deny an agreement to deport 'La Barbie'

veterinary drug dealer

MEXICO (France Presse) .- U.S. Ambassador Carlos Pascual, denied on Friday that the arrangement with the Mexican authorities that the head of U.S. origin Valdez Edgar "La Barbie", was arrested last week in Mexico, will be deported home.

"Agreement there are none, simply the possibility, but that decision must be taken by the Mexican government," Pascual told the Televisa channel.

The diplomat was reacting to a version of the newspaper El Universal that "Barbie" was not really captured in a police operation as reported by the government, but it was delivered.

The ambassador also denied another press release to the effect that before surrendering Valdez reportedly met with agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration in the United States.

"It is absolutely incorrect," he said Pascual, who supported the government's official version that the capture was due to an intelligence operation almost a year.

"There was the fact that" Barbie "came to America," he reiterated Pascual, who noted that the fact that Valdez is alive give "great opportunity to further exploit the information you have to go against other drug traffickers."

Arturo Beltran Leyva and Ignacio "Nacho" Coronel, the two senior drug traffickers killed in the last year in Mexico, were killed by Mexican soldiers in two separate operations in December and July.

Pascual avoided confirming whether there was presence of DEA agents in the capture of "Barbie", but not contradict it. The law in Mexico prevents or foreign military officers involved in operations in their territory without
legislative permission.

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