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The origins of the Juárez Cartel and its former leaders have also been portrayed in the drama web series Narcos: Mexico (2018–2021). The Australian ABC documentary La Frontera (2010) described the social impact of the cartel in the region. A fictional Juarez Cartel appears in Tom Clancy's novel Against All Enemies (2011). It is secretly led ...
But it is unclear whether the NJC is composed solely of former members of La Línea and elements of the Juarez cartel or of numerous gangs that have aligned, even temporarily, to expropriate the Sinaloa cartel from Ciudad Juárez. [55]
The Mexican drug war began in 2006. Ciudad Juárez is a large city in Chihuahua which is next to the United States border, opposite El Paso in Texas. [1] Mexican drug cartels have carried out many attacks in Juárez, including a prison riot in March 2009, an attack on a rehab center in September 2009 and a massacre in January 2010.
In 1996, the danger culminated when a Juárez drug cartel hit team was arrested near his El Paso home in a foiled kidnapping and murder plot. Carrillo was with the Border Patrol from 1971 until ...
Juárez drug cartel boss "El 80" pleads guilty in a case featuring "El Brad Pitt," informants and marijuana trafficking over a decade ago. ... Following the last known location of the GPS tracker ...
Cartel members massacre 16 teenagers, outraging Ciudad Juarez residents. Guerrero mass graves: June 2010 Taxco, Guerrero 55 Cartels massacre civilians 2010 Chihuahua shootings: June 10, 2010 Second floor, Templo Cristiano Fe y Vida (Christian Faith and Life Temple), Chihuahua: 19 4 Wounded Nuevo León mass graves: June 25, 2010 Nuevo León ~70
La Linea and the Juarez Cartel are known for inflicting violence on innocent people, and U.S. authorities have tried to pursue them — in July 2022, a North Dakota federal judge ordered La Linea to pay $4.6 billion in monetary damages to the families of nine Americans killed in an ambush in Northern Mexico on Nov. 4, 2019.
With its strip malls, pristine roads and American fast-food restaurants, Ciudad Juarez looks on the surface more like the U.S. than it does Mexico. But after three years of escalating violence and ...