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Henry Loaiza Ceballos aka El Alacrán (The Scorpion) is a former Colombian drug trafficker and a member of the Cali Cartel.Loaiza was mainly in charge of the military apparatus of the organization, but was also involved in the shipment of illegal drugs.
A Mexican drug cartel has blamed five rogue members for the deadly kidnapping of four Americans in Matamoros. The Gulf cartel’s Scorpion faction made the claims in a letter obtained by the ...
The most notable were the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) headed by Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes "El Mencho" (who suspected the Sinaloa cartel had betrayed its leaders ) [69] [70] [71] and La Resistencia headed by Ramiro Pozos "El Molca" who switched alliances to form a brief alliance with Los Zetas (La Resistencia was founded by Sinaloa to ...
The Gulf Cartel, a drug cartel based in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, was founded in the 1930s by Juan Nepomuceno Guerra. [15] [16] Originally known as the Matamoros Cartel (Spanish: Cártel de Matamoros), [17] the Gulf Cartel initially smuggled alcohol and other illegal goods into the U.S. [16] Once the Prohibition era ended, the criminal group controlled gambling houses, prostitution rings ...
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Operación Escorpión (Operation Scorpion), was a military operation conducted by the Mexican Secretariat of National Defense, from August 28 to October 31, 2011, in the states of Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas and San Luis Potosí. The prime objective was to weaken the Zetas and Gulf cartels.
Some members of the Cali Cartel accused of participating in this massacre were Henry Loaiza-Ceballos "aka The Scorpion" and Juan Carlos Ortiz Escobar "aka Knife". [5] [6] The case was first officially acknowledged and investigated in the mid-1990s under Colombian President Ernesto Samper (1994–1998); however, no one was ever tried for the ...
The Sinaloa Cartel (Spanish: Cártel de Sinaloa, pronounced [ˈkaɾtel ðe sinaˈloa], CDS, after the native Sinaloa region), also known as the Guzmán-Loera Organization, the Federation, the Sinaloa Cartel, [4] [5] [6] or the Pacific Cartel, [7] is a large, terrorist transnational organized crime syndicate based in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico, [8] that specializes in illegal drug trafficking ...