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	Tijuana Cartel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Tijuana Cartel is a Mexican drug cartel from Tijuana, Baja California.
		The Tijuana Cartel was featured battling the rival Juárez Cartel in the 2001 motion picture Traffic.
		It covers the north-western part of Mexico and competes with two other major cartels: the Juárez Cartel of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua (center), and the Gulf Cartel (east).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tijuana_Cartel (96 words)

	Tijuana
		The famous battle between the Tijuana Cartel and rival Juarez Cartel was portrayed in the 2000 Hollywood movie Traffic.
		Tijuana is famous for the millions of college students who flock to its location each year in search of an easily accessed place with few inhibitions.
		Tijuana was the city in which the 1994 PRI presidential candidate Luis Donardo Colosio was assassinated.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/t/ti/tijuana.html (239 words)

	US Indicts Juarez Drug Cartel Leader
		According to Roberto Medina, special agent of Customs Services, the Juárez cartel will regain the power previously known because "the cartel remains well organized." Vicente Carrillo is currently at the same level as the Tijuana cartel run by the Felix Arrellano brothers and the Gulf cartel run by Juan García Abrego, according to Blagg.
		On October 7, U.S. authorities announced the indictment of Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, 36, believed to be the leader of the Juárez drug cartel.
		Even with doubts about his leadership qualities, and the suspected fighting that continues within the cartel as a result of the deaths of its leaders, the cartel will survive.
	www.nmsu.edu /~frontera/old_1998/nov98/1198drug.htm (239 words)

	SHADOW #41 MEXICO DRUG WAR REPORT
		The Tijuana CartelÑled by the Arellano Felix brothersÑbattles for hegemony with its junior rival, the Juarez Cartel of Amado Carrillo.
		The Mexican cartels' war for control of the cocaine traffic is resulting in a wave of killings (often accompanied by grisly tortures) of police and narcotrafficantes alike (with the line between them increasingly blurred) in Tijuana and other border towns as well as Guadalajara, Mexico's second city.
		The Federal Judicial Police (PJF) on the Tijuana Cartel's turf are equally co-opted.
	mediafilter.org /shadow/S41/S41.DrugWar.html (3227 words)

	NBC 15 :: Close to Home - Juarez drug gang forms alliances to control nearly all of U.S.-Mexico border
		Now with operations all along the Pacific Coast, the Juarez cartel has launched a two-pronged attack, with Zambada fighting the Tijuana cartel for control of the lucrative smuggling routes on the California border, and Guzman trying to take over the drug trade in Tamaulipas, across the border from Texas, officials say.
		The Juarez cartel, headquartered in the border city of the same name, across from El Paso, Texas, first flourished under the leadership of Amado Carrillo Fuentes, who died after botched plastic surgery in 1997.
		Mexican authorities said the massive offensive by the Juarez cartel has prompted the formation of a rival alliance: that of Osiel Cardenas, who allegedly ran the Tamaulipas-based Gulf cartel, and Benjamin Arellano Felix, who police say led the Tijuana-based smuggling syndicate bearing his family name.
	www.wpmi.com /news/world/story.aspx?content_id=5E7443FC-A3EE-4634-93E7-37553D8C8A20 (857 words)

	Pressure on Mexico
		The Mexican Army general who was in charge of the anti-drug campaign was recently arrested on suspicion of being bought and paid for by the Tijuana Cartel, which appeared to use the general to keep its cartel safe and hurt the competing Juarez Cartel.
		These cartels are powerful because of pervasive government corruption in Mexico.
		While the Clinton administration has recertified Mexico as having put forth sufficient efforts to fight international drug trafficking, serious shortcomings remain in that effort, and pressure on Mexico should be maintained.
	www.mtdemocrat.com /editorial/pressmex.shtml (352 words)

	frontline: murder money & mexico: tijuana cartel
		The ARELLANO-Felix Organization (AFO), often referred to as the Tijuana Cartel, is one of the most powerful and aggressive drug trafficking organizations operating from Mexico; it is undeniably the most violent.
		He allegedly controls day-to-day operations of the Tijuana Cartel, coordinating the transportation and distribution of narcotics shipments through Mexicali and Tijuana into the United States.
		He is currently incarcerated at the Almoloya De Juarez Maximum Security Prison in Toluca, Mexico, on violations of illegal arms possession, drug charges, and complicity in the murder of Cardinal Posadas Ocampo.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/mexico/etc/arellano.html (1493 words)

	Tijuana Cartel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Featured battling the rival Juarez Cartel in the 2000 Hollywood movie Traffic.
		This page was last modified 12:07, 24 Aug 2004.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Tijuana_Cartel (46 words)

	El Paso Times - Local news
		Rodolfo Carrillo Fuentes, a third brother who was part of the cartel's power structure, was shot to death on Sept. 11, 2004, in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, their birthplace.
		The Carrillo Fuentes brothers took over the Juárez cartel in 1993 after Amado Carrillo Fuentes ordered the death of Rafael Aguilar, founder of the Juárez cartel and also a former federal policeman.
		Assuming it is Carrillo Fuentes, U.S. authorities are expected to seek his extradition on charges of murder, kidnapping, money-laundering and drug-trafficking, all stemming from investigations by El Paso's FBI office, El Paso FBI Special Agent Art Werge said.
	www.borderlandnews.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050705/NEWS/507050332/1001 (1140 words)

	Reporter-News Online: Texas News -- Captured man suspected of being drug boss' lawyer
		Prosecutors believe Cardenas recently made his cartel stronger by forging an alliance with Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, the suspected head of the remnants of the powerful Juarez Cartel, which operates in the city of the same name, across the border from El Paso, Texas.
		Investigators say Cardenas, 35, inherited control of the Matamoros-based Gulf Cartel following the 1996 arrest of drug lord Juan Garcia Abrego, who is serving 11 life sentences in the United States for running a criminal empire.
		MEXICO CITY (AP) - Authorities believe a man captured as he tried to cross into the United States is a top attorney for Osiel Cardenas, the alleged head of the powerful Gulf Cartel.
	www.texnews.com /1998/2002/texas/texas_Captured_1011.html (1140 words)

	Mexico
		U.S. and Mexican officials said they believe at least 20 officers in the Chihuahua state and Ciudad Juárez police departments double as enforcers and traffickers for the Juárez drug cartel, headed by Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, Mexico's most powerful – and most wanted – drug kingpin.
		Arce's mother, described her life as a nightmare filled with constant threats from police officers.
		CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico – An organized group of state and local police officers known here as La Línea – The Line – is the target of an expanding Mexican federal investigation into the killings of scores of local women over the last decade.
	www.wola.org /Mexico/hr/ciudad_juarez/dallasmn_030104.htm (1982 words)

	Mexico & USA - Corruption and War on Drugs
		The largest is called the Juarez cartel that is headed by the infamous Amado Carrillo Fuentes, AKA "Lord of the Skies." Fuentes got the nickname because he is known to fly very big Colombian cocaine shipments into the United States.
		Fuentes is said to be the head of the Juarez drug cartel.
		Carrillo barely escaped arrest in January in the northern Mexican state of Sinaloa.
	www.emergency.com /mex-drug.htm (1660 words)

	Drug chief, 7 others, killed in gunbattles
		Paid killers shot and killed Rodolfo Carrillo Fuentes, a chief of the Ciudad Juarez cartel, at a cinema complex Saturday night in the northwestern town of Culiacan.
		"One of the dead was Rodolfo Carrillo Fuentes, known as a leader of the Juarez cartel," said Elisa Perez, spokeswoman for the Sinaloa state prosecutors' office.
		Carrillo Fuentes, 29, was the brother of Amado Carrillo Fuentes who earned the nickname "Lord of the Skies" for his use of a fleet of aircraft to ship cocaine from Colombia in the 1990s.
	www.latinamericanstudies.org /drugs/rodolfo-carrillo.htm (239 words)

	Mexican prosecutors: Suspect not drug lord - Boston.com - Latin America/Caribbean - News
		While DNA tests proved Romero was not Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, one of the leaders of the feared Juarez cartel, prosecutors said they were still holding him to probe other possible drug links.
		Mexican authorities went so far as to compare Romero's DNA to samples taken from Amado Carrillo Fuentes, Vicente's brother, who founded a drug cartel based in the border city of Ciudad Juarez but died during a botched plastic surgery in 1997.
		Mexican authorities said one of about seven DEA sources, who were not identified, testified at prosecutors' offices in San Antonio, Texas, and another came to Mexico and identified a camera image of Romero as that of Carrillo Fuentes.
	www.boston.com /news/world/latinamerica/articles/2005/07/07/mexico_admits_suspect_not_drug_lord?mode=PF (428 words)

	NZOOM - ONE News - World
		Authorities said the Juarez cartel was allowed to land small planes carrying Colombian cocaine at the airport in Cuernavaca, the Morelos state capital and a weekend and summer retreat for the wealthy.
		The two were jailed pending trial for providing protection to Vicente Carrillo, head of the notorious Juarez drug cartel, and aide Juan Jose Esparragoza, alias "El Azul" or "Mr.
		Morelos Gov. Sergio Estrada said the move was part of an overhaul of law enforcement in the state, which lies south of Mexico City, to create a police force "that responds in a manner more in line with the needs of society."
	onenews.nzoom.com /onenews_detail/0,1227,267187-1-9,00.html (428 words)

	Mexican prosecutors: Suspect not drug lord - Boston.com - Latin America/Caribbean - News
		While DNA tests proved Romero was not Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, one of the leaders of the feared Juarez cartel, prosecutors said they were still holding him to probe other possible drug links.
		Mexican authorities went so far as to compare Romero's DNA to samples taken from Amado Carrillo Fuentes, Vicente's brother, who founded a drug cartel based in the border city of Ciudad Juarez but died during a botched plastic surgery in 1997.
		She said the arrest appeared to be based on appearance alone and that she was confident Joaquin Romero would be released soon.
	www.boston.com /news/world/latinamerica/articles/2005/07/07/mexico_admits_suspect_not_drug_lord?mode=PF (428 words)

	Today's Major Drug Trafficking Organizations in Mexico
		The Juarez cartel, formerly known as the Amado Carrillo-Fuentes Organization, based in Juarez, is still involved in the trafficking of cocaine, heroin, and marijuana.
		While the full impact of Amado Carrillo-Fuentes' death has not been totally assessed, it is clear that it caused a power struggle that resulted in approximately 60 drug-related murders in the Juarez area between August 1997 and September 1998.
		Until July 4, 1997, when Amado Carrillo-Fuentes died in Mexico City after undergoing plastic surgery, he was considered the most powerful trafficker in Mexico.
	www.terrorismcentral.com /Library/Government/US/DOJ/DEA/MDTMexico.html (768 words)

	The Observer International 'Rich killers' stalk City of Lost Girls
		Ciudad Juarez is known as 'the city of the dead girls'.
		The rise of the cartel coincided with the feminicido, the female murders.
		Sandra Jordan reports from Ciudad Juarez in Mexico, where one campaigner is battling the authorities to expose the powerful men she believes to have murdered 100 women
	observer.guardian.co.uk /international/story/0,6903,1075952,00.html (1095 words)

	FOX11AZ.com News for Tucson, Arizona News State News
		Zambada is working with remnants of the Arellano Felix organization and the Juarez cartel, of which he is one of three lieutenants, according to a report prepared by the DEA's intelligence division.
		Coulson compared Zambada's organization to that of the Arellano Felix organization, which operates in the San Diego-Tijuana area even though the cartel's top two brothers, Benjamin and Ramon, were stopped in 2002.
		Zambada was indicted in January by a federal grand jury in the District of Columbia on charges he and two of his lieutenants, Vicente Zambada Niebla and Javier Torres Felix, conspired to import and distribute cocaine.
	www.fox11az.com /news/state/stories/KMSB_state_kingpin_113003.589d4ae0.html (1095 words)

	Tijuana Hotels
		The Tijuana Cartel was featured battling the rival Juárez Cartel in the 2001 motion picture ''Traffic''.
		Tijuana Bibles (also known as "eight-pagers") were pornographic comic books produced in the United States from the 1920s to the early 1960s.
		It is also possible that the name is simply an ironic coinage, Tijuana being stereotypically seen in the US as uncivilized and debauched, while the Bible, perceived as the pinnacle of chaste morality, stands as far removed from pornography as possible.
	www.artistbooking.com /trips/200/tijuana-hotels.html (1587 words)

	ICA - Carrillo
		In July 1997, a federal grand jury in Texas indicted Vincente Carrillo-Fuentes for racketeering, money laundering, conspiracy, and smuggling cocaine and marijuana into the U.S. Vincente Carrillo-Fuentes is the brother of the deceased Amado Carrillo-Fuentes, former head of the Juarez drug cartel.
		The cartel is responsible for importing billions of dollars' worth of cocaine, heroin, and other illegal drugs into the U.S. In November 1997, the U.S. requested that a provisional arrest warrant be issued by Mexico for Vincente Carrillo-Fuentes.
		If appropriate, the U.S. is prepared to protect informants by relocating them.
	www.ibb.gov /fugitives/carrillo.html (206 words)

	Drug-Lord-Epilogue-Poppa-Archives.html
		Carrillo Fuentes’ organization, which based its far-reaching operations in Ciudad Juarez, came to be known as the Juarez Cartel.
		A radically new Amado was to emerge from the knife, but his heart, weakened from a decade of cocaine abuse, did not withstand the intense, sustained surgery.
		Amado Carrillo Fuentes, Pablo Acosta’s partner for a time in Ojinaga, disappeared when Acosta was on the run.
	www.nimbynews.com /Drug-Lord-Epilogue-Poppa-Archives-1-8-99.html (4666 words)

	Struggle to fill Abrego drug cartel vacuum leads to bloody shootout
		The shooting occurred just two weeks after six people were shot to death in Ciudad Juarez, in what may be part of a turf war for command of the Juarez drug cartel.
		He was the one individual that had a very cooperative effort going on with the federation as a whole," said Phil Jordan, a retired Drug Enforcement Administration agent who investigated the Gulf cartel in the early '90s.
		"Amado Carrillo Fuentes had taken over a lot of the territory that Juan Garcia Abrego had.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/world/97/08/22/abrego.2-1.html (658 words)

	CNN - Mexico arrests top drug cartel lieutenant - June 25, 1999
		As leader of the Juarez cartel, Carrillo Fuentes was known as the "Lord of the Skies" because of his frequent use of large aircraft to move drugs.
		The office called Colin Padilla a top administrator in the Juarez cartel and a close associate of the late drug kingpin Amado Carrillo Fuentes.
		Colin Padilla is believed to have been in charge of investing Carrillo Fuentes' money.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/americas/9906/25/mexico.drug (282 words)

	Boner: A description for the boner job
		T he Juarez drug cartel is probably the most powerful gang in Mexico.
		Its founder, Amado Carrillo, earned the cinematic nickname "El SeÃ±or de los Cielos" or "Lord of the Skies," after his cartel stripped a Boeing 727 passenger jet to fly tons of cocaine to the United States.
	www.job-descriptions.org /boner.html (282 words)

	CBS News Portrait Of A Mexican Drug Lord October 24, 2003 16:36:56
		Zambada remains a bitter enemy of the Arellano Felix gang, but is close to accused Juarez cartel leader Vicente Carrillo Fuentes and has reached out to Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, a convicted drug lord who escaped from prison and specializes in building drug tunnels under the U.S. border, authorities say.
		Besides the Arellano Felix brothers, police and soldiers collared Osiel Cardenas, the alleged head of the gulf cartel, in March.
		The Arellano Felix gang was Mexico's most powerful smuggling syndicate from the late 1990s until the death of Ramon Arellano Felix and the capture of Benjamin Arellano Felix.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2003/10/24/world/main579960.shtml (1055 words)

	americas.org - Drug Traffickers Bought Bank
		Admitting that drug traffickers took advantage of the nation’s weak banking system in 1995 and 1996, government officials confirmed in mid-March that the Juárez cartel had bought Anahuac, a small domestic bank.
		All have denied any knowledge of drug cartel influences in the troubled bank.
		An inquiry has uncovered politically powerful investors, including the brother of President Ernesto Zedillo, the son and nephew of a former president, a former presidential candidate, and the head of the country’s largest labor confederation.
	www.americas.org /item_11585 (159 words)

	AllRefer.com - Mexico - Introduction Mexican Information Resource
		Following initial reports that a lone gunman was responsible for the killing, additional evidence pointed to a conspiracy involving at least half a dozen security personnel believed to be linked to a local drug cartel.
		While Gutiérrez Rebollo aggressively prosecuted several Mexican drug cartels in his ten weeks in office, he allegedly protected the Ciudad Juárez drug cartel leader, Amado Carillo Fuentes.
		The Colosio murder was the first major instance of political violence against a high-level PRI official since the assassination of President Álvaro Obregón in the 1920s.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/mexico/mexico10.html (6330 words)

	North County Times - North San Diego and Southwest Riverside County columnists
		Investigators believe Cardenas and Benjamin Arellano Felix had joined forces at La Palma, where both were serving time, and had formed a network of alliances at the Matamoros prison, as part of a plan to wage war against the rival Juarez cartel.
		Cardenas, believed to be the leader of the Gulf cartel, was arrested in 2003 during a shootout in Matamoros, across from Brownsville, Texas, and is being held at La Palma penitentiary, west of Mexico City.
		Cardenas also face charges of drug trafficking and money laundering, as well as threatening federal agents, in the federal district of southern Texas.
	www.californian.com /articles/2005/08/10/news/nation/17_24_148_9_05.txt (6330 words)

	San Francisco Peña Taurina Sol y Sombra
		In the cartel were Jorge Gutierrez, Alejandro Amaya and Pedro Gutierrez Lorenzo (El Capea).
		Pablo Hermoso de Mendoza did not appeared in Ciudad Juarez yesterday, November 14, 2004.
		$20,000 pesos fine for Pepe Garfias and two prohibition to have toros in corridas in Guadalajara because "abnormalities were found" in three of his toros on October 31, 2004.
	www.sfsolysombra.org /news/highlights/15Nov2004.html (6330 words)

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