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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].</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>
==History==
The cartel was founded around the 1970s.
When leader [[Pablo Acosta Villarreal]] was killed in April 1987 during a cross-border raid by Mexican Federal Police helicopters in the Rio Grande village of Santa Elena, Chihuahua,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.druglord.com/comandante_guillermo_gonzalez_calderoni.html |title=Comandante Guillermo Gonzalez Calderoni |access-date=2009-08-18 |author=Terrence Poppa |year=2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091012052908/http://www.druglord.com/comandante_guillermo_gonzalez_calderoni.html |archive-date=2009-10-12 }}</ref> [[Rafael Aguilar Guajardo]] took his place along with [[Amado Carrillo Fuentes]], nephew of [[Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo]].
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=== Current alliances ===
{{Update|inaccurate=yes|section|date=March 2012}}
Since March 2010, it is alleged that the major
=== Decline ===
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