TIJUANA, Mexico, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- The arrest of a key leader of Mexico's Arellano Felix cartel is a major boost for the competing Sinaloa group, an observer of Mexico's drug wars said.
Victor Clark, director of the Binational Center for Human Rights, said Mexico's arrest Saturday of Juan Francisco Sillas Rocha in Tijuana will make it easier to bring down cartel leader Fernando Sanchez Arellano, SanDiegoRed.com reported Tuesday.
Mexico's Attorney General's Office said Sillas is accused of committing multiple murders on orders of Sanchez Arellano and waging a violent war against a drug cell protected by the Sinaloa cartel.
The war resulted in 2,327 killings and more than 100 kidnappings in Tijuana from 2008 to 2010.
Clark said the arrest could put the Sinaloa cartel in absolute control of drug sales in Tijuana.
"The Sinaloa cartel has a business-like approach; they use violence as a last resort," he told the online Spanish news organization. "If no other group challenges it for control of the region, we'll get what we have now, an apparent peace."
