Juarez Cartel
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The Juárez Cartel is a powerful Mexican drug trafficking cartel based in Juárez, Mexico. The cartel has most recently transformed itself into the Golden Triangle Alliance, or La Alianza Triángulo de Oro, because of its leaders in three Mexican border states: Sinaloa, Chihuahua and Durango. Until 2004 the organization was headed by Juan José Esparragoza Moreno, also known as El Azul. In late 2004 control of the cartle was assumed by Ricardo Garcia Urquiza until his arrest in Mexico City during November 2005.Drug wars' long shadow, Dallas Morning News, December 13, 2005
At its height, the Juárez cartel was assumed to be responsible for some 50 percent of illegal drugs that pass through Mexico to the United States. It rose in the past decade to become one of the hemisphere's - if not the world's - most powerful crime organizations. Some US sources estimate the cartel's income reached as high as $200 million a week under former boss Amado Carrillo Fuentes, who mysteriously died in July 1997.A look inside a giant drug cartel, Christian Science Monitor, 1999
The Juárez Cartel was featured battling the rival Tijuana Cartel in the 2001 motion picture Traffic.
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