Mexico - Juan García Abrego (El Muñeco) and the Gulf Cartel

As the reputed supplier of a third of the cocaine that reaches the United States, Abrego ("The Doll") was the first international drug trafficker to get his name pasted to post office walls as an elite member of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list. He joked to his captors after he was busted by the FBI in January 1996 that "I never thought you'd get me." And he probably had a good reason to think they wouldn't. You see, "the Doll" was cozy with former Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari's brother Raol. In fact, Raol used to party regularly with the boys of the cartel, one of Mexico's big four, and stashed some US$84 million into frozen Swiss bank accounts. The stinger was Raol Salinas de Gortari's alleged trip to Colombia to pick up US$10 million from the Cali drug cartel, which he then tried to use to fund Luis Donaldo Colosio's bid for the presidency. When Colosio turned down the contribution, he was wasted by the Gulf cartel in March 1994. Raol is now in prison for plotting the September 1994 murder of one of Mexico's top politicians. One thing for sure, while Carlos Salinas de Gortari was in office, the Gulf cartel rose to the top rank among Mexico's drug syndicates. Now this conglomerate of traffickers is on the downslide; 70 of its members have already been convicted in three U.S. states.

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