Vicente "El Viceroy" Carrillo Fuentes (born 16 October 1962) was the leader of the Juarez Cartel from 1997 to 2014, succeeding Amado Carrillo Fuentes.
Biography[]
Carrillo Fuentes being arrested
Vicente Carrillo Fuentes was born in Navolato, Sinaloa, Mexico on 16 October 1962, the brother of Amado Carrillo Fuentes and Rodolfo Carrillo Fuentes. During the 1990s, Vicente was brought in on his brother Amado's Juarez Cartel operations, and he took control of the cartel after Amado died of a stroke during a plastic surgery operation in Mexico City in 1997. Vicente Carrillo Fuentes attempted to avoid conflict with the Tijuana Cartel now that a power vacuum was created, but his cartel was weakened by defections to the Sinaloa Cartel after Joaquin Guzman Loera escaped from prison in 2001. In 2004, Guzman had Rodolfo Carrillo Fuentes killed as he left a movie theater, so Vicente Fuentes had Guzman's brother Arturo Guzman Loera murdered in prison. This sparked off a turf war between the two cartels, and 200 people were killed in the first three months of 2008 alone. President Felipe Calderon sent thousands of Mexican Army troops to Ciudad Juarez to quell the unrest there, and the Juarez Cartel became a shadow of its former self. On 9 October 2014, Carrillo Fuentes was captured in Torreon, Coahuila. On 14 September 2021, he was sentenced to 28 years in prison on organized crime and drug trafficking charges.