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There are several Mexican-folk ballads (narco-corridos) that narrate the Tijuana cartel exploits. A fictional "Tijuana cartel" headed by a character named Obregon was featured battling a fictional "Juarez cartel" in the 2000 motion picture Traffic. The cartel was portrayed as the Avendanos brothers in Univision's Netflix series El Chapo.
Things appeared to return back to normal as the hours-long traffic to go through border checkpoints to the United States were back.
Oswaldo Zavala is a Mexican academic and writer whose provocatively titled 2022 book — "Drug Cartels Do Not Exist: Narcotrafficking in U.S. and Mexican Culture" — argues for a bold reframing ...
US federal agents have uncovered a sophisticated “narco tunnel” equipped with electricity and a working ventilation system that smugglers had been using between El Paso, Texas, and Juarez, Mexico.
When the Tijuana Cartel leader Eduardo Arellano Félix was arrested on October 25, 2008, a violent power struggle erupted between Teodoro García and Luis Fernando Sánchez Arellano over the leadership of the Tijuana cartel. [16] [17] Teodoro García left the organization, formed his own gang, and forged an uneasy alliance with the rival ...
The Tijuana Cartel, also known as the Arellano Félix Organization, was once among Mexico's most powerful. [191] It is based in Tijuana, one of the most strategically important border towns in Mexico, [192] and continues to export drugs even after weakening by an internal war in 2009. Due to infighting, arrests and the deaths of some of its top ...
On 28 January, army personnel from the Army's 5th special forces battalion and 2nd Motorized Cavalry Regiment succeeded in the arrest of Alfredo Araujo Avila a.k.a. El Popeye in Tijuana. Alfredo Avila is known to be one of the most active assassins from the 1980s to the early 1990s of the Tijuana Cartel in the states of Sinaloa and Baja ...
Fuerza Regida announced it was canceling an upcoming concert in Tijuana early Monday evening, hours after a handwritten banner with an alleged threat from a cartel was found in the border city.