{"id":42358,"date":"2013-09-02T15:37:44","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T12:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=42358"},"modified":"2022-10-12T23:41:33","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T20:41:33","slug":"mexico-drug-lordcartel-leader-alberto-carrillo-fuentes-ugly-betty-arrested-latin-america-news-42358","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/mexico-drug-lordcartel-leader-alberto-carrillo-fuentes-ugly-betty-arrested-latin-america-news-42358\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico Drug Lord:Cartel leader Alberto Carrillo Fuentes “Ugly Betty” arrested \/ Latin America News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The alleged leader of the New Juarez Cartel, Alberto Carrillo Fuentes\u00a0who is known as ‘Ugly Betty’ Betty La Fea, has been arrested by police in Mexico.<\/h1>\n

Alberto Carrillo Fuentes, 47, was seized in the western state of Nayarit and faces charges of drug trafficking, murder and organised crime.<\/p>\n

He is believed to have taken over the drug cartel named after Cuidad Juarez, the city bordering Texas, after his brother Vicente, ‘The Viceroy’, gave up the job.<\/p>\n

The original group was founded by another brother, Amado Carrillo Fuentes, alias ‘The Lord of the Skies’, who died in mysterious circumstances following plastic surgery in 1997.<\/p>\n

He was allegedly given his nickname because of a fleet of aeroplanes he used to fly cocaine into Mexico.<\/p>\n

It is not known where the other brothers’ aliases originated.<\/p>\n

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According to the weekly magazine Proceso, the Juarez gang was in an intense turf war in several northwestern states against the Sinaloa cartel led by Joaquin\u00a0‘Shorty’\u00a0Guzman, Mexico’s most wanted man.<\/p>\n

In February it was reported that\u00a0<\/strong>Guzman had been shot dead but this was never confirmed.<\/p>\n

The two cartels waged a fierce battle for control of Ciudad Juarez in recent years and Guzman is believed to have come out on top.<\/p>\n

The city was once considered the world’s murder capital but the murder rate has dropped since a peak of more than 3,000 in 2010.<\/p>\n

Carrillo Fuentes’s arrest is the latest in a series of captures of\u00a0 high-profile drug lords since July.<\/p>\n

Authorities detained Zetas cartel kingpin Miguel Angel Trevino, alias ‘Z-40’, on July 15, followed by Gulf cartel leader Mario Ramirez Trevino on August 17.<\/p>\nError, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 10)<\/span>\n

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The alleged leader of the New Juarez Cartel, Alberto Carrillo Fuentes who is known as ‘Ugly Betty’, has been arrested by police in Mexico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":702,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,1,118,34,14],"tags":[57992,57993,57996,57995,57994,55097,2058,57988,3634,57985,57986,57987,57989,57991,57990],"class_list":["post-42358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-latin-america","category-world","tag-alberto-carrillo-fuentes","tag-alberto-carrillo-fuentes-arrested","tag-betty-la-fea-arrested","tag-cartel-leader-fuentes-arrested","tag-drug-cartel-leader-arrested","tag-latin-america-mexico","tag-mexico","tag-mexico-cartel-chief-arretsed","tag-mexico-drug-cartel","tag-mexico-drug-lord","tag-mexico-drug-lord-arrested","tag-new-jarez-cartel","tag-ugky-betty","tag-ugly-betty-alberto-carrillo-fuentes","tag-ugly-betty-arrested"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}