The Tijuana Cartel is a Mexican drug cartel from Tijuana, Baja California.

It covers the north-western part of Mexico and competes with two other major cartels: the Juárez Cartel of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua (center), and the Gulf Cartel (east).

The Tijuana Cartel was featured battling the rival Juárez Cartel in the 2001 motion picture Traffic. It was also known as the Arellano-Felix Organization (AFO), from the time that it became led by the family of Ramón Eduardo Arellano-Félix. On September 18, 1997, Arellano-Félix became the 451st person to be added by the FBI to the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list.

The organization had a reputation for extreme violence. Ramón ordered a hit which resulted in the mass murder of 19 people in Ensenada on September 17, 1998. Ramón was eventually killed in a gunbattle with police at Mazatlán on February 10, 2002.

See also

• Ramón Arellano Félix – alleged kingpin of the cartel prior to his 2002 shootout death.

External links

• PBS Frontline article
• Archive demo of Arellano-Félix's FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitive poster

Drug cartels | Mexican criminal organizations | Tijuana

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