Rafael Aguilar Guajardo (1950 – 12 April 1993) was a
Mexican drug lord, federal police commander of the
Dirección Federal de Seguridad (DFS) in
Mexico
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,
and one of the
Juárez Cartel co-founders.
He was the right-hand man to
Pablo Acosta Villarreal who was killed in April 1987, during a cross-border raid by Mexican Federal Police helicopters in the Rio Grande village of Santa Elena, Chihuahua.
Having taken over from Acosta, Rafael Aguilar Guajardo made
Amado Carrillo Fuentes his second-in-command.
Mexican police reported that Carlos Maya Castillo, an official also working at the
National Security and Investigation Center, assisted Aguilar with information and reservations, provided him with cell phones, and recruited corrupt police agents for Aguilar's criminal organization.
Aguilar was shot to death while vacationing with his family in the Caribbean resort of Cancun. He was shot outside of Gypsys Restaurant on the city’s tourist strip as he returned from a submarine tour with family members.
An innocent bystander, American tourist Georgina Knafel, 32, of
Nederland, Colorado was gunned down as well. Aguilar’s wife, Maria Teresa Delgado Varela, 35, and son, 11, were wounded in the attack.
Two days after threatening to reveal his high-level Mexican government contacts,
Amado Carrillo Fuentes took over the reins of power in the Juárez cartel after assassinating Aguilar,
[ setting off the city's worst ongoing bout of criminal violence. Aguilar's assets, seized by the Attorney General of Mexico (PGR), were valued at $100 million, and they included nightclubs, houses, and a 7000 m2 property in Acapulco.]
See also
* Mérida Initiative
*Mexican Drug War
The Mexican drug war is an List of ongoing armed conflicts, ongoing Asymmetric warfare, asymmetric armed conflict between the Federal government of Mexico, Mexican government and various Drug cartel#Mexico, drug trafficking syndicates. When the ...
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1950 births
1993 deaths
Guadalajara Cartel traffickers
Juárez Cartel traffickers
Mexican crime bosses
Mexican people convicted of money laundering
Mexican drug traffickers
Mexican drug war
Murdered Mexican gangsters
People from Ciudad Juárez
Deaths by firearm in Mexico
Date of birth missing