Manuel "El Cochiloco" Salcido Uzeta (1946-9 October 1991) was a Guadalajara Cartel drug trafficker and a co-founder of the Sinaloa Cartel. He played a major role in El Chapo's war with the Tijuana Cartel, and he was murdered by Colombian drug traffickers in 1991.
Biography[]
Manuel Salcido Uzeta was born in San Ignacio, Sinaloa, Mexico, and he was nicknamed Cochiloco, or "crazy pig". Raised in Coquimatlan, Colima, he worked for the Guadalajara Cartel, running a whorehouse from a Guadalajara barbershop and running a local seafood restaurant. In 1985, he and Rafael Caro Quintero murdered the American tourists Alberto Radelat and John Clay Walker after suspecting them of being undercover agents, and, following Quintero's arrest in 1985, he worked with El Chapo and was a founding member of the Sinaloa Cartel along with El Chapo, Ismael Zambada Garcia, and Hector Luis Palma Salazar. Cochiloco and El Chapo went to war with the Tijuana Cartel in 1989, and a physical altercation between Cochiloco and Ramon Arellano Felix nearly cost Ramon his eye. On 9 October 1991, he was ambushed by Colombian drug traffickers in Zapopan, Jalisco after stealing eight tons of their cocaine, and he and a Mexican Army lieutenant were gunned down in Cochiloco's car in the Victoria residential neighborhood of the city.
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