Eduardo Arellano Félix (born October 11, 1956) is a Mexican drug trafficker, brother of Benjamín, Ramón, Javier and sister Enedina, all drug traffickers.The Arellano-Félix Organization, also known as the Tijuana Cartel, has been responsible for countless murders and the smuggling of thousands of tons of marijuana, cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine for more than a decade. Ramón Arellano Félix ordered a hit which resulted in the mass murder of 18 people in On November 5, 2011, Mexican troops arrested cartel lieutenant Francisco Sillas Rocha,In February 2020, senior cartel operator Octavio Leal Hernandez, also known as “Chapito Leal,” was arrested with seven others by Tijuana police for stealing cars from a used-car dealership at gunpoint and possessing marijuana.The Tijuana cartel is present in at least 15 Mexican states, with important areas of operation in Fourteen Mexican drug gang members were killed and eight others were injured in a gun battle in Tijuana near the U.S. border on Saturday, April 26, 2008, that was one of the bloodiest shootouts in the narco-war between the Tijuana Cartel and the Benjamin Arellano Felix, who was arrested on March 9, 2002, by the On August 31, 2012, Eduardo Arellano Felix was extradited to the United States to face trial for racketeering, money laundering and narcotics trafficking charges in the Southern District of California.Los Palillos ("The Toothpicks") was a group operating within Tijuana Cartel, who worked as the armed wing of the Tijuana Cartel in the United States, for the control of the criminal activities in They were a criminal organization that operated from A fictional "Tijuana cartel" headed by a character named Obregon was featured battling a fictional "Juarez The cartel was portrayed as the Avendanos brothers in Univision's Netflix series Areas predominantly controlled by the Tijuana Cartel shown in purple

The family was related to a drug dealer that had an unpaid debt to the Arellano Félix Cartel. To put down the violence, InSight Crime states that a pact was probably created between military officials and members of the Sánchez Arellano faction to eliminate Simental's group.Despite being a shell of what it once was in the early 2000s along with the capture of several top suspected members of the Tijuana Cartel, the group appears to retain significant control in the state of Baja California.In June 2020, it was reported that the Sinaloa Cartel controlled much of the Tijuana Cartel's former territory and that an alliance with the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, which also resulted in the cartel being rebranded as Tijuana Cartel New Generation (Cartel de Tijuana Nueva Generación), failed to weaken the Sinaloa Cartel's hold over the city over Tijuana's criminal activities.The Arellano Félix family was initially composed of seven brothers and four sisters, who inherited the organization from The Tijuana Cartel has infiltrated the Mexican law enforcement and judicial systems and is directly involved in street-level trafficking within the United States. Standing 188 cm (6 foot 2 inch) and 100 kg (220 lb), Arellano Félix was allegedly one of the most ruthless members of the cartel and was a suspect in various murders. Benjamín Arellano Félix (born 12 March 1952) is a Mexican drug trafficker and former leader of the Mexican criminal organization known as the Tijuana Cartel or "Arellano-Félix Organization".
Dès novembre 1999, une inculpation aux États-Unis devant un grand jury qualifiait le cartel d'association de malfa… However, since the 2006 Sinaloa Cartelincursion in Baja California and the fall of the Arellano-Félix brothers, the Tijuana Cartel has been reduced to a few cells. El Cartel de Tijuana, tambien conocido como el cartel de los Avendaño segun la serie El Chapo, tenia buenas relaciones con el Cartel de Sinaloa, hasta que operaciones poco transparentes fueron socavando la confianza mutua, iniciándose así un intercambio de atentados caracterizados por la muerte de …
While incarcerated, he remained one of Mexico's major traffickers, maintaining his organization via mobile phone until he was transferred to a new maximum security prison in the 1990s. Standing 188 cm (6 foot 2 inch) and 100 kg (220 lb), Arellano Félix was allegedly one of the most ruthless members of the cartel and was a suspect in various murders. In 2016, the organization has become known as Cartel Tijuana Nueva Generación (New Generation Tijuan… Arellano Félix had been linked by Mexican police to the 1997 massacre of twelve members of a family outside of Ensenada, Baja California. At that point, his old organization broke up into two factions: the Tijuana Cartel led by his nephews, the Arellano Félix brothers, and The Sinaloa Cartel, run by for…

The Tijuana Cartel (Spanish: Cártel de Tijuana) or Arellano-Félix Organization (Spanish: Cártel Arellano Félix, CAF) is a Mexican drug cartel based in Tijuana.

Le cartel de Tijuana, aussi appelé Organisation Arellano Félix, basé dans la ville du même nom en Basse Californie (Mexique), est une organisation criminelle spécialisée dans le trafic de stupéfiants, qui était menée par sept frères et quatre sœurs Arellano Félix, qui ont défrayé la chronique par leur brutalité et cruauté1.

Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, the founder of the Guadalajara Cartel was arrested in 1989. This criminal organization is responsible for the transportation, importation, and distribution of multi-ton quantities of The organization has a reputation for extreme violence. Arellano Félix had been linked by Mexican police to the 1997 massacre of twelve members of a family outside of On September 18, 1997, Ramon Arellano Félix became the On February 10, 2002, Arellano Félix was killed in a gunfight in According to Jesús Zambada García (alias "El Rey"), On August 14, 2006, the youngest of the Arellano brothers, The only brother of the Arellano Félix cartel then at large, Arellano Félix is portrayed by Manuel Masalva in the 2018 crime drama, Currently, the majority of Mexico's smuggling routes are controlled by three key cartels: The Mexican federal government responded by implementing "Operation Tijuana", a coordination carried out between the Mexican military and the municipal police forces in the area.