The idea of using a trailer was dreamed up by the playwright Ed Cardona Jr.
Cardona and Reta could move freely and easily back and forth across the border with Mexico.
In Cardona's interrogation tape, there are clues that "Los Zetas" are reaching deeper and deeper into the United States.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Maria Cardona.
Prosecutor and investigators say Reta and Cardona were recruited into a group called "Los Zetas, " a group made up of former members of the Mexican special military forces.
The cases against Cardona and Reta -- both are in prison serving long prison sentences for murder -- shed new light into the workings of the drug cartels.
Several weeks later, Francisca met 15-year-old Xavier Cardona at school.
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Just hours before they were arrested, federal authorities taped a phone conversation between them in which Cardona brags about killing 14-year-old Inez Villareal and his cousin, a Cardona rival.
Vargas Cardona, alias "Sebastian, " is the leader of a group called the Oficina de Envigado, once affiliated with the kingpin Escobar and now a drug trafficking organization in its own right.
"That might have worked a year and a half ago, but there's now a credibility gap among Latino voters -- he hasn't delivered on the promises of 2000, " said Maria Cardona, vice president for media relations and director of the Hispanic Project for the New Democrat Network.
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