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	ISN Security Watch - Toppling the Tijuana Cartel 'dynasty'
		A 2,400-foot-long tunnel, extending from a warehouse near the Tijuana airport to a large warehouse in the industrial zone of southern San Diego, was discovered in late January 2006.
		The deconstruction of the Tijuana Cartel, which has existed since the late 1970s, would be a great success for the DEA and Mexican authorities, but it would create a vacuum of power that will certainly be filled.
		The demise of the Tijuana Cartel may not happen with the arrest of Javier Arellano-Felix, but the cartel is arguably one step closer to dissolution, and Mexican organized crime one step closer to becoming the mega-organization that singularly and expertly controls smuggling operations into the US.
	www.isn.ethz.ch /news/sw/details.cfm?ID=16614 (1309 words)

	Tijuana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tijuana is the largest city in the Mexican state of Baja California and the seat of the municipality of the same name.
		Tijuana is particularly famous among U.S. youth, who cross the border in order to drink alcohol prior to their twenty-first birthday (Mexico's legal drinking age is eighteen).
		Due to Tijuana's proximity to the USA and its cheap labor, it is an attractive city for companies to establish extensive industrial parks comprised of maquiladoras, factories situated near the border to produce for export.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tijuana (1819 words)

	WashingtonPost.com: Drug Traffickers Thrive Amid Terror (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Tijuana cartel hires hundreds of gang members from San Diego and Los Angeles to transport drugs, steal cars and assassinate law enforcement officials and other enemies of the mafia bosses, according to authorities on both sides of the border.
		To facilitate their operations, the Tijuana mafia has bought sources and protectors at every level of the Mexican government, according to the extensive interviews with some of the cartel's top lieutenants that are included in the hundreds of pages of documents filed in the San Diego court.
		In 1992, a member of the Tijuana cartel was planted as a spy in a rival organization attempting to muscle in on the territory.
	www.mit.edu /people/aaelenes/sinaloa/narco/arellano/arellano5.htm (1831 words)

	Mexican Police Linked to Tijuana Cartel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Tijuana and Tecate, were snared in a sting operation that officials said today signaled the continuing disintegration of the violent
		Cartel members are believed to have killed hundreds of people since the 1980s, but rarely were their actions punished.
		According to several Mexican media, the police were fingered by a recently arrested top lieutenant in the Tijuana cartel.
	www.latinamericanstudies.org /drugs/cartel.htm (414 words)

	Tijuana Cartel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Tijuana Cartel is a Mexican drug cartel from Tijuana, Baja California.
		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).
		The Tijuana Cartel was featured battling the rival Juárez Cartel in the 2001 motion picture Traffic.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tijuana_Cartel (96 words)

	Tijuana
		Tijuana was the city in which the 1994 PRI presidential candidate Luis Donardo Colosio was assassinated.
		Tijuana's International Airport (General Abelardo L. Rodriguez International Airport) is served by Mexicana, Aeromexico, and Aero California.
		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.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/t/ti/tijuana.html (239 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Latin America/Caribbean / Tijuana Seeks to Shake Sin City Image (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) - With its rowdy tequila bars, massage parlors and betting shops, the Mexican frontier city of Tijuana has long had a reputation as sin city for weekend revelers from the United States.
		He went on to set up a hall of fame in the arrival area of Tijuana's international airport, to present newcomers to the city with a gallery of locally born notables and their achievements.
		Tijuana was named as one of the world's eight "most creative centers of culture and vitality" by Newsweek magazine in September 2002 -- alongside cities such as Austin, Texas, and Gateshead, in Britain.
	www.boston.com /news/world/latinamerica/articles/2004/06/09/tijuana_seeks_to_shake_sin_city_image?pg=full (967 words)

	Cartel Crackdown Bullish Sign for North America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The arrest of Tijuana cartel drug lord Benjamín Arellano Félix is a signal achievement, but not as a victory in the "war on drugs." It will not reduce drug addiction or violence on either side of the border.
		In effect, PRI administrations were acting as enforcers for the Tijuana cartel, then using their crackdowns to hoodwink Washington into believing they were cooperating.
		Benjamín was the Tijuana cartel's mastermind, Ramón its chief enforcer.
	www.laprensa-sandiego.org /archieve/march15-02/analysis.htm (718 words)

	Mexican Police Linked to Tijuana Cartel (washingtonpost.com)
		Until recently, the cartel headed by the Arellano Felix brothers operated with near impunity in and around Tijuana, moving billions of dollars of cocaine into the United States.
		U.S. and Mexican federal anti-drug officials have long said that the Tijuana cartel could not have sustained itself for so many years without state and local police being paid to look the other way, escorting cocaine shipments and sometimes acting as bodyguards for traffickers.
		The sting operation came a month after the arrest of Benjamin Arellano Felix, the cartel's presumed leader, and two months after the death of his brother, Ramon Arellano Felix, the gang's feared enforcer, who was shot to death Feb. 10 in the Pacific resort city of Mazatlan.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A34615-2002Apr11¬Found=true (494 words)

	Worldandnation: In Tijuana, a cartel comes tumbling down
		Because of rampant government corruption, cartel leaders routinely have operated with impunity, driving through major cities in a convoy, for example, with their pistoleros, or gunmen, at their side.
		In 1993, the cartel was implicated in the slaying of a Roman Catholic cardinal.
		Throughout all this, the family graced the social pages in Tijuana, and the exploits of the Arellano Felix brothers were celebrated in the so-called "narco ballads" of Mexico.
	www.sptimes.com /2002/03/17/Worldandnation/In_Tijuana__a_cartel_.shtml (1538 words)

	san diego magazine archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Tijuana Cartel, which controls the western half of the 2,000-mile United States—Mexico border, and the competing Juárez Cartel, which controls the eastern half, have emerged as the two dominant forces in the Mexican drug trade.
		Cartel violence is a winding road of incidents triggered by previous acts of treachery and betrayal.
		While it’s apparent the cartels are suppliers and the gangs are distributors, little is known about the nature of their relationship.
	www.sandiego-online.com /issues/june99/blood.shtml (3126 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Border drug crackdown a waste?
		The only major drug-trafficking group that did not send representatives was the Tijuana cartel, led by the Arellano Felix brothers, which accounts for about 20 percent of the illegal narcotics smuggled annually into the United States from Mexico.
		The Tijuana cartel also did business with former Peruvian spy chief Vladimiro Montesinos, who is now jailed in Lima on charges including drug trafficking, money laundering, arms smuggling, bribery and murder.
		The Arellano Felix brothers' cartel is one of Mexico's bloodiest.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=23900 (1192 words)

	My Way - News
		The two were captured in a raid in Tijuana on the border across from San Diego that also netted five other suspected drug traffickers, including police officers, Televisa news and other media said.
		The Tijuana cartel is one of the most powerful criminal gangs in Mexico, controlling the flow of cocaine, marijuana and other drugs through the Mexican border cities of Tijuana and Mexicali and into the United States.
		Weeks earlier, his brother, the cartel's ruthless enforcer, Ramon Arellano Felix, was gunned down in a shootout with police.
	news.myway.com /top/article/id/158481\|top\|06-05-2004::00:25\|reuters.html (188 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		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.
		U.S. police said that was the first hint they had of any connection between the Tijuana cartel and San Diego's Hispanic street gangs, the largest and most powerful of which are based in the Logan Heights neighborhood on the southern edge of the city, barely a dozen miles from the border.
		In many cases, cartel hitmen stage the kidnappings in the United States then dump the bodies in Mexico, recognizing that while the border is no barrier to their operations, it frequently does impede U.S. police investigations.
	www.mit.edu /people/aaelenes/sinaloa/narco/arellano/arellano4.html (3024 words)

	arellano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		"The Arellano Drug Cartel, known as the "Tijuana Cartel", is considered to be one of the most ruthless criminal organizations involved in smuggling drugs into the United States.
		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 Drug Cartel as I mentioned before is considered one of the most powerful and aggressive drug trafficking organizations is the world.
	projects.edtech.sandi.net /memorial/constantino/arellano.htm (590 words)

	Drugstory \| Feature \| Editor Defied, Survived Drug Cartel
		Castanos had written a letter to a cartel leader, Ramon Arellano Felix, demanding to know why he had killed her two sons, who had been, she explained, his most loyal servants.
		It was Castanos' adult daughter who was killed, by gunmen who also wounded her baby, as she and her husband took out the trash, Blancornelas reports in his book, in an apparent violation of mafia family values that bar reprisals against uninvolved family members.
		Blancornelas went back to writing the history of the Tijuana drug cartel in blistering weekly installments, returning to the familiar hard-boiled style and gallows humor that give his work the flavor of a murder mystery.
	www.drugstory.org /feature/drug_cartel_journalist.asp (1592 words)

	HaloScan.com - Comments
		One of the captains of the Sinaloan Cartel is Israel Zambada who is a bitter enemy of the Tijuana Cartel's Benjamin Felix.
		They have consolidated with the Juarez cartel (forming what the US has called the "Golden Triangle") and have been actively inching closer to Tijuana now that all the leaders of the Tijuana Cartel are dead or are in prison.
		The Tijuana Cartel, on the other hand, is quietly trying to form an allegaince with the Juarez and Sinalaon Cartel, especially if the sister takes control of the Felix family, to fend off Cardenas' Gulf Cartel.
	www.haloscan.com /comments/tcpalm/5084724 (3906 words)

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		Violence grips Tijuana two years after leaders of the powerful Tijuana drug cartel were arrested or killed, leaving rival gangs to shoot it out in the bustling streets in a battle over lucrative drug smuggling routes.
		The Arellano Felix brothers, who run the cartel, were set up in the drug business by their reputed cousin, Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo, who ran his drug empire out of Culiacan in Sinaloa state until he was jailed in 1989 for the murder of DEA agent Enrique Camarena.
		At an Aug. 18 press conference in Tijuana, federal prosecutor Jose Luis Vasconcelos said they were taking over the case because several men under arrest for separate crimes had identified the killers and linked the murder to the Arellano Felix cartel.
	www.mapinc.org /tlcnews/v04/n1661/a02.htm (2724 words)

	Mario's Cyberspace Station: Tijuana Cartel Page
		The AFO is a drug gang known for their large distributions of controlled substances and propensity for violence in enforcement of the operation.
		The Mexican Cartels: A Challenge for the 21st Century The Juarez cartel - This cartel was run by a former Mexican federal police commander, Rafael Aguilar, and Amado Carrillo Fuentes.
		A report from the Mother Range, where the pistoleros rule, the natives live in terror, and a fragile culture and the continent's richest wilderness are hanging in the balance.
	mprofaca.cro.net /tijuana1.html (1409 words)

	Mexico Arrests Leading Suspect in Drug Cartel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		He reportedly was responsible for receiving drug shipments from Tijuana, storing the drugs in Mexicali and supervising their transport to the United States.
		The Zambada cartel, authorities said, has seized control of much of the drug trade from Tijuana across the western half of the United States-Mexico border.
		Two years later, Ramón Arellano, the cartel's chief assassin, was killed in a shootout with the police.
	www.latinamericanstudies.org /drugs/higuera.htm (287 words)

	Felix Arrest Said Won't Affect Drug Cartel, Capture of Suspected Drug Lord Unlikely to Be Death Blow for ...
		The Tijuana gang then began to weaken and is believed to have joined a loose alliance with Mexico's Gulf Cartel to protect their turf against an onslaught by a rival bloc _ sometimes known as "the federation" _ led by Mexico's most-wanted drug lord, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.
		Experts say the real brains behind the cartel's operations may be a surprise: one of the men's four sisters, Enedina Arellano Felix, or possibly a fourth brother _ among seven _ Francisco Eduardo.
		The Arellano Felix cartel is believed to be responsible for massive drug tunnels discovered in January, the longest of which stretched 2,400 feet from a warehouse near the Tijuana airport to a warehouse in San Diego's Otay Mesa industrial district.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/08/17/ap/world/mainD8JI3DN80.shtml (842 words)

	Mexico Arrests Cartel Figure
		Higuera was among 12 alleged members of the Arellano Felix smuggling gang, also known as the Tijuana cartel, who were indicted on trafficking charges in federal court in San Diego in July 2003.
		The arrest comes as the major cartels are reorganizing and forming new alliances in the face of increased government pressure, Mexican officials say.
		Whichever cartel he belongs to, Higuera is viewed by Mexican and U.S. law enforcement as one of Baja's top traffickers, after the two fugitive Arellano Felix brothers and Gustavo Rivera Martinez.
	www.streetgangs.com /topics/2004/082404catmex.html (742 words)

	frontline: drug wars: the business: arellano-felix cartel: a family affair \| PBS
		Seven brothers and four sisters, inherited the Tijuana Cartel from Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo in 1989, after he was arrested for his involvement in the murder of DEA Special Agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena.
		The indictment also charges the cartel leaders with shipping large quantities of drugs from Mexico into Southern California using violence, intimidation and bribery to maintain power and at least one attempted murder in the United States.
		Meanwhile, the crackdown on the cartel continues to spark a "tit for tat" war of revenge in Baja California.
	pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/business/afo/afosummary.html (893 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Mexico > Tijuana & The Border -- Armed men who stormed Mexican hospital were ...
		TIJUANA, Mexico – The four masked gunmen who stormed a hospital and fought gunbattles with police that claimed three lives in this border city were hit men for the city's Arellano Felix drug cartel, authorities said Thursday.
		Patricio Patino, assistant federal secretary of public safety, corrected earlier reports that six to eight assailants had been involved in the hospital attack, which he said was aimed at freeing a fellow criminal arrested and wounded in an earlier shootout.
		Dubbed “Operation Tijuana,” the initiative was part of a nationwide military offensive involving 24,000 troops deployed to states plagued by execution-style killings and beheadings as rival gangs fight over marijuana plantations and smuggling routes.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/mexico/tijuana/20070419-1312-mexico-hospitalshooting.html (641 words)

	amw.com \| Eduardo Arellano-Felix - Fugitive
		DEA Administrator Karen Tandy said in a press release that "The Higuera-Guerrero brothers were leaders in what was once the towering Arellano-Felix drug cartel that laid claim to and terrorized the Tijuana corridor leading to the United States.
		The Arellano-Felix cartel, also known as the Tijuana Cartel, has been responsible for countless murders and the smuggling of thousands of tons of marijuana, cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine for more than a decade, according to the DEA.
		Federal agents report that these tunnels support the cartel's massive Tijuana-based drug trade which is accountable for the majority of border trafficking.
	www.amw.com /fugitives/case.cfm?id=37587 (409 words)

	Free Fire Zone
		A month earlier, his brother Ramón, the cartel's chief enforcer, was killed in Mazatlán in what was widely reported as a trap set by the Sinaloa cartel, led by Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada.
		Journalists in Tijuana report a surge in violence, attributing it in part to the move by the Sinaloa cartel to infiltrate the city.
		In an interview with CPJ in Tijuana, Martín Levario Reyes, the special federal prosecutor in charge of the investigation, confirmed that gunmen from the Arellano Félix cartel were the leading suspects, and that Ortiz Franco was likely killed in reprisal for his reporting.
	www.cpj.org /Briefings/2004/tijuana/tijuana.html (2654 words)

	NBC 15 :: Close to Home - Juarez drug gang forms alliances to control nearly all of U.S.-Mexico border (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		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.
		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.
		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)

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