Juarez cartel

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The Juárez Cartel (also known as the Carrillo Fuentes Organization ) is a Mexican drug cartel that has been fighting for supremacy over the drug smuggling route from Ciudad Juárez in the USA since the 1990s . It was founded by Amado Carrillo Fuentes , who led it until his death in 1997. After that, the Juárez cartel steadily lost power in relation to other drug cartels.

history

Amado Carrillo Fuentes (called El Señor de los Cielos ), the eldest of six brothers, took control of the smuggling route from Ciudad Juárez to the US border town of El Paso from 1989 . After he died in 1997 under unexplained circumstances during plastic facial surgery, the organization split into several groups, which formed alliances with one another under the leadership of Rudolfo and Vicente Carrillo Fuentes (called El Viceroy ).

After Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán's prison break in 2001, former alliance partners of the Juárez cartel joined the Sinaloa cartel . In 2004 Rudolfo Carrillo Fuentes was murdered on behalf of Guzmán. This declaration of war on the Carrillo Fuentes family triggered the extremely bloody turf wars in Ciudad Juárez in recent years. The Juárez cartel, led by Vicente Carrillo Fuentes and the armed arm La Línea and the Los Aztecas gang under Eduardo Ravelo , tried to bring this lucrative drug route back under its sole control.

On July 29, 2011, José Antonio Acosta Hernández , one of the leaders of La Línea , was arrested. According to the indictment, he is responsible for over 1,500 murders.

It is believed that the Juarez cartel controls about a fifth of all drug smuggling in the United States. That corresponds to a turnover of eight billion dollars a year.

Web links

Website Sylvia Longmaire : TCO 101: The Juarez Cartel (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Arturo Chacon: Murderous City. Life and death in Ciudad Juarez. Der Tagesspiegel, October 10, 2010, accessed on February 2, 2011 .
  2. ↑ Narcotics Rewards Program: Vicente Carrillo Fuentes. US Department of State, January 26, 2009, archived from the original on December 7, 2011 ; accessed on June 14, 2013 .
  3. ^ Scott Stewart: Mexico and the Cartel Wars in 2010. Stratfor , December 16, 2010, accessed June 14, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Gang leader is said to have ordered more than 1,500 murders. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . August 1, 2011, accessed August 1, 2011 .
  5. ^ Matthias Rüb: Beyond the Rio Grande. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . June 27, 2012. Retrieved June 29, 2012 .