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	Ramón Arellano Félix - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Arellano Félix was placed on the FBI's 10 most wanted list in the 1990s.
		Arellano Félix was allegedly one of the most violent members of the Tijuana cartel, being suspect in various murders.
		Arellano Félix had been linked by Mexican police to the 1997 massacre of 12 members of a family in Mazatlán.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ramon_Arellano-Felix (164 words)

	Encyclopedia: Ramon Arellano-Felix (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Arellano F lix was placed on the FBI's 10 most wanted list in the 1990s.
		Arellano F lix was allegedly one of the most violent members of the Tijuana cartel, being suspect in various murders.
		Arellano F lix had been linked by Mexican police to the 1997 massacre of 12 members of a family in Mazatl n.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ramon-Arellano_Felix (159 words)

	Parents. The Anti-Drug. -- Drugs & Terror - News
		Arellano Felix's wife and two children were present during the capture but were not taken into custody.
		Arellano Felix was later taken to an unspecified "secure location" and was scheduled to be jailed at the La Palma prison in suburban Mexico City.
		The Arellano Felix family, including six brothers and at least two sisters, is thought to have arrived in Tijuana from Sinaloa state in the mid-1980s, having been given the Baja California liquor and cigarette smuggling turf by an uncle, Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo.
	www.theantidrug.com /drugs_terror/news_tijuana.asp (1386 words)

	arellano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Arellano Felix brothers are one of the most powerful drug organizations.
		They say that Arellano brothers are really powerful, and have a lot of money." Some said that the cartel once offered a Mexican military general $1.5 million a month in bribes to "turn the other way"--an offer that was refused." (Larry King on pg.2).
		The Arellano brothers would kill anyone who can cause them problems and they don't care who you are or what you do." "They claim the Arellano ring has murdered, tortured and intimidated Mexican police commanders, prosecutors and reporters." (Larry King on CNN pg.2).
	projects.edtech.sandi.net /memorial/constantino/arellano.htm (590 words)

	Parents. The Anti-Drug. -- Drugs & Terror - News
		Rodolfo Carrillo Barragan, a law professor and attorney who represented the Arellano Felix clan in its dealings around Mexico, was found dead in the garage of his Tijuana condominium Monday night with a bullet wound to the head.
		In the 1990s, Tijuana was the scene of immense carnage as the Arellano Felix cartel consolidated its grip on the Tijuana-to-Mexicali turf, or "plaza," as the drug-smuggling corridor is referred to.
		Ramon was reportedly in Mazatlan in February to kill Zambada in revenge.
	www.theantidrug.com /drugs_terror/news_collapse.asp (1607 words)

	frontline: drug wars: the business: arellano-felix cartel: members \| PBS
		One of Ramon's responsibilities is to plan the murders of rival drug leaders, those law enforcement officials not on the take, and any members of the AFO who fall out of favor with the cartel leadership.
		Ramon was issued an arrest warrant on June 16, 1993 for drug and arms violations.
		Ramon and his brother Benjamin were indicted on May 11, 2000 for operating a drug smuggling operation and maintaining it through violence, threats and bribery.
	pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/business/afo/afomembers.html (1125 words)

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		Arellano said he tried to clear his name after the 1993 murder of Cardinal Juan Jesus Posadas Ocampo, in which the Arellano Felix gang has been implicated.
		Arellano, who recently sent a letter to the United Nations protesting the conditions of his imprisonment, said he is almost never allowed out of his cell.
		Arellano, who did not attend college, was articulate and well-informed during the interview, discussing the recent Moscow theater siege, the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and U.S. politics.
	www.partyvibe.com /articles/text_versions/U.S_called_the_loser_in_war_on_drugs.TXT (1570 words)

	News from DEA, News Releases, 09/18/97
		Ramon Eduardo Arellano-Felix is one of the leaders of the notorious Arellano-Felix Organization {AFO}, also known as the Tijuana Cartel, a violent drug trafficking organization known for its violence and ruthlessness.
		Ramon Eduardo Arellano-Felix has been charged in a sealed indictment in U.S. District Court, Southern District of California, with Conspiracy to Import Cocaine and Marijuana.
		Ramon Eduardo Arellano-Felix was born on August 31, 1964, in Mexico.
	www.usdoj.gov /dea/pubs/pressrel/pr970918.htm (250 words)

	Mexico Arrests Drug Boss
		Benjamin Arellano Felix, 49, presumed leader and financier of the ruthless Tijuana drug cartel, was arrested at 1 a.m.
		It was particularly sweet for the DEA; the uncle of the Arellano Felix brothers,
		Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo, the cartel's founder, was implicated in the 1985 torture and murder of DEA agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena.
	www.latinamericanstudies.org /drugs/boss.htm (934 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Arellano Felix cartel's new henchmen are young men from the most affluent enclaves of San Diego and Tijuana, graduates of the cities' best private schools, aggressive young businessmen of Mexican heritage who speak English without a trace of an accent and blend effortlessly into the cultures of both countries.
		Ramon, along with some of his six brothers and four sisters, moved to Tijuana in the 1980s during the adolescence of Mexico's modern-day drug cartels.
		A hitman for the Arellano Felix brothers, Antonio was killed in a drive-by shooting last year, just a month before his 23rd birthday and shortly after he tried to extricate himself from the gangs, said his brother.
	www.mit.edu /people/aaelenes/sinaloa/narco/arellano/arellano4.html (3024 words)

	CNN - Drug cartel enforcer makes most-wanted list - September 24, 1997
		"The Arellano Felix drug cartel, known as the 'Tijuana Cartel,' is considered to be one of the most vicious, ruthless criminal organizations involved in smuggling drugs into the United States," FBI Director Louis Freeh told a news conference at FBI headquarters.
		Ramon Arellano Felix also is wanted in Mexico for complicity in the 1993 assassination of the archbishop of Guadalajara.
		FBI officials said the Arellanos have recruited members of street gangs in California, and is using sophisticated technology to thwart the efforts of law enforcement agencies to gather evidence and prosecute cases.
	www.cnn.com /US/9709/24/drug.kingpin (588 words)

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		Known as the Arellano Felix Organization, Mexico's most powerful drug gang has for more than a decade used violence and money to maintain control of the lucrative Baja peninsula drug-smuggling corridor, through which a fourth of the cocaine consumed in the United States is funneled.
		Ramon Arellano Felix, the enforcer who was on the FBI's 10 most wanted list, is dead, killed in a February shootout with police in Mazatlan.
		U.S. and Mexican officials insist that Hodoyan's brother, Alfredo, was among the Arellano Felix assassins--a young man from a well-off Tijuana family who was one of the so-called Narco Juniors.
	www.mapinc.org /tlcnews/v02/n938/a02.htm (1246 words)

	Observer \| World's biggest drug baron killed in Mexico
		In the photo of Felix on FBI posters, he has a chubby face and sports a lengthy hairdo that went out of fashion years ago.
		Fearless and supremely confident Ramon once tested a new gun by simply shooting the first person he passed in his car, confident no one in his home town would dare report the crime.
		Ramon Arellano-Felix is personally believed to have been behind the killings of police commanders, lawyers, judges, pregnant women, even children roused from their beds and forced to line up with their families as gunmen riddled them with bullets.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4371477-102275,00.html (599 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Mexico -- A cartel's power play
		Benjamín Arellano Félix, left, the CEO of the Arellano Félix brother's cartel, was arrested in 2002.
		Ramón Arellano, who was said to be the cartel's main enforcer, was killed in a shootout in Mazatlan, where he had apparently gone to kill Zambada.
		Others say the Arellanos sent a ghoulish message to their rivals in October when the bodies of two men believed to have been working for Zambada were hung from a bridge at a busy Tijuana intersection, shocking early morning commuters.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/mexico/20031208-9999_1n8cartels.html (1759 words)

	CNN.com - Mexican police arrest suspected drug kingpin - March 10, 2002
		DEA Administrator Asa Hutchinson also confirmed the death of Arellano's brother, Ramon, in a shootout February 10 in the Mexican resort town of Mazatlan.
		Based in Tijuana, the AFO is responsible for transporting, importing and distributing multi-ton quantities of cocaine and marijuana as well as large quantities of heroin and methamphetamine, the DEA said.
		Ramon Arellano-Felix, believed to be the most violent brother, organized and coordinated security for the AFO, according to the DEA.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/americas/03/09/mexico.drugs (210 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Either way, the death of Ramon Arellano Felix on Feb. 10, followed by the capture of his brother Benjamin, 50, in Puebla on March 9, was stunning proof that the luck of the world's most wanted drug traffickers had taken a wrong turn after a decade of seeming invincibility.
		Throughout the 1990s, the Arellano Felix gang had maintained an iron grip on the smuggling of cocaine, heroin, marijuana and methamphetamines up the Tijuana-San Diego corridor.
		The demise of the brothers, literally or figuratively, made law enforcement officials happy and hopeful that the government of President Vicente Fox was finally delivering on its promise of a crackdown on drug trafficking.
	www.angelfire.com /ego2/copy2ak2/7felix.htm (333 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Mexico -- Judge approves U.S. request to extradite Arellano Felix family member
		In February, a U.S. extradition request kept Arellano Felix in prison even though he was nearing the end of a 10-plus-year sentence in one of Mexico's toughest prisons, La Palma, for stockpiling restricted weapons.
		Arellano Felix is the eldest brother in a family accused of running a drug smuggling gang bearing its name that U.S. Mexican authorities say moves tons of cocaine and marijuana into the United States from its operations base in Tijuana.
		Arellano Felix was arrested in December 1993 in Tijuana and was convicted under Mexico's tough weapons laws rather than of drug offenses.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/mexico/20040426-2008-mexico-us-arellanofelix.html (340 words)

	CBS News \| Portrait Of A Mexican Drug Lord \| October 24, 2003 16:36:56
		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.
		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.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2003/10/24/world/main579960.shtml (1055 words)

	BBC News \| AMERICAS \| Mexican drug lord 'killed'
		Ramon Arellano Felix's picture appears next to Osama Bin Laden's on the FBI's list of most wanted fugitives - but now Mexican officials fear he has disappeared forever.
		The man who was killed was carrying false a ID But before they had time to identify the body, a "relative" of Arellano Felix picked it up from a funeral home and had it cremated.
		US and Mexican officials said that Arellano Felix and his brother Benjamin headed the powerful Tijuana Cartel, which is held responsible for distributing tonnes of cocaine and marijuana in the US.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1840000/1840083.stm (354 words)

	Worldandnation: In Tijuana, a cartel comes tumbling down
		In 1989, the Arellano Felix Organization -- seven brothers and four sisters -- inherited the Tijuana cartel from an uncle, Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo, who was arrested in the murder of DEA agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena.
		In 1993, the cartel was implicated in the slaying of a Roman Catholic cardinal.
		The United States hopes to extradite Benjamin Arellano Felix, and some, including the DEA administrator, argue that with Ramon and Benjamin gone, the cartel is dead.
	www.sptimes.com /2002/03/17/Worldandnation/In_Tijuana__a_cartel_.shtml (1538 words)

	USATODAY.com - Mexico announces arrest of top drug trafficker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		He said Arellano Felix was captured without gunfire and that he'd been taken to "a safe location" in Mexico City.
		Arrelano Felix had been using the alias of "Licenciado Sanchez." "Licenciado" is a common honorific here, referring to a person's professional degree, Vega said.
		Prosecutors say the gang was one of several that emerged from the remnants of a drug empire run by Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo, who was arrested in 1989 and is imprisoned on drug charges.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2002/03/09/mexico.htm (684 words)

	Narco News Premiers "The Ballad of Ramón Arellano Félix"
		Four years ago, Amado Carillo, "the Lord of the Skies," was reported dead after a botched plastic-surgery operation, but rumors that the alleged Juárez cartel boss faked his death and lives to laugh about it have reappeared with frequency.
		According to multiple press reports, the rumor that Ramón Arellano Félix is dead was started by United States officials.
		But there is a detail not included in the file: the mysterious man who reclaimed the body of the presumed Ramón Arellano Félix ordered that it all be done rapidly and with discretion.
	www.narconews.com /narcocorrido1.html (1329 words)

	Print Message (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		On February 10, 2002, Ramon Arellano Felix was killed in a gunbattle with Mexican police in Mazatlan while under the alias of Jorge Perez Lopez.
		On early Saturday, March 9, 2002 soldiers raiding a house in central Mexico captured Benjamin Arellano Felix, 50, the brother of the gang's co-leader, Ramon Arellano Felix.
		Attorney General Ramon Macedo de la Concha told a news confrerence that "the cartel of the Arellanos has been completely dismantled." Officials released a videotape of Benjamin confirming his brother's death and Macedo said other new evidence confirmed it.
	www.suite101.com /print_message.cfm/investing/68672/617225 (420 words)

	Ramon Arellano-Felix
		Ramon Arellano-Felix (1964-2002) was a Mexican whom authorities linked to the Tijuana drug cartel.
		Arellano-Felix was placed on the FBIs 10 most wanted list in the 1990s.
		The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ra/Ramon_Arellano-Felix.html (116 words)

	The War on Drugs : who's winning?
		Authorities say Arellano was the capo of capos, the brains behind an organization that controlled a third or more of the cocaine traffic into the United States and spent countless millions to buy protection from police, judges and generals.
		Told of Arellano's comments, Donald J. Thornhill Jr., a DEA spokesman in San Diego, where for years there has been a joint DEA-FBI task force devoted solely to the Arellano Felix organization, said Arellano will face a mountain of evidence at his upcoming trials.
		Arellano, whose wife and four children were born in the United States, also faces drug charges in the United States.
	www.cocaine.org /crime/felix.html (1590 words)

	san diego magazine archives
		The Arellanos also are believed to have been involved in the Tijuana assassination of presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio in 1994.
		An Arellano associate once infiltrated the organization of a Fuentes lieutenant, seducing his wife and persuading her to run away with him—after taking $7 million of her husband’s money.
		The Arellano man then had the woman decapitated and sent her head in a box to the Fuentes lieutenant.
	www.sandiego-online.com /issues/june99/blood.shtml (3126 words)

	News-Star OnlineDrug lords arrested 03/10/02
		U.S. Drug Enforcement Administrator Asa Hutchinson explains the arrest of drug trafficker Benjamin Arellano Felix Saturday, March 9, 2002 in Washington.
		An altar to Arellano Felix's brother Ramon was found in the house, suggesting he was killed a Feb. 10 police shootout in Mazatlan, as officials have suspected, a government statement said.
		Ramon Arellano Felix is on the FBI's 10 most wanted list with a $2 million reward for his capture.
	www.news-star.com /stories/031002/New_56.shtml (225 words)

	[Deathwatch] Ramon Arellano Felix, Mexican drug lord, 37 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Assistant Attorney General Juan Jorge Campos said Mexican authorities compared blood taken from Arellano Felix's jailed brother, Benjamin, with DNA evidence collected from the shootout at the Pacific coast resort of Mazatlan on Feb. 10.
		On Saturday, Mexican troops captured Benjamin Arellano Felix in a raid on a house in Puebla, east of Mexico City.
		Authorities said police found an altar honoring Ramon's memory, and that Benjamin Arellano Felix told interrogators his brother was dead.
	slick.org /pipermail/deathwatch/2002-March/000075.html (370 words)

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