- Juárez Cartel
The Juárez Cartel is a
Mexican drug trafficking cartel based in Juárez,Mexico . The cartel has most recently transformed itself into the Golden Triangle Alliance, or "La Alianza Triángulo de Oro", because of its leaders in three Mexican states. The border state Chihuahua which is south of Texas and Durango and Sinaloa which both share border with the southern tip of the international border state. Until 2004 the organization was headed byJuan José Esparragoza Moreno , also known as "El Azul" (The Blue). In late 2004 control of the cartel was assumed by Ricardo Garcia Urquiza until his arrest inMexico City during November2005 . ["Drug wars' long shadow", Dallas Morning News, December 13, 2005]At its height, the Juárez cartel was assumed to be responsible for some 50 percent of illegal drugs that pass through Mexico to the
United States . It rose in the past decade to become one of the hemisphere's - if not the world's - most powerful crime organizations. Some US sources estimate the cartel's income reached as high as $200 million a week under former bossAmado Carrillo Fuentes , who mysteriously died in July1997 . ["A look inside a giant drug cartel", Christian Science Monitor, 1999]The Juárez Cartel was featured battling the rival
Tijuana Cartel in the2001 motion picture "Traffic".Members of the cartel were implicated in the
serial murder site inCiudad Juárez that was discovered in 2004 and has been dubbed theHouse of Death .cite web| url=http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1962643,00.html | title=The House of Death| author=The Observer | date=12/3/2006 ]Notes
External links
* [http://borderstories.org/index.php/ciudad-juarez-the-war-on-news.html Border Stories profiles a newspaper reporter caught up in the drug war in Mexico]
ee also
*
Gulf Cartel
*Tijuana Cartel
*Amado Carrillo Fuentes
*Los Zetas
*Vicente Carrillo Fuentes
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