Mexican drug traffickers

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 38. Chapters: Beltrán-Leyva Cartel traffickers, Colima Cartel traffickers, Guadalajara Cartel traffickers, Gulf Cartel traffickers, Juárez Cartel traffickers, La Familia Cartel traffickers, Los Zetas, Sinaloa Cartel traffickers, Sonora Cartel traffickers, Tijuana Cartel traffickers, Joaquín Guzmán Loera, List of Mexico's 37 most-wanted drug lords, Juan García Abrego, Edgar Valdez Villarreal, Arturo Beltrán Leyva, Amado Carrillo Fuentes, Zhenli Ye Gon, Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, Miguel Treviño Morales, Sandra Ávila Beltrán, Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano, Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, Ismael Zambada García, Teodoro García Simental, Héctor Beltrán Leyva, Juan José Esparragoza Moreno, Los Negros, Nazario Moreno González, Jorge Lopez-Orozco, Carlos Beltrán Leyva, Antonio Cárdenas Guillén, Héctor Luis Palma Salazar, Rafael Caro Quintero, Carlos Rosales Mendoza, Miguel Caro Quintero, Sergio Villarreal Barragán, Alfredo Beltrán Leyva, Servando Gómez Martínez, Eduardo Ravelo, Ramón Arellano Félix, Benjamín Arellano Félix, Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, Ignacio Coronel Villarreal, La Línea, Jorge Eduardo Costilla Sánchez, Arturo Guzmán Decena, Jesús Amezcua Contreras, Logan Heights Gang, José de Jesús Gutiérrez Rebollo, Eduardo Arellano Félix, Mario Cárdenas Guillén, Arnoldo Rueda Medina, Jesús Enrique Rejón Aguilar, Juan Nepomuceno Guerra, Jaime González Durán, Pablo Acosta Villarreal, Edgardo Leyva Escandon, Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo, Francisco Rafael Arellano Félix, Luis Amezcua Contreras, Pedro Avilés Pérez, Francisco Javier Arellano Félix, Luis Fernando Sánchez Arellano, Gerardo Alvarez-Vazquez, Dionicio Loya Plancarte, Rafael Aguilar Guajardo, Enrique Plancarte Solís, Alejandro Treviño Morales, Rafael Cedeño Hernández, José de Jesús Méndez Vargas, Carlos Arellano Félix, Alberto Espinoza Barrón, Los Pelones, Manuel Torres Felix, José Luis Fratello, Adán Amezcua Contreras, Juan Francisco Murillo Díaz, Enedina Arellano Félix, Sigifredo Nájera-Talamantes, Sergio Enrique Ruiz-Tlapanco, Iván Velázquez-Caballero, Gente Nueva, Javier Barba-Hernandez, Raúl Lucio Fernandez-Lechuga, Flavio Méndez Santiago, Héctor Huerta Ríos, Gregorio Sauceda-Gamboa. Excerpt: Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera (born April 4, 1957) nicknamed "El Chapo" (Sinaloan Spanish: "Shorty") for his 5 feet 6 inches (1.68 m) stature, is a Mexican drug lord who heads an international drug trafficking organization referred to as the Sinaloa Cartel, named after the Mexican Pacific coast state of Sinaloa where it was initially formed. He became Mexico's top drug kingpin in 2003 after the arrest of his rival Osiel Cárdenas of the Gulf Cartel. In November 2010, Joaquín Guzmán was regarded as the 60th of 68 most powerful people in the world by Forbes Magazine. He was also listed by Forbes as the world's 937th richest man. The Sinaloa Cartel smuggles multi-ton cocaine shipments from Colombia through Mexico to the United States, and has distribution cells throughout the U.S. His organization has also been involved in the production, smuggling and distribution of Mexican methamphetamine, marijuana, and heroin. Guzmán was born on April 4, 1957 to a poor family in the hamlet of La Tuna near Badiraguato, where he sold oranges as a child. He had two sisters: Armida and Bernarda; and had 4 brothers: Miguel Angel, Aureliano, Arturo and Emilio. Little is known about Guzmán's early years. His father was supposedly a cattle rancher, as were most in the area; it is believed,...