Tijuana Cartel

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The Tijuana Cartel (Spanish: Cártel de Tijuana, pronounced [ˈkaɾtel ðe tiˈxwana]), formerly also known as the Arellano-Félix Cartel (Spanish: Cártel de los Arellano Félix, CAF), is a diminished Mexican drug trafficking organization, based in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. Founded by the Arellano-Félix family as a branch (“plaza”) of the Guadalajara Cartel, the branch would become an independent cartel following the 1989 arrest of Guadalajara leader Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo. The cartel, once was described as "one of the biggest and most violent criminal groups in Mexico", has been reduced to a few cells following a series of conflicts. Incursions by the Sinaloa Cartel into Tijuana-held Baja California in 2006, the arrests or deaths of all founding Arellano-Félix members by 2013, and infighting between two rival factions from 2008 to 2010 severely fractured and weakened the cartel by the mid-2010s. In 2016, remnants of the Tijuana Cartel allied themselves with, and became partially...

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