Pedro Aviles Perez (13 July 1938 – 15 September 1978) was a Mexican drug trafficker who was affiliated with the Guadalajara Cartel. He was the uncle and mentor of Joaquin Guzman Loera.
Biography[]
Pedro Aviles Perez was born in Badiraguato, Sinaloa, Mexico on 13 July 1938, and he was a member of the first generation of marijuana-smuggling Mexican drug traffickers; he was also the first smuggler to use aircraft to bring drugs into the United States. Aviles taught Rafael Caro Quintero and Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo all about drug trafficking, and he also took the ambitious policeman Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo and the young Joaquin Guzman Loera under his wing. Guzman grew opium poppy for him before being hired as a hitman, and Aviles came to like his young nephew. However, Aviles fell out with Miguel Angel after ruining Miguel Angel's plans to form a consortium with Pablo Acosta Villarreal of Ojinaga, the Arellano Felix brothers from Tijuana, Gabino Salcido from Mazatlan, Filemon Medina of Zacatecas, Rene Verdugo of Nogales, and the DFS; at the meeting of the consortium, Aviles was offended that his old rival Acosta credited Miguel Angel with the formation of the consortium, leading to Aviles angrily firing Acosta from the consortium and causing a walkout from among the other members. Aviles then planned to have Miguel Angel murdered, telling him that he would be accompanying him back to Sinaloa from Guadalajara. However, Fonseca Carrillo was aware that this would lead to Miguel's death, so he plotted to kill Aviles first. On 15 September 1978, at the age of 40, Aviles was stopped by the DFS driving back to Culiacan with Miguel Angel and his chauffeur Joaquin Guzman Loera, and the DFS proceeded to gun down Aviles and his bodyguard, while sparing Miguel Angel; DFS director Salvador Osuna Nava gave his gun to Miguel Angel to fire the last shot into Aviles' head.
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