Rafael Aguilar Guajardo (1950 – 12 April 1993) was a
Mexican drug lord, federal police commander of the
Direccion Federal de Seguridad (DFS) in
Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...
,
and one of the
Juárez Cartel
The Juárez Cartel (Spanish: ''Cártel de Juárez''), also known as the Vicente Carrillo Fuentes Organization, is a Mexican drug cartel based in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, across the Mexico—U.S. border from El Paso, Texas. The cartel is one of ...
co-founders.
He was the right-hand man to
Pablo Acosta Villarreal who was killed in April 1987, during a cross-border raid by Mexican Federal Police helicopters in the Rio Grande village of Santa Elena, Chihuahua.
Having taken over from Acosta, Rafael Aguilar Guajardo made
Amado Carrillo Fuentes
Amado Carrillo Fuentes (; December 17, 1956 – July 7, 1997) was a Mexican drug lord who seized control of the Juárez Cartel after assassinating his boss Rafael Aguilar Guajardo. Amado Carrillo became known as "''El Señor de Los Cielos''" ...
his second-in-command.
Mexican police reported that Carlos Maya Castillo, an official also working at the
National Security and Investigation Center, assisted Aguilar with information and reservations, provided him with cell phones, and recruited corrupt police agents for Aguilar's criminal organisation.
Two days after threatening to reveal his high-level Mexican government contacts,
Amado Carrillo Fuentes
Amado Carrillo Fuentes (; December 17, 1956 – July 7, 1997) was a Mexican drug lord who seized control of the Juárez Cartel after assassinating his boss Rafael Aguilar Guajardo. Amado Carrillo became known as "''El Señor de Los Cielos''" ...
took over the reins of power in the Juárez cartel after assassinating Aguilar,
[ setting off the city's worst ongoing bout of criminal violence. Aguilar's assets seized by the ]Attorney General of Mexico
The Attorney General of the Republic is the head of the Attorney General's Office (''Fiscalía General de la República, FGR''; prior to 2019, ''Procuraduría General de la República, PGR'') and the Federal Public Ministry of the United Mexi ...
(PGR) were valued at $100 million, and they included nightclubs, houses, and a 7000 m2 property in Acapulco.
See also
*Mérida Initiative
The Mérida Initiative (named after Mérida (Yucatán), the city where it was agreed upon, also called Plan Mexico, in reference to Plan Colombia) is a security cooperation agreement among the United States, the government of Mexico and the countri ...
* Mexican Drug War
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1942 births
1993 deaths
Guadalajara Cartel traffickers
Juárez Cartel traffickers
Mexican crime bosses
Mexican money launderers
Mexican drug traffickers
Mexican drug war
People from Ciudad Juárez