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Article: Mexican drug lord Arellano Felix sentenced to life in prison
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- November 5, 2007
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Asking forgiveness in two nations, Mexican drug lord Francisco Javier Arellano Felix was sentenced Monday to life in prison for running the notoriously violent cartel that bears his family's name.
In a letter, translated in English and read by his lawyer, Arellano Felix asked people on both sides of the border to forgive his "wrongful decisions and criminal conduct."
"I am very remorseful and personally accept responsibility for my actions," he wrote. "If I had the power to change and undo the things that I have done, I would."
Arellano Felix, 37, was captured after a manhunt by U.S. authorities in an August 2006 raid on a sportfishing ...