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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Diego Oré, Dave Graham and Drazen Jorgic

Mexico minimizes U.S. role in drug kingpin's capture

FILE PHOTO: Members of the National Guard stand outside Altiplano Federal Penitentiary, where drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero is imprisoned after Mexico's navy captured him on Friday, in Almoloya de Juarez, on the outskirts of Mexico City, Mexico July 17, 2022. REUTERS/Luis Cortes/File Photo

Mexico's president on Monday downplayed the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)'s role in last week's capture of drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, exposing tensions over security cooperation despite the major cross-border win.

The head of the DEA had hailed the arrest as the product of joint cooperation, but President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador repeatedly sought to paint a different picture.

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