MEXICO PUTS PRICE ON DRUG KINGPINS

It Offers $2 Million Each For 24 Leaders Of Six Violent Cartels

MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico's government on Monday offered $2 million
each for information leading to the arrest of 24 top drug lords in a
public challenge to the cartels' violent grip on the country.

The list indicated that drug gangs have splintered into six main
cartels under pressure from the U.S. and Mexican governments.

The two most powerful gangs, the Pacific and Gulf cartels, each
suffered fractures that have given rise to new cartels, according to
the list published by the Attorney General's Office.

The list offers rewards for:

The Gulf-Zetas Cartel

Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano Jorge Eduardo Costilla Sanchez Ezequiel
Cardenas Guillen, alias "TonyTormenta" Miguel Angel Trevino Morales
Omar Trevino Morales Ivan Velazquez Caballero, alias "El Taliban"
Gregorio Sauceda Gamboa

Pacific Cartel

Joaquin Guzman Loera or Joaquin Archivaldo Guzman Loera, alias "El
Chapo" Ismael Zambada Garcia, alias "El Mayo" Ignacio Coronel
Villarreal Juan Jose Esparragoza Moreno, alias "El Azul" Vicente
Zambada Niebla, alias "El Vicentillo"(captured)

Beltran Leyva Cartel

Arturo Beltran Leyva Mario Alberto Beltran Leyva and/or Hector
Beltran Leyva, alias "El General" Sergio Villarreal Barragan Edgar
Valdez Villareal, alias "La Barbie"

Carrillo Fuentes Cartel

Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, alias "El Viceroy" Vicente Carrillo Leyva

'La Familia' Cartel

Nazario Moreno Gonzalez Servando Gomez Martinez Jose de JesDus Mendez
Vargas, alias "El Chango" Dionicio Loya Plancarte

Arellano Felix Cartel

Teodoro Garcia Simental, alias "El Teo" Fernando Sanchez Arellano,
alias "El Ingeniero"