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The existence of Malverde is not historically verified. [8]Malverde is said to have been a carpenter, tailor, or railway worker. [1] It was not until his parents died of either hunger or a curable disease, depending on the version of the story, that Jesús Malverde began a life of banditry.
A religious bust of Jesús Malverde, a popular narco-saint, with a marijuana leaf-shaped necklace.. Narco-saints (Spanish: Narcosantos) are Catholic Saints and folk saints that are venerated (or sometimes worshipped) by criminals such as money launderers, smugglers, and drug traffickers, particularly in the United States and Latin America.
Jose Figueroa Agosto (born "José David Figueroa Agosto"; June 28, 1964), also known as "Junior Capsula" and "the Pablo Escobar of the Caribbean", is a Puerto Rican former drug trafficker. [2]
Pedro Avilés Pérez (April 11, 1931 – September 15, 1978), also known as "El León de la Sierra" (English: "The Mountain Lion"), [3] [4] was a Mexican drug lord in the state of Sinaloa beginning in the late 1960s. He is considered to be the first generation of major Mexican drug smugglers of marijuana. [5]
The Martínez Familia has been called the Puerto Rican mafia and a cartel. Quitoni and Julio García, who were very good friends, started the Puerto Rican mafia to reportedly bring their family out of poverty.
José Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha (14 May 1947 – 15 December 1989), also known by the nicknames Don Sombrero (English: Mister Hat) and El Mexicano (English: The Mexican), was a Colombian drug lord who was one of the leaders of the Medellín Cartel along with the Ochoa brothers and Pablo Escobar.
Adolfo de Jesús Constanzo (November 1, 1962 – May 6, 1989) was a Cuban-American serial killer, drug dealer and cult leader who led an infamous drug-trafficking and occult gang in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, that was dubbed the Narcosatanists (Spanish: Los Narcosatánicos) by the media. [1] His cult members nicknamed him The Godfather (El ...
The Beltrán Leyva Organization (BLO), also known as the Beltrán Leyva Cartel [2] (Spanish: Cártel de los Beltrán Leyva, [3] pronounced [ˈkaɾtel ðe los βelˈtɾan ˈlejβa], CBL), [4] was a Mexican drug cartel and organized crime syndicate, formerly headed by the five Beltrán Leyva brothers: Marcos Arturo, Carlos, Alfredo, Mario Alberto, and Héctor.