Tijuana Cartel
The Arellano-Felix family's cartel in Baja California.
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The Tijuana Cartel, formerly also called the Arellano-Felix Cartel, is a Mexican cartel based in Tijuana, Baja California, founded by the Arellano-Felix family. It grew out of the Guadalajara Cartel: after its founder Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo was arrested in 1989 and later moved to a maximum-security prison, his organisation split into three factions, the Tijuana Cartel under his nephews the Arellano-Felix brothers, the Juarez Cartel under Amado Carrillo Fuentes and the Sinaloa Cartel.
Quick Facts
- Founded
- 1987
- Founded by
- Benjamín Arellano Félix; Ramón Arellano Félix
- Founding location
- Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico
- Years active
- 1987–present
- Territory
- Tijuana; Ensenada
- Ethnicity
- Mexican
- Membership
- 1,000-3,000
- Leaders
- Enedina Arellano Félix; Edgardo Leyva Escandón
Reader's Guide
Once described as one of the biggest and most violent criminal groups in Mexico, it was reduced to a few cells after the Sinaloa Cartel moved into Baja California in 2006 and the Arellano-Felix brothers fell. Narcos: Mexico depicts its men escaping from Guadalajara airport on a TAESA plane after the murder of Cardinal Juan Jesus Posadas Ocampo, though the article notes several competing theories about that escape.
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