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Thank you. It's Tuesday, 4 February.

Welcome to the PDB afternoon bulletin.

I'm Mike Baker, your eyes and ears on the world stage.

All right, let's get briefed.

First, we'll begin in Mexico, where authorities are beginning to crack down on the country's violent drug cartels following President Trump's pressure campaign on Mexican

President Claudia Scheinbaum. Then, after President Trump imposed a 10% tariff on Chinese imports,

Xi Jinping's government has announced sweeping retaliatory tariffs

of their own, targeting key American industries and sparking fears of a new trade war. But first,

our afternoon spotlight. It looks like we might be seeing the first signs of a cartel crackdown

by Mexican authorities, at least near the U.S. southern border.

Late Monday, Mexican law enforcement announced the arrest of cartel leader Ricardo Gonzalez

Sosera, better known as El Ricky or Amando R. He was taken into custody in Nuevo Laredo, a key

cartel stronghold sitting right across the Rio Grande from Laredo, Texas.

Now, El Rickey, just 27 years old, was the leader of Cartel del Noreste, one of the most violent and aggressive Mexican drug cartels.

If you're not familiar with them, CDN, as they're known, is an offshoot of the once-dominant

Los Zetas cartel.

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