\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Miguel Angel Trevino Morales, the notoriously brutal leader of the feared Zetas drug cartel, has been captured in the first major blow against an organized crime leader by a Mexican administration struggling to drive down persistently high levels of violence, a U.S. federal official said Monday. Several Mexican media outlets reported that Trevino Morales [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[13],"tags":[220,1013,2117,9045,222,5586,2056,6453],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31366"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31375,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31366\/revisions\/31375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}