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In 2006, a Texan named Edgar Valdez Villarreal was at an inflection point in his drug-smuggling career. Valdez was thirty-three and known as La Barbie for his blond hair and blue eyes, the fair-skinned look that Mexicans call güero. A former high-school linebacker from Laredo, he had spent about fifteen years shipping marijuana, and later, cocaine, to Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee. During the late nineteen-nineties, he was one of many smugglers operating across the border, in Nuevo Laredo, the largest inland port in Mexico. The drug trade had been relatively peaceful. Each smuggler paid sixty thousand dollars a month to the local plaza boss, a man named Dionisio García, known as El Chacho, who in turn paid the bribes that insured the trafficking routes.
But in 2000, the Gulf cartel began to take over Nuevo Laredo, and gave every crook in town an option: join or die. El Chacho was killed, and La Barbie fled to Acapulco. He joined a clan from western Mexico, the Be
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Edgar Valdez Villarreal
Mexican-American drug lord
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Valdez and the second or maternal family name is Villarreal.
Edgar Valdez Villarreal (born August 11, 1973), also known as La Barbie ("The Barbie"), is a Mexican-American former drug lord and high-ranking lieutenant of the Beltrán Leyva Cartel. Valdez is serving a 49-year prison sentence at USP Coleman II in Florida.
Valdez worked for several years as a Mexican cartel lieutenant alongside nephew Fernando Valdez, before rising to a leadership position in an enforcement squad called Los Negros.[3][4] Following the death of cartel boss Arturo Beltrán Leyva in late 2009, Valdez fought a protracted gang war for control of the cartel resulting in over 150 deaths. He employed techniques such as videotaped torture and decapitation.[5][6]
On August 30, 2010, he was arrested by Mexican Federal Police at a rural house near M
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Los Zetas
Mexican criminal syndicate
Criminal organization
Los Zetas | |
| Founded by | Osiel Cárdenas Guillén,[1] Arturo Guzmán Decena |
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| Founding location | Tamaulipas |
| Years active | 1997–present |
| Territory | Mexico: Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon, Coahuila, Veracruz, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatán, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosí, Chiapas, Puebla, Tlaxcala, Hidalgo, Guerrero, Oaxaca, Guanajuato, Zacatecas, Aguascalientes, Michoacán, State of México Rest of North America: South America: Balkans, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, europeisk Union, Norway, Switzerland and Liechtenstein |
| Ethnicity | Multi-ethnic, but mainly Mexican and Latino |
| Membership (est.) | 20,000–50,000 |
| Leader(s) | Maxiley Barahona Nadales |
| Criminal activities | Drug trafficking, human trafficking, arms trafficking, murder, rape, kidnap
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