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The Tijuana cartel is present in at least 15 Mexican states, with important areas of operation in Tijuana, Mexicali, Tecate, and Ensenada in Baja California, in parts of Sinaloa, [35] and in Zacatecas. After the death in 1997 of the Juárez Cartel's Amado Carrillo Fuentes, the Tijuana Cartel attempted to gain a foothold in Sonora. [9]
Eduardo Arellano Félix (born October 11, 1956) is a Mexican drug trafficker, brother of Benjamín, Ramón, Javier and sister, Enedina, all drug traffickers.The Arellano-Félix Organization, also known as the Tijuana Cartel, has been responsible for numerous murders and the smuggling of thousands of tons of marijuana, cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine for more than a decade.
Relatives Juan Manuel Hernández Niebla (uncle) Mirelle A. Hernández ( July 4, 1975 – December 5, 2021), a resident of Chula Vista, California , [ 5 ] was a makeup artist who worked on the television shows Narcos: México , Fear the Walking Dead , Ingobernable and Tijuana . [ 2 ]
Francisco Rafael Arellano Félix (24 October 1949 – 18 October 2013) was a Mexican drug lord and former leader of the Tijuana Cartel, a drug trafficking organization.He was the oldest of seven brothers and headed the criminal organization early in the 1990s alongside them.
Caro Quintero's Guadalajara Cartel fell apart in the early 1990s, and its remaining leaders went on to establish drug trafficking organizations: in Tijuana, a large family formed the Tijuana Cartel; in Chihuahua, a group controlled by Amado Carrillo Fuentes formed the Juárez Cartel; and the remaining faction moved to Sinaloa and formed the ...
Enedina Arellano Félix was born in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, on April 12, 1961, in a family of drug traffickers. [6] In 1977, when she was 16, Enedina reportedly harbored a dream of becoming the Mazatlán Carnival Queen but abandoned it after her two brothers, Ramón and Benjamín, were wanted by the United States and the Mexican government.
Relatives who had made their lives in San Diego, raising American children, could not travel to Tijuana because they had not become U.S. citizens and might not be allowed re-entry. Others lost their U.S. visas—for, say, a run-in with the law as teenagers—and moved to Tijuana, unable to secure the paperwork to return to San Diego.
Benjamín Arellano Félix (born 12 March 1952) [1] is a Mexican former drug lord who alongside his brothers founded and led the Tijuana Cartel or "Arellano-Félix Organization” until his arrest in March 2002.