The capture of the drug barons as Calderon administration is not sufficient to completely dismantle their structures and modus operandi.
Such has been the case of Beltran Leyva cartel and Arellano Felix, the capture of Alfredo Beltrán "Mocha" and the death of Arturo Beltran "El Barbas" as well as the arrest of Eduardo Arellano Félix "El Doctor" and Teodoro Garcia Simental "El Teo", respectively, are believed fractured.
Although the federal government has undertaken to highlight catches of major traffickers as Vicente Carrillo Leyva, son of the late Amado Carrillo, founder of the Juarez cartel, Jesus "The King" Zambada, brother of "El Mayo" Zambada and one the leaders of the Sinaloa cartel, the more weight lords of organized crime remain at large.
Achilles Heel
The current strategy with which to combat drug trafficking in Mexico has not reached to recapture Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera, the main leader of the Sinaloa cartel and who has become the Achilles heel of the struggle undertaken by the federal government organized crime.
The Sinaloa kingpin was arrested in June 1993 in Guatemala and sentenced to 20 years in prison. He was subsequently imprisoned in the prison of La Palma (now El Altiplano) on charges of drug crimes, conspiracy and bribery, and in 1995 moved to the maximum security prison in Puente Grande, Jalisco.
It was in the early days of the PAN's Vicente Fox's administration as President of the Republic and with the help of prison authorities, when "El Chapo" managed to escape on January 19, 2001 hidden in a laundry truck, as reported by the authorities.
Since then earned a spot on the list of most wanted criminals by the authorities of Mexico and the United States, to the extent that the Attorney General's Office (PGR) and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA, for its acronym in English ) offered rewards of up to 30 million pesos and $ 5 million, respectively, for any information leading to his capture.
His name has always been present, whether by their actions within the organized crime or to appear in the list of the richest in the world who made Forbes magazine, as their wealth is equated with Mexican businessman Emilio Azcarraga, Televisa president. To make matters worse, Time magazine included it in their ranking of the hundred most influential people on the planet.
Along with Joaquin Guzman Loera, the Sinaloa cartel direction are Ismael "El Mayo Zambada, Ignacio" Nacho "Coronel and Juan Jose Esparragoza" The Blue. "
The rule of "El Mayo"
Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, one of the most wanted drug lords in Mexico and the United States, is a character with three different faces: the benefactor, the employer and the enigmatic man who, in contrast to other drug traffickers, remains in low profile.
Until a few years, "El Mayo" used to come every December to his hometown to spread the Alamo beer and cash to its inhabitants were "Merry Christmas."
In Sinaloa is well known that Zambada is considered "the last bastion of generosity" that characterized a few years ago so palpable a number of heads of drug trafficking.
Zambada has worked primarily to increase the production of heroin cartel, while it has become one of the main contacts for the U.S. to introduce cocaine from Colombia.
His character has always been booked to stay away from the bloody power struggles among his contemporaries, such as starring in the 90's by the Arellano Felix clan against his partner Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.
The U.S. and Mexico authorities also offer rewards for $ 5 million and 30 million pesos, respectively, for any information resulting in his arrest.
"The king of glass"
According to intelligence reports the U.S. government Ignacio "Nacho" Coronel in 2008 became the most powerful drug lord in Mexico.
The bloody dispute between Beltran and his partner clan Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has hardly diminished and allowed it to expand its domain, exploring new routes and traffic control market for amphetamines and methamphetamines in the United States.
From there they call him "King Of Ice" or "King of Crystal", a name that does not apply between his relatives who call him "The Coronel Villarreal engineer," "Nacho" Coronel, "Nacho" Coronel, as can be seen in the FBI's search tab. Also known as "The Diamond Handle", perhaps the inclination of some drug lords to adorn their favorite weapons inlaid with precious metals and stones.
Coronel has safe houses in Jalisco and Yucatan, but his favorite place is south of Durango, in a small village called El Molino, which is located between the mountain communities of Guatimapé and Canatlán. Moves under Arturo Urrutia identities or the lawyer Ignacio Valdes Urrutia Valdes, but the name of Dagoberto Rodríguez Jiménez suspect the U.S. government has been the author of several financial transactions detected in Colombia.
As the operator of the former Federation consolidated from 2002, imports of precursor chemicals from abroad and took control of the criminal activities of this association in the west.
In 2004 before the incipient fracture in the Federation, because the execution of Rodolfo Carrillo Fuentes, the reports say they took the control of operations at the old routes of the Juarez cartel for the transfer and occupied the safe houses to shelter.
"The Blue", three administrations operate
Juan Jose Esparragoza "The Blue" is one of the few drug traffickers in Mexico that has been kept alive for more than three administrations and is the only capo release of that founding group that coalesced in Sinaloa some of the late Pedro Aviles "The Lion de la Sierra ", with Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo and Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo" Don Neto ", precursors of the organization in the 80 and 90 took Rafael Caro Quintero and Amado Carrillo Fuentes to their leaders.
Many versions agree that Don Juan, as he is identified, he is a peacemaker, gentle, a great talker and a born negotiator profile. Even U.S. officials attributed the rapprochement in 2006 between the Federation and the former Gulf cartel to agree an end to violence in the north.
Esparragoza spent seven years in prison. Shared closure with Amado Carrillo, and when he was released in 1992 began the second half of his career. The late "Lord of Heaven" I joined to sponsor cronyism Juan Manuel, one of the sons of Carrillo, while Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada baptized one of his sons.
Several theories suggest that after the death of Amado Carrillo, "El Azul" assumed with Vicente Carrillo Fuentes "The Viceroy" leadership of the Juarez cartel. Others suggest that sided with "El Mayo and El Chapo" out of the way for the organization of the Carrillo Fuentes.
However, the Attorney General's Office puts it, in a sign that offered 30 million dollars for information leading to his capture, as one of the leaders of the Pacific cartel.
"Storm" in the Gulf
After the capture of Osiel Cardenas Guillen in March 2003, his brother Antonio Ezequiel became the successor, took over the Gulf cartel, and a year later, he imposed on leaders of other cells such as José Eduardo Costilla "El Coss "One of the strong men of" Los Zetas "and was seeking the leadership of the organization.
The main task in which it has focused "Tony Tormenta" is to maintain the cartel's power in the "Border Girl, areas of Tamaulipas and Reynosa, Matamoros and the bastion of the organization, Ciudad Miguel German, vying other groups of drug traffickers to be one of the most important crossroads of drugs for the U.S. market.
In 2008 he was accused by U.S. authorities in charge of trading multiple shipments of several tons of marijuana and cocaine from Mexico to that country, made by the DEA offered a reward of up to 5 million dollars for information resulting in his arrest .
The deputy of the "Lord of Heaven"
Vicente Carrillo Fuentes "The Viceroy" is the current leader of the Juarez cartel, one of the oldest criminal organizations in Mexico founded, among others, by his brother, Amado Carrillo Fuentes.
It is considered by U.S. authorities as a highly dangerous individual and among its 46 positions in the northern country are the possession of marijuana and cocaine with intent to distribute, money laundering, bribing witnesses, ordering the killing of people to avoid statements to the U.S. authorities, and murder.
It is said that "The Viceroy" formed an alliance with Juan Jose Esparragoza and that after the 2004 death of his brother Rodolfo, ordered to kill within a prison "El Pollo" Guzman, brother of the leader of the Sinaloa cartel.
Vicente Carrillo Leyva his nephew, son of "Lord of Heaven" and arrested in April 2009, told the SIEDO "The Viceroy" currently has a cell of gunmen largely composed of former military, always heavily armed and are associated with "Los Zetas" to attack and defend against the Sinaloa cartel.
The armed wing
Much of the violence that exists in the north is the responsibility of the criminal organization known as "Los Zetas", operating as the armed wing of the Gulf Cartel.
This murderous group was founded, among others, Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano, alias "El Lazca", who was the Special Forces Airmobile Group (jinxes), a group of elite Mexican army and later backed down in order to serve the lord Osiel Cardenas Guillen.
Lazcano ranked third in importance within the organization, but after the death of the assassins known as "Z-1" and "Z-2" took the lead in "Los Zetas."
Gulf to the Pacific, "Lazca" is recognized as a violent murderer, who also has said he owns a ranch with lions and tigers that are usually shed some of his victims, federal agents, mostly.
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