Enedina Arellano Félix
| Enedina Arellano Félix | |
|---|---|
| Born |
April 12, 1961 Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico |
| Other names | La Jefa La Madrina La Narcomami |
| Occupation | Tijuana Cartel drug lord |
| Predecessor | Eduardo Arellano Félix |
| Criminal charge |
Drug trafficking, money laundering |
| Criminal status | Fugitive |
| Spouse(s) | Luis Raúl Toledo Carrejo |
| Relatives |
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Enedina Arellano Félix de Toledo (born April 12, 1961) is a Mexican drug lord who leads the criminal organization known as the Tijuana Cartel.
Throughout most of the 1990s, the Tijuana Cartel was headed by her six brothers, while Enedina advised and helped them in money laundering and financial administration. But after the fall of a financial mastermind in the cartel in the year 2000, Enedina took up the position. According to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Enedina is the world's first female drug lord; she first started working behind the scenes as a money launderer for the Tijuana Cartel but then led the cartel after the arrest of her brother Eduardo Arellano Félix in 2008.
Since most of her brothers are now either arrested or killed, Enedina has managed the financial aspect of the organization, overseen alliances, and taken the lead of the Tijuana Cartel alongside Luis Fernando (before his capture in 2014). Her historical contacts with drug suppliers in Colombia managed to keep the organization afloat.
Enedina Arellano Félix was born in Mazatlán, Sinaloa on April 12, 1961 in a family of drug traffickers. In 1977, when she was seventeen, Enedina harbored her dream of becoming the queen of a carnival in Mazatlán, but she abandoned it after her two brothers, Ramón and Benjamín, were wanted by the United States and the Mexican government. During that time, her older brothers were working for Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, who would eventually give them the drug corridor in Tijuana, Baja California.
Graduating with a bachelor's degree in Design. By the mid 1980s, Enedina was working with the family business, but was never considered by the authorities as a visible head in the Tijuana Cartel. Nonetheless, after the fall of the former cartel's financial brain, Jesús Labra Avilés, alias El Chuy, in the year 2000, Enedina began to directly manage the money laundering activities of the criminal organization.
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