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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.
[2] Currently, the criminal organizations in Mexico earn a substantial amount of money from extortion and retail drug sales, known in Spanish as "narco-menudeo." [ 3 ] Unlike the transnational drug trade , which can be carried out without the aid and protection of authorities, local police forces are more likely to be aware of the local ...
The US military has significantly increased its surveillance of Mexican drug cartels over the past two weeks, with sophisticated spy planes flying at least 18 missions over the southwestern US and ...
La Barredora ("The Sweeper Truck") is a criminal gang based in the Mexican resort city of Acapulco, Guerrero and its surrounding territories. The criminal group came into existence during the rapid decentralization of Mexico's drug trafficking organizations and as a split-off group of the Beltrán-Leyva Cartel. [1]
Rafael Caro Quintero was born in the community of La Noria, Badiraguato, Sinaloa, on October 24, 1952. [5] His parents, Emilio Caro Payán and Hermelinda Quintero, had twelve children; he was the oldest son.
13 August - Roberto Domínguez Trejo, better known as “Beto Trejo”, the lead singer of a narcocorrido band called "Los Hijos del Cartel" (sons of the cartel) is assassinated in his car while at a gas station in Tijuana. His wife and child were also in the car but unharmed.
[2] [3] His influence and operations penetrated throughout the United States, Mexico, and several other European, Central American, and South American countries. [4] In Mexico, he was known as the "King of Crystal" for his domination of crystal methamphetamine production and trafficking.
Knights Templar Cartel [1] [2] The Milenio Cartel , or Cártel de los Valencia (Valencia family Cartel), was a Mexican criminal organization based in Michoacán . It relocated to Jalisco in the early 2000s.