Top 10 Notorious Mexican Drug Lords
The ongoing Mexican government campaign has led to the killing of two major drug lords, Nazario Moreno Gonzalez and Antonio Ezequiel Cardenas at the end of 2010, and the arrest in June 2011 of Moreno's apparent successor Jesus Mendez Vargas. All this, however, offers small encouragement as Mexico tries to rein in the powerful drug cartels that have wreaked havoc across the country. TIME looks at 10 of the country's most prominent gangsters — dead or alive.
Alias: El Ingeniero (The Engineer)
Affiliation: Tijuana cartel
Born: Circa 1980 in Tijuana
Bounty: $2 million (U.S.), 30 million pesos (Mexico)
What We Know: The heir of the Arellano Félix clan that has held sway over the border city of Tijuana since the 1980s. His uncles were portrayed in the movie Traffic as the Obregón brothers. Although weakened by the rise of other criminal outfits, the Tijuana cartel still controls a valuable piece of trafficking turf along the Mexican border.
UPDATE: Still at large.
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