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Mexico police captures wanted drug lord; 'The Barbie'
EXCERPT:
The decapitated bodies of four men were hung from a bridge in Cuernavaca last week, along with a message threatening allies of “La Barbie” and signed by the gang led by Hector Beltran Leyva. Two more bodies were hung from bridges near Acapulco later in the week, although no gang claimed responsibility.

Arturo Beltran Leyva wikipedia
EXCERPT:
Breakaway from the Sinaloa Cartel
The Beltrán-Leyva Cartel was founded and named after the brothers Arturo, Alfredo, Alberto, Carlos and Héctor Beltrán Leyva after they separated from the Sinaloa cartel, which is led by Joaquín Guzmán Loera a.k.a. "El Chapo".

Arturo Beltrán Leyva and his four brothers worked as underbosses and security chiefs for the Sinaloa cartel leaders. The breakaway from the Sinaloa Cartel was motivated by the capture of Alfredo Beltrán Leyva ('El Mochomo') by the Mexican military on January 21, 2008[9] which the brothers attributed to a betrayal by their boss Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán. After this incident, the Beltrán Leyva brothers and their lieutenants defected from the Sinaloa Cartel and allied themselves with the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas.

Alfredo's influence had penetrated deep into the Attorney General of Mexico office by bribing Mexico’s former drug czar, Noé Ramírez Mandujano[10] and other top ranking officials. Ramírez Mandujano, who was the head of the country’s top organized crime unit SIEDO, received US$450,000 per month to tip them off on the how, when and where any actions or operations against them would be taken.

[edit] Death
On December 11, 2009, in Ahuatepec, Morelos, a town bordering Cuernavaca, Arturo Beltrán Leyva held a Christmas party at a house located in one of the most luxurious gated communities in Cuernavaca. He hired artists such as Ramón Ayala, Los Cadetes de Linares and more than 20 prostitutes to entertain his guests.[11] Elements of the Mexican Navy surrounded the house and tried to capture him, but in the exchange of fire he escaped. Three gunmen were killed along with an innocent bystander (a neighbor) and more than 11 bodyguards were captured. Authorities confiscated US$280,000 in cash, 16 assault rifles (AK-47 and AR-15), 4 pistols, 74 rifle magazines and 1,700 rounds of ammunition.[12]

Mexican Navy intelligence kept track on him and one week later, on December 16, 2009 he was traced to another luxurious apartment community where a 90-minute shootout ensued. About 200 Mexican Marines, one Navy Mil Mi-17 helicopter, from which marines rappelled, and two small Army tanks surrounded the building complex where he was hiding. Approximately 20 fragmentation hand grenades were used by Beltrán Leyva’s gunmen to keep the Navy from advancing into his position. Arturo then used his cell phone to call for backup,[citation needed] at which point at least ten men infiltrated the area surrounding the building in which the drug lord was hiding, threw grenades and opened fire at the naval infantrymen.[citation needed]

Arturo Beltran Leyva and three gunmen were killed; a fourth gunman committed suicide.[13][14] Among the items seized by authorities during this raid, there were US$40,000 in cash, several thousand Canadian dollars, five assault rifles (AK-47 and AR-15), one pistol and several religious scapulars and medallions.

Analysts said the use of navy commandos was a notable development in the drug war because they are regarded as elite fighters who operate beyond the reach of corrupting influences.[15]

The Mexican government had listed Arturo Beltran Leyva as one of its 24 most-wanted drug lords and had offered a US$2.1 million reward for his capture.[16]

[edit] Revenge
Melquisedet Angulo Córdova, the Special Forces marine who was killed during the confrontation with Arturo Beltran Leyva, was buried with military honors on December 21, 2009. The next day, a group of gunmen assassinated members of the marine's family, including his mother.[17][18] Gudiel Ivan Sanchez was later arrested in Chiapas for his alleged role as one of the gunmen in the killings.[19] While the December 22 shootings were taking place, a "narcomanta" (banner) was placed on a kinder school on the state of Morelos and a section of the school was set on fire. The 'narcomanta' warned of further reprisals against anybody interfering with the cartel's affairs.[20]

Carlos Beltran Leyva
EXCERPT:
Mexico Captures Drug Lord Carlos Beltran Leyva
Drug lord Carlos Beltran Leyva, whose brother Arturo Beltran Leyva was killed in a shootout with marines last month, was captured by Mexican federal police

Drug kingpin in group with Bill Gates and Ophra
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"People see Chapo Guzman as the social bandit, as a Robin Hood. He fixes up the towns and puts lights in the cemetery. He is part of Sinaloan folklore."

Sinaloa Cartel wikipedia
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Background
Pedro Avilés Pérez was a pioneer drug lord in the Mexican state of Sinaloa in the late 1960s. He is considered to be the first generation of major Mexican drug smugglers of marijuana who marked the birth of large-scale Mexican drug trafficking.[6] He also pioneered the use of aircraft to smuggle drugs to the United States.[7]

Second generation Sinaloan traffickers such as Rafael Caro Quintero, Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo, Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo and Avilés Pérez' nephew Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán,[8] would claim they learned all they knew about narcotrafficking while serving in the Avilés organization. Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, who eventually founded the Guadalajara Cartel was arrested in 1989. While incarcerated, he remained one of Mexico's major traffickers, maintaining his organization via mobile phone until he was transferred to a new maximum security prison in the 1990s. At that point, his old organization broke up into two factions: the Tijuana Cartel led by his nephews, the Arellano Félix brothers, and the Sinaloa Cartel, run by former lieutenants Héctor Luis Palma Salazar, Adrián Gómez González and Joaquín Guzmán Loera El Chapo.

[edit] Leadership

Sinaloa Cartel hierarchy in early 2008The Sinaloa Cartel used to be known as La Alianza de Sangre (Blood Alliance). When Héctor Luis Palma Salazar (a.k.a: El Güero) was arrested on June 23, 1995, by elements of the Mexican Army, his partner Joaquín Guzmán Loera took leadership of the cartel.[2][9] Guzmán was captured in Guatemala on June 9, 1993, and extradited to Mexico, where he was jailed in a maximum security prison, but on Jan. 19, 2001, Guzmán escaped and resumed his command of the Sinaloa Cartel. Guzmán has two close associates, Ismael Zambada García and Ignacio Coronel Villareal.[10][11] Guzman and Zambada became Mexico's top drug kingpins in 2003, after the arrest of their rival Osiel Cardenas of the Gulf Cartel. Another close associate, Javier Torres Felix, was arrested and extradited to the U.S. in December 2006;[12] so far, Guzmán and Zambada have evaded operations to capture them.

On July 29, 2010 Ignacio Coronel was killed in a shootout with the Mexican military in Zapopan in the Mexican state of Jalisco.[13]

Joaquin Guzman Lorea wikipedia
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The Guzmán Loera Organization smuggles multi-ton cocaine shipments from Colombia through Mexico to the United States. The organization uses both air and maritime means to transport these shipments.[1] He has contacts with Colombian sources of supply in Colombia, as well as major Colombian traffickers based in Mexico. He has bases of operation in Sinaloa, Sonora, and Chihuahua, Mexico.[1] The organization has distribution cells throughout the United States, including cells in Arizona, California, Texas, Chicago, and New York.[1] The organization has also been involved in the production, transshipment, storage, and distribution of marijuana and heroin. The Guzman organization relies on bulk currency shipments to move drug proceeds across the United States-Mexico border.

Amando Carrillo Fuentes
EXCERPT:
Amado Carrillo (December 17, 1956 – July 3, 1997), Born in Guamuchilito, Sinaloa, Carrillo was a Mexican drug lord and boss of the Juárez Cartel. He became known as "El Señor de Los Cielos" (Lord of the Skies) because of the large fleet of jets he used to transport drugs. He was also known for laundering over US$20 million via Colombia to finance his huge fleet of planes. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration described Carrillo as the most powerful drug trafficker of his era.[1]
He died in a Mexican hospital after undergoing extensive plastic surgery to change his appearance. In his final days Carrillo was being tracked by Mexican and U.S. authorities.

Zetas in Mexico
EXCERPT:
Los Zetas: the Ruthless Army Spawned by a Mexican Drug Cartel
by George W. Grayson

•Browse FPRI Bulletins by George Grayson
May 2008

George W. Grayson is the Class of 1938 Professor of Government at the College of William & Mary, an associate scholar at FPRI and a senior associate at the Center for Strategic & International Studies. His latest book, Mexican Messiah (Penn State University Press, 2007), is a biography of Mexico’s self-anointed “legitimate president,” Andrés Manuel López Obrador. The New York-based Foreign Policy Association will publish Grayson’s monograph on U.S.-Mexican narcotics relations.

Drug-related violence in the border town of Nuevo Laredo, the major portal for U.S.-Mexican commerce, left the city of 350,000 without a police chief until printing-shop owner Alejandro Domínguez Coello valiantly accepted the post on the morning of June 8, 2005. “I’m not beholden to anyone. My commitment is to the citizenry,” stated the 56-year-old father of three. Within six hours, he lay in a thickening pool of blood after hit men believed to belong to Los Zetas paramilitary force fired more than 30 bullets into his body. Their message was clear: narco-traffickers control the streets of Nuevo Laredo. “They are openly defying the Mexican state,” said Mexico City political scientist Jorge Chabat. “They are showing that they can kill anybody at any time. It’s chilling.”[1]

The brutal, daylight murder of Domínguez provides an insight into why Mexican scholar Raul Benitez insists that “Los Zetas have clearly become the biggest, most serious threat to the nation’s security.”[2] Meanwhile, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration advises that these brigands “may be the most technologically advanced, sophisticated and violent of these paramilitary enforcement groups.”[3]

Alejandro Dominguez Coello wikipedia
Alejandro Domínguez Coello (ca. 1950 - June 8, 2005) was the chief of police in Nuevo Laredo, a city on the Mexican side of the United States–Mexico border.

He had volunteered for the job, which no one else wanted. On June 8, 2005, just hours after being commissioned, he was gunned down by men firing assault rifles from a Chevrolet vehicle. It was thought he was killed in a turf battle between Mexico's two main drug gangs. He was 55 years of age, and a father of 3.

In the aftermath, federal troops and police took control of the city - and fifty people were killed in gun battles.