Mexican Drug Lords

Rank the Most Wicked Mexican Drug Lords

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 1 
Joaquín Guzmán Loera
(Drug lord)
Joaquín Guzmán Loera
95
Birthdate: April 4, 1957
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: La Tuna, Mexico
Height: 5'5" (165 cm)
 2 
Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo
41
Birthdate: August 1, 1930
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Badiraguato Municipality

Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo is a convicted Mexican drug lord. He led a now-defunct criminal group called the Guadalajara Cartel alongside Rafael Caro Quintero and Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo. In 1982, the Drug Enforcement Administration indicted him in a money laundering operation, but he fled back to Mexico where he was finally arrested in 1985.

 3 
Arturo Beltrán Leyva
(Criminal)
Arturo Beltrán Leyva
2
Birthdate: June 21, 1961
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Monterrey, Mexico
Died: December 16, 2009
Height: 6'0" (183 cm)
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 4 
Ignacio Coronel Villarreal
(Drug lord)
Ignacio Coronel Villarreal
4
Birthdate: February 1, 1954
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Canelas, Durango, Mexico
Died: July 29, 2010
 5 
Miguel Caro Quintero
(Criminal)
Miguel Caro Quintero
2
Birthdate: 1963 AD
Birthplace: Caborca, Mexico
 6 
Sandra Ávila Beltrán
(Drug trafficker)
Sandra Ávila Beltrán
12
Birthdate: October 16, 1960
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Baja California, Mexico
 7 
Jesús Malverde
(Criminal)
Jesús Malverde
7
Birthdate: January 15, 1870
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Sinaloa, Mexico
Died: May 3, 1909
 8 
Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano
(Drug lord)
Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano
6
Birthdate: December 25, 1974
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Apan, Hidalgo, Mexico
Died: October 7, 2012
Height: 5'11" (180 cm)
 9 
Alfonso Lam Liu
(Convicted drug lord and former high-ranking member of the Gulf Cartel)
Alfonso Lam Liu
4
Birthdate: 1969 AD
Birthplace: Torreón, Coahuila, Mexico