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The '''Juárez Cartel''' ([[Spanish language{{langx|es|Spanish]]: ''Cártel de Juárez''}}, {{IPA|es|ˈkaɾtel ðe ˈxwaɾes|pron}}), also known as the '''Vicente Carrillo Fuentes Organization''', is a [[Mexican people|Mexican]] [[drug cartel]] based in [[Ciudad Juárez]], [[Chihuahua (state)|Chihuahua]], across the [[Mexico–United States border|Mexico—U.S. border]] from [[El Paso, Texas]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Sinaloa Cartel: responsible for 84% of "narco" homicides|url=http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/10/sinaloa-cartel-responsible-for-84-of.html|newspaper=[[Borderland Beat]]|date=October 31, 2010}}</ref> The cartel is one of several drug trafficking organizations that have been known to decapitate their rivals, mutilate their corpses and dump them in public places to instill fear not only in the general public but also in local law enforcement and their rivals, the [[Sinaloa Cartel]].<ref>{{cite news | author=Bill Conroy | title=Juarez murders shine light on an emerging 'Military Cartel' | date=December 6, 2008 | publisher=NarcoSphere | url=http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/bill-conroy/2008/12/juarez-murders-shine-light-emerging-military-cartel | access-date=2010-03-08 | archive-date=2014-04-15 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140415105318/http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/bill-conroy/2008/12/juarez-murders-shine-light-emerging-military-cartel | url-status=dead }}</ref> Its current known leader is [[Juan Pablo Ledezma]]. The Juárez Cartel has an armed wing known as [[La Línea (gang)|La Línea]], a Juárez street gang that usually performs the executions and is now the cartel’s most powerful and leading faction.<ref>{{cite news|title=Mexican police: Drug gang leader says he ordered 1,500 killings|url=http://articles.cnn.com/2011-07-31/world/mexico.drug.arrest_1_lesley-enriquez-consulate-employee-drug-gang?_s=PM:WORLD|newspaper=CNN|date=July 31, 2011|access-date=2011-09-20|archive-date=2012-10-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121011044657/http://articles.cnn.com/2011-07-31/world/mexico.drug.arrest_1_lesley-enriquez-consulate-employee-drug-gang?_s=PM:WORLD|url-status=dead}}</ref> It also uses the [[Barrio Azteca]] gang to attack its enemies.<ref name=pasoans>{{cite news|title=Background: Barrio Azteca gang|url=http://www.elpasotimes.com/ci_17579333?source=pkg|access-date=30 June 2012|newspaper=[[El Paso Times]]|date=3 October 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130122212948/http://www.elpasotimes.com/ci_17579333?source=pkg|archive-date=22 January 2013}}</ref>
The Juárez Cartel was the dominant player in the center of the country, controlling a large percentage of the [[cocaine]] traffic from Mexico into the United States. The death of [[Amado Carrillo Fuentes]] in 1997 was the beginning of the decline of the Juárez cartel, as Carrillo relied on ties to Mexico's top-ranking drug interdiction officer, division general [[Jesús Gutiérrez Rebollo]].<ref name=briefs >[http://tech.mit.edu/V116/N64/gutierrez.64w.html Mexican Drug Czar Fired, Charged With Drug Corruption] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161207191618/http://tech.mit.edu/V116/N64/gutierrez.64w.html |date=2016-12-07 }}.</ref><ref>[http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/10/27/mexico.drugs.ap/index.html Cartel worker reportedly spied on DEA in Mexico] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081029235947/http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/10/27/mexico.drugs.ap/index.html |date=2008-10-29 }}</ref>
