be john holman reports from mexico city. >> today we've achieved the most important objective in the fight against organized crime. servando gomez-martinez, ran the knights templar. in recent years the cartel moved identity to farmers and anyone they could squeeze from. gomezess they want the people of michoacan to live in peace. >> first the cartel was under threat by vigilantes who rose up against him. gomez had been in hiding acknowledge andhiding dmg andbeleaguered by scan dalts and the orn going disappearance of 43 students who were attacked by local replies last year. rks. year. >> symbolic terms that doesn't change the situation of michoacan that much. there is one more nail in the coffin of the camplari offers cuts it will take its place. >> haven't been arrested or ciblg cirngaarena waive of killings say the john holman, al jazeera mexico city. >> lucia newman reports. >> south america not one not two but three female executives. ville ma marquez, cristina kirchner president of argentina, and chile michelle batchbachelet. what has some poangts asking for her impeachment is a

john holman reports. >> neighbors noticed a fee fetid smell coming from this abandoned cream tomorrow. >> it's been a year we complained but the government didn't come didn't take any notice. >> when police finally arrived in the early hours of friday morning they found 60 bodies inside. men, women and children have been embawmed. thereembalmed. as forensic team took them away they began investigating. they said the owner of the cream tomorrow fled months ago leave behind debts and the unburn bodies. he left them dmoferred salt. >> he charged families a fee to cremate the bodies we found. what we need now is for the owner to come forward and give a statement. >> the cream tomorrow is located in guerrero, the same state in which 43 students went missing in september. the local government was implicated in their disappearance. >> it's incedeical. how can 60 bodies be found in guerrero the same state in which the students disappeared. there was a fraud and no one noticed. that would not happen in any other country. >> disappearance of the students set off national protests which continue

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john holman holman reports. >> today we've achieved the most important objective in the fight against organized crime. l gomez known as la tuta led one of the mexican be criminal organization technical knights templar. gomez always maintainhe was a man of the people. >> i proudly represent the knights templar core tell. our intention is to make this work. we want the people of michoacan to live in peace and move freely through state. >> over the past years the cartel was under threat, then from federal authorities in the state of michoacan. gomez had been hiding more than a year. his capture could give a boost to president enrique pena nieto. >> it is one more nail in the coffin of the templarios, but other groups are taking their place. >> for years security analysts have been saying that mexico's problem with violence hasn't been solved by im imprisoning the cartel are leaders. they go beyond jailing just one man. >>> survivors of an avalanche in the north of afghanistan. three days of mourning for victims. more than 300 have been known to have survived. nicole johnston has the stor

as john holman reports, latuta has been a prime target. >> reporter: one. mexico's wanted me. tape without a shot. >> today we an achieved an important the objective in the fight against organised crime. samanda gomez allegedly rapping a powerful organization. the knights templar. the car tell branched out from drug trafficking. shopkeepers and anyone who they could psychiatries protection money from. i proudly represented the knight templar. our intention is to make this work. we want the people to live in piece and move freely through the state. >> over the past two years the cartel was under threat first from vigilantes and a federal offensive in the state. gomez has been in hiding as authorities conducted mann hunts across the state. his capture could positive a boost to pep yetto -- peno nieto, beleaguered by standals, and the disappearance of 43 students attacked by local police. >> it's huge it's for the administration. in practical terms, this does not change the situation that much. there's one more nail in the coffin of the templaries but other groups are taking it.

john holman, al jazeera mexico city. >>> today several strong cartels are struggling for power. >> sin lowealoa cartel operates as a confederacy of cartels. >> led by five brothers, four have now been arrested. the cartel moves cocaine from throughout mexico to the u.s. >>> corridor along the u.s. mexico border into texas. it has loins egg with alliances with the sin sinaloa cartel. >>> against other cartels the group of's brutal methods led to a vigilante revolt. chief of international operations for dea the dea. are you surprised with the anticlimactic apprehension of la tututa and the timing? >> i was actually surprised that la tuta was taken alive because he has professed for a number of years that he would never be taken alive by mexico's security forces. but this morning when he was arrested and not a single shot was fired and he gave himself up you know very readily. >> tell us more about la tuta and how knights knights templar was different than other cartels? i know he named his cartel and had a code of conduct. >> the knights templar are a break away organization from the fam

john holman, al jazeera mexico city. >> now u.s. has its own history of forced sterilization. historians say the eugenics organization, back in 1907 indiana was the first state to pass a law to prevent pro creation of idiots and others. days of sterilization were found up to five years ago at a california women's prison. researchers at various institutions put the total number of americans forcibly sterilized at 60,000. >>> roman polanski appeared in court today. courts are deciding whether the oscar winning producer will be extradited to the u.s. the u.s. wants him to serve jail time for raping a 13-year-old girl in los angeles in 1977. polanski has admitted to the crime. john terret looks back now on the buildup to polanski's appearance in court today. a very long-running saga. >> reporter: the drama that is director roman polanski's life is dramatic and some say distasteful at the same time. 88-year-old polanski is a huge star in his native poland, especially the city of krakov. against sending him back to face the music in the u.s. because he has paid a heavy price in the

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