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Guadalupe spent more than three decades in the drug business, working for Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, the world’s most famous drug lord, and his Sinaloa cartel.
"Today, the FBI and DEA arrested two alleged cartel leaders who have eluded law enforcement for decades. Ismael Mario 'El Mayo' Zambada García and Joaquin Guzman Lopez, son of El Chapo, will now ...
Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela (1939–2022) was formerly one of the leaders of the Cali Cartel, based in the city of Cali. Along with his brother Miguel, he ran the Cali drug cartel in the mid-1990s. [34] On 9 June 1995, he was arrested by the Colombian National Police (CNP) during a house raid in the city.
His name surged into international headlines in 2018 and 2019 during the high-profile trial of Guzmán, whose lawyer argued that Zambada was the cartel’s true leader.
Guzmán's leadership of the cartel also brought immense wealth and power; Forbes ranked him as one of the most powerful people in the world between 2009 and 2013, [12] while the Drug Enforcement Administration estimated that he matched the influence and wealth of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar.
The 21 June 2011 arrest of José de Jesús Méndez Vargas, [10] a.k.a. "El Chango", brought the total to twenty-one captured or killed. [11] [12] On 4 November 2011, Francisco Hernández García was captured. A leader of the Zetas drug cartel, Raúl Hernández Lechuga was captured on 12 December 2011.
The notorious Colombian assassin known as La Muñeca (Spanish for “The Doll”) has finally been arrested after committing a series of gang-related murders. Karen Julieth Ojeda Rodríguez was ...
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, [40] [41] [42] or the Pacific Cartel, [43] is a large, drug trafficking transnational organized crime syndicate and U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization based in Culiacán ...