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  2. Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán - Wikipedia

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    This influence helped the Cartel and its allies control and protect vital maritime and air transshipment destinations between the United States and South America. [95] His drug empire made Guzmán a billionaire, and he was ranked the 10th richest man in Mexico and 1,140th in the world in 2011, with a net worth of roughly US$1 billion. [96]

  3. José Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha - Wikipedia

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    By 1987, animosity started with the Cali Cartel, his previous partners in MAS, as he attempted to move in on the New York City market. The animosity turned into an open cartel war in 1988, moved mostly by the personal vendetta of Pablo Escobar against Pacho Herrera. As the military leader of the cartel, Rodríguez Gacha was instrumental in many ...

  4. Leonidas Vargas - Wikipedia

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    Leonidas Vargas Vargas (May 13, 1949 – January 8, 2009), also known as "El Viejo" and "The King of Caqueta", was a Colombian drug lord who headed a multimillion-dollar cocaine empire associated with the Medellín Cartel and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Vargas became one of the richest drug lords in Colombia, as well as ...

  5. Are Mexican drug cartels as powerful as people think? - AOL

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    The concept of the cartel was pushed by the DEA in the late 1970s to show the U.S. public that these organizations had evolved in power and reach, and they had become very dangerous to national ...

  6. Ecuador arrests leader of powerful cartel targeted by U.S. - AOL

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    A leader of one of Ecuador's biggest crime syndicates Los Lobos was arrested Friday at his home in the coastal city of Portoviejo, the military said. Carlos D, widely known by his alias "El Chino ...

  7. Javier Torres Félix - Wikipedia

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    Javier Torres Félix (born 19 October 1960) is a Mexican drug lord and former high-ranking leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, a drug trafficking organization. He is the brother of the deceased drug lord Manuel Torres Félix and the former right-hand man of Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, a top cartel leader. He was released on parole in May 2024.

  8. From jail, drug lord 'El Mayo' Zambada tells wild story of ...

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    Zambada, a Sinaloa cartel founder, was long believed to have police, soldiers, political leaders in his pocket. In a rare public statement, he acknowledges those ties -- and contradicts Mexican ...

  9. 1 May 2015 Jalisco attacks - Wikipedia

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    The attention shifted from El Mencho on 15 July 2016, when the suspected Sinaloa Cartel leader Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, once on Mexico's most-wanted list, escaped from prison a second time. This event embarrassed the Mexican government, which reallocated resources to apprehend El Chapo.