Mexican drug cartel based in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, founded around 1970 by Rafael Aguilar Guajardo, Pablo Acosta Villarreal, Amado Carrillo Fuentes, and Vicente Carrillo Fuentes. It controls cocaine trafficking routes into the United States and is known for extreme violence, including decapitations. Its armed wing is La Línea, and it uses Barrio Azteca gang. Currently led by Juan Pablo Ledezma.
CRIMENET has extracted 140 linkages for this organization, including 67 cooperative ties across 24 organizations, 58 conflicts across 20 organizations, 15 other connections and footprints in 2 countries.
the Barrio Azteca street gang operates in Mexico and in Texan cities such as El Paso, Dallas, and Houston, as well as in New Mexico and Arizona.
haciendo tratos con los más grandes e importantes carteles colombianos de la droga de ese momento