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Mexico: Vicente Carrillo Fuentes is taken away by police in 2014
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A Mexican court has sentenced former drug lord Vicente Carrillo Fuentes to 28 years in prison.
The 58-year-old has to go to prison for drug offenses, money laundering and hoarding firearms, the prosecutor said on Tuesday.
Fuentes, also known as
"
El Viceroy,
" led
the Juarez cartel, one of the country's leading drug cartels, feared for its excesses of violence.
He was arrested in 2014 in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila for organized crime and drug trafficking.
The former head of the US Drug Enforcement Administration, Michele Leonhart, Mexico congratulated for taking the time
"
one of the most notorious drug traffickers in history
"
.
"
Carrillo Fuentes was the leader of the Juarez Cartel and spread murder and manslaughter in Mexico and fueled drug addiction in the US and around the world,
"
she said.
The brother of the now convicted, Amado Carrillo Fuentes, was the founder of the Juárez cartel and was blamed for thousands of deaths because of its bloody drug wars.
He died in 1997 during cosmetic surgery in Mexico City.
The cartel, named after the city of Juárez on the border with the US state of Texas, fought against the Sinaloa cartel of Joaquin
"
El Chapo
"
Guzmán for supremacy on the most important transit routes for drug trafficking.
Guzmán is serving a life sentence in the United States.
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