Ruthless and territorial, Benjamin Arellano Felix is supposedly running the most violent dope syndicate in Mexico (his brother is wasting away in a Mexican jail cell). The cartel is behind the massive quantities of methamphetamine that have been flooding into San Diego, Los Angeles and points east. Arellano Felix's enforcers are thought to have been the trigger men in the 1993 assassination in Guadalajara of Catholic cardinal Juan Jesus Posadas-Ocampo. This Tijuana-based cartel has already penetrated the Mexican military-which has taken over Mexico's antinarcotics efforts-perhaps all the way up to the president's bodyguards. Graduates of Mexico's most prestigious military academy are known to serve as security advisers to the Arellano clan, and the gang has employed former army officers as assassins to whack any potential witnesses against it. In Tijuana and Mexico City, at least seven federal prosecutors and a state attorney have been murdered in slayings connected to the cartel. There were 315 murders in Tijuana in 1997, most of them drug related.
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