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This influence helped the Cartel and its allies control and protect vital maritime and air transshipment destinations between the United States and South America. [95] His drug empire made Guzmán a billionaire, and he was ranked the 10th richest man in Mexico and 1,140th in the world in 2011, with a net worth of roughly US$1 billion. [96]
The concept of the cartel was pushed by the DEA in the late 1970s to show the U.S. public that these organizations had evolved in power and reach, and they had become very dangerous to national ...
Amado Carrillo Fuentes (/ f u ˈ ɛ n t ə s /; December 17, 1954 – July 5, 1997) was a Mexican drug lord.He seized control of the Juárez Cartel after assassinating his boss Rafael Aguilar Guajardo.
Rafael "Rafa" Caro Quintero (born October 24, 1952) is a Mexican drug lord who co-founded the now-disintegrated Guadalajara Cartel with Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo and other drug traffickers in the late 1970s. He is the brother of fellow drug trafficker Miguel Caro Quintero, founder and former leader of the defunct Sonora Cartel.
For much of his career as a federal drug agent, Ray Donovan had a singular focus: the capture of Mexican cartel boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.When Guzman was finally arrested in early 2014 ...
Two top leaders of the Mexican Sinaloa drug cartel have been taken into custody by United States authorities to face charges for their role in leading the group's vast drug trafficking enterprise ...
Osiel Cárdenas Guillén (born 18 May 1967) is a former Mexican drug lord who was the leader of the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas. Originally a mechanic in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Guillén eventually became involved in the illegal drug trade the Gulf Cartel before becoming its leader in 1997 by assassinating drug lord Salvador Gómez Herrera.
Zambada, a Sinaloa cartel founder, was long believed to have police, soldiers, political leaders in his pocket. In a rare public statement, he acknowledges those ties -- and contradicts Mexican ...