Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo
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His Eminence Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo |
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| Cardinal, Archbishop of Guadalajara | |
| Church | Roman Catholic |
| Archdiocese | Guadalajara |
| Term ended | 24 May 1993 |
| Predecessor | José Salazar López |
| Successor | Juan Sandoval Íñiguez |
| Other posts | Cardinal-Priest of Nostra Signora di Guadalupe e San Filippo Martire |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 23 September 1950 |
| Consecration | 14 June 1970 |
| Created Cardinal | 28 June 1991 by John Paul II |
| Rank | Cardinal-Priest |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
10 November 1926 Salvatierra, Guanajuato, Mexico |
| Died | 24 May 1993 (aged 66) Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico |
| Nationality | Mexican |
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Cardinal Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo (11 November 1926 in Salvatierra, Guanajuato – 24 May 1993 in Guadalajara, Jalisco) was a Mexican bishop of the Catholic Church who served as the eighth archbishop of the see of Guadalajara and as a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
Posadas Ocampo was elevated to the cardinalate by Pope John Paul II on the consistory of 28 June 1991.
On 24 May 1993, Posadas Ocampo, along with six other people, was assassinated in the parking lot of Guadalajara International Airport. He was inside his car and received 14 gunshots. A government inquiry concluded he was caught in a shootout between rival cocaine cartels and was mistakenly identified as a drug lord. According to a cable of the Defense Intelligence Agency, the cardinal was mistaken for Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the head of the Sinaloa Cartel. No one was ever punished for the slaying itself, although charges related to the homicide would be filed. Juan Francisco Murillo Díaz "El Güero Jaibo" and Édgar Nicolás Villegas "El Negro", members of the Tijuana Cartel, were identified as the masterminds of the homicide.
Although ordered by the Tijuana Cartel, many members of the hit squad were actually San Diego-based members from the Logan Heights gang, trained by the Tijuana Cartel as assassins. Benjamín Arellano-Félix gave up two members of the hit squad: Juan Enrique Vasconez and Ramon Torres Mendez. Torres was killed while in custody awaiting trial. Vasconez received 9 years on weapons charges in Mexico.
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