As accused drug boss Edgar “La Barbie” Valdez Villarreal _ who was born in Texas _ sits in a Mexican prison, some of the history behind his climb to power has quietly spilled in an Atlanta courtroom. Valdez, who was captured three years ago in Mexico, stands out in Mexico’s underworld and if the allegations against him are true, he is one of the few Americans to reach the top echelons of a Mexican drug cartel. The last the world saw of Valdez was in 2010, when he was captured without a shot being fired outside Mexico City. He was then presented to the public in a somewhat bizarre news conference in which he appeared to be grinning by all of the attention as he was flanked by masked police dressed in black.
Posted on: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 14:25:00 +0000