Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, former head of the Juarez cartel captured in 2014, has been sentenced to 28 years in prison, Mexico's attorney general's office said on Tuesday.
The 58-year-old drug lord, nicknamed "El Viceroy", is the brother of Amado Carrillo Fuentes, nicknamed "El Señor de los Cielos" ("The Lord of Heaven"), who was one of the most powerful traffickers. drug from Latin America until his death in 1997.
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According to a statement from the Attorney General's office, Carillo Fuentes was sentenced to 28 years in prison for offenses related to drug trafficking, money laundering and the storage of firearms. He was arrested in October 2014 in the state of Coahuila, in northern Mexico, bordering the United States. The United States had offered a reward of $ 2.2 million for his capture. The authorities at the time described him as being particularly
"discreet".
His sentence includes the years he has already spent behind bars since his arrest. Following the death of her brother, Carillo Fuentes had taken control of the criminal organization operating in Ciudad Juárez (north), on the border with the American city of El Paso. At the time, the Juárez cartel was one of the most powerful and, under Vicente's leadership, it engaged in a bloody turf war with the Sinaloa cartel of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, another powerful drug dealer sentenced to life in the United States.
This bloody struggle in Ciudad Juárez and elsewhere in the country prompted the federal government to launch a military anti-drug operation in December 2006. Since then, more than 300,000 people have died violent deaths in Mexico, according to official figures which link the Most of these organized crime murders.
