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Edgar Valdez Villarreal (born August 11, 1973), also known as La Barbie ("The Barbie"), is a Mexican-American former drug lord and high-ranking lieutenant of the Beltrán Leyva Cartel.
The vehicle the drug traffickers were in then caught on fire, and two of the gunmen burned to death. [12] The third one died on the sidewalk. According to PGR , the three gunmen that were killed were members of Los Negros, a group of hitmen under the tutelage of Joaquín Guzmán Loera (a.k.a. El Chapo ) and of the Sinaloa Cartel . [ 12 ]
Jorge Eduardo Costilla Sánchez (born 1 August 1971) is a former Mexican drug lord and top leader of the criminal drug trafficking organization known as the Gulf Cartel. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He was among Mexico's most-wanted drug lords , until his arrest in 2012.
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]
On January 18, 2011, José Jorge Balderas Garza, known as "JJ", the lieutenant and financial operator of the Valdez Villarreal faction, was captured. On September 12, 2010, Sergio Villarreal Barragán was arrested in the city of Puebla, east of Mexico City. [48] Héctor Beltrán Leyva was captured by the Mexican Armed Forces on October 1, 2014 ...
After Kilroy was confirmed dead, the media framed the drug group and their religious practices as Satanist. [7] [133] For the most part, the U.S. media labeled the group as Satanist and gave little mention to the drug-related violence that was widespread in northern Mexico, thus failing to provide a wider picture of what happened at Matamoros ...
Drug-related assassinations are not solely limited to local and low-profile politicians. [2] As demonstrated with the killing of Rodolfo Torre Cantú in June 2010, a candidate for the PRI who was running for the state government of Tamaulipas, drug lords are interfering with Mexico's election process.
The most-wanted of the 37 drug lords was Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán Loera, for whom Mexican and U.S. governments offered a total bounty of US$7 million. [6] He was captured on 22 February 2014 in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, where he was staying at a hotel. [7]