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Carlos Alberto Arellano Félix is a 57-year-old [[Mexican people|Mexican]] male who is known for his illegal involvement in [[money laundering]] for the [[Tijuana Cartel]] <ref>{{Cite web|last=Mennem|first=K.|last2=May 29|last3=2013|title=DEA official claims Arellano Félix Organization dead, despite current activity in Tijuana {{!}} San Diego Reader|url=https://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/news-ticker/2013/may/29/dea-claims-arellano-felix-organization-dead-despit/|access-date=2020-11-05|website=www.sandiegoreader.com|language=en}}</ref>. Carlos was born on the 20th of August in the year 1955 in the city of [[Culiacán|Culiacán, Sinaloa]]. <ref>{{Cite book|last=Jones, Nathan P.,|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/949885859|title=Mexico's illicit drug networks and the state reaction|isbn=978-1-62616-296-9|location=Washington, DC|oclc=949885859}}</ref> Historian Paul Eiss states that Culiacán is the origin of modern drug trafficking and the home of Mexico’s most powerful drug cartel <ref>{{Cite book|last=Valdez, Javier, 1967-2017,|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/969646420|title=The Taken : True Stories of the Sinaloa Drug War.|date=2017|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|others=Meade, Everard.|isbn=978-0-8061-5887-7|location=Norman|oclc=969646420}}</ref> Carlos is currently working as a license surgeon. <ref>{{Cite web|last=Mennem|first=K.|last2=May 29|last3=2013|title=DEA official claims Arellano Félix Organization dead, despite current activity in Tijuana {{!}} San Diego Reader|url=https://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/news-ticker/2013/may/29/dea-claims-arellano-felix-organization-dead-despit/|access-date=2020-11-05|website=www.sandiegoreader.com|language=en}}</ref> He finished his surgical training at the [[Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara]] (UAG) <ref>{{Cite web|last=Mennem|first=K.|last2=May 29|last3=2013|title=DEA official claims Arellano Félix Organization dead, despite current activity in Tijuana {{!}} San Diego Reader|url=https://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/news-ticker/2013/may/29/dea-claims-arellano-felix-organization-dead-despit/|access-date=2020-11-05|website=www.sandiegoreader.com|language=en}}</ref> The Tijuana Cartel is an organisation that is notorious for being one of the most well-known drug trafficking groups in Mexico to smuggle goods into the United States <ref>{{Cite book|last=Jones, Nathan P.,|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/949885859|title=Mexico's illicit drug networks and the state reaction|isbn=978-1-62616-296-9|location=Washington, DC|oclc=949885859}}</ref> Carlos’ family is made up of seven brothers and four sisters who inherited the [[Tijuana Cartel|Arellano Felix Organisation]] from their godfather, [[Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo|Miguel Ángel Félix]]. <ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1089879952|title=Global crime : an encyclopedia of cyber theft, weapons sales, and other illegal activities|others=Reichel, Philip L.,|isbn=1-4408-6015-7|location=Santa Barbara, California|oclc=1089879952}}</ref> Despite Carlos’ involvement in money laundering for the Tijuana Cartel, he is one of two brothers who remains free and is not wanted by the United States law enforcement <ref>{{Cite web|last=Mennem|first=K.|last2=May 29|last3=2013|title=DEA official claims Arellano Félix Organization dead, despite current activity in Tijuana {{!}} San Diego Reader|url=https://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/news-ticker/2013/may/29/dea-claims-arellano-felix-organization-dead-despit/|access-date=2020-11-05|website=www.sandiegoreader.com|language=en}}</ref> 
{{Spanish name|Arellano|Félix}}


Carlos Alberto Arellano Félix is a 57-year-old [[Mexican people|Mexican]] licensed surgeon who is known for his illegal involvement in [[money laundering]] for the [[Tijuana Cartel]]. (Mennem, 2013). Carlos was born on the 20th of August 1955 in the city of [[Culiacán|Culiacán, Sinaloa]] (Jones, 2016). Culiacán is widely considered to be the origin of modern drug trafficking and the home of Mexico’s most powerful drug cartel (Valdez & Meade, 2017). Carlos’ family is made up of seven brothers and four sisters who inherited the [[Arellano Felix Organisation]], better known as the Tijuana Cartel, from their godfather, [[Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo|Miguel Ángel Félix]] (Reichel, 2019). The organisation is notorious for being considered one of the most well-known drug trafficking groups in Mexico to smuggle goods into the [[United States]] (Jones, 2016). Despite Carlos’ involvement in money laundering for the Tijuana Cartel, he is one of two brothers who still remains free and is not wanted by the United States law enforcement (Mennem, 2013).  

[[Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara]]

[[Mazatlán]], [[Guadalajara]] and [[Mexico City]].


== '''Carlos Arellano’s Early Life''' ==
== '''Carlos Arellano’s Early Life''' ==
Carlos Arellano Félix was born in the city of Culiacán, Sinaloa in Mexico <ref>{{Cite book|last=Jones|first=Nathan|title=Mexico's illicit drug networks and the state reaction|publisher=Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press|year=2016|isbn=9781626162969|location=|pages=}}</ref> The city is approximately 58,000 square kilometres situated in north-western Mexico between the towering mountains of the Sierra Madre Occidental and the Gulf of California, south of the border of Sonora and north of the beaches of Nayarit <ref>{{Cite book|last=Valdez, Javier, 1967-2017,|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/969646420|title=The Taken : True Stories of the Sinaloa Drug War.|date=2017|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|others=Meade, Everard.|isbn=978-0-8061-5887-7|location=Norman|oclc=969646420}}</ref> Culiacán is situated on a small coastal plain with remote mountain redoubts, secluded tidal marshes and coastal inlands that allow suitable hideouts for rebels, contrabandists and bandits. <ref>{{Cite book|last=Valdez, Javier, 1967-2017,|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/969646420|title=The Taken : True Stories of the Sinaloa Drug War.|date=2017|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|others=Meade, Everard.|isbn=978-0-8061-5887-7|location=Norman|oclc=969646420}}</ref> The Tijuana drug cartel, in which Carlos was involved in, was originally formed in the 1960s in [[Sinaloa]] predominately delivering [[heroin]] and [[Cannabis (drug)|marijuana]] from Sinaloa to the United States. <ref>{{Cite book|last=Jones, Nathan P.,|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/949885859|title=Mexico's illicit drug networks and the state reaction|isbn=978-1-62616-296-9|location=Washington, DC|oclc=949885859}}</ref> According to Historian Paul Eiss, Culiacán, Sinaloa is a “regional organised crime hub” within Mexico and is the home of one of the most powerful drug cartels <ref>{{Cite book|last=Valdez, Javier, 1967-2017,|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/969646420|title=The Taken : True Stories of the Sinaloa Drug War.|date=2017|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|others=Meade, Everard.|isbn=978-0-8061-5887-7|location=Norman|oclc=969646420}}</ref> Authorities and academics fault the Tijuana’s drug trade for the new wave of violence within Mexico. <ref>{{Cite news|last=Phillips|first=Tom|date=2019-11-04|title=Bloody Tijuana: a week in the life of Mexico's murderous border city|language=en-GB|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/04/bloody-tijuana-mexico-murderous-border-city-week|access-date=2020-11-05|issn=0261-3077}}</ref> Sinaloa and Culiacán in particular is commonly associated with the values and the aesthetics of drug dealers. <ref>{{Cite book|last=Polit Dueñas, Gabriela.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/862135546|title=Narrating narcos : stories from Culiacan and Medellin|date=2013|publisher=University of Pittsburgh Press|isbn=1-306-55371-7|location=Pittsburgh|oclc=862135546}}</ref>
Carlos Arellano Félix was born in the city of Culiacán, Sinaloa in Mexico (Jones, 2016). The Tijuana drug cartel in which Carlos was involved in was originally formed in the 1960s in [[Sinaloa]] predominately delivering [[heroin]] and [[Cannabis (drug)|marijuana]] from Sinaloa to the United States (Jones, 2016). Due to the history of crime within his hometown, Carlos’ has had a close relationship with illegal activity. Culiacán, Sinaloa is widely considered by many as the ‘birthplace of modern drug trafficking’ and a “regional organised crime hub” in Mexico and is referred to as the home of its most powerful drug cartel (Valdez & Meade, 2017). Authorities and academics fault the Tijuana’s drug trade for the new wave of violence (Phillips, 2019). The city is approximately 58,000 square kilometres situated in north-western Mexico between the towering mountains of the Sierra Madre Occidental and the Gulf of California, south of the border of Sonora and north of the beaches of Nayarit (Valdez & Meade, 2017). Culiacán is situated on a small coastal plain with remote mountain redoubts, secluded tidal marshes and coastal inlands that allow suitable hideouts for rebels, contrabandists and bandits (Valdez & Meade, 2017).


== '''Family''' ==
== '''Family''' ==
Carlos’ family is comprised of seven brothers and four sisters who were brought up in the city of Culiacán. <ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1089879952|title=Global crime : an encyclopedia of cyber theft, weapons sales, and other illegal activities|others=Reichel, Philip L.,|isbn=1-4408-6015-7|location=Santa Barbara, California|oclc=1089879952}}</ref>Many of Carlos’ immediate and external family members were involved in illegal activity through the Arellano Felix Organisation. <ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1089879952|title=Global crime : an encyclopedia of cyber theft, weapons sales, and other illegal activities|others=Reichel, Philip L.,|isbn=1-4408-6015-7|location=Santa Barbara, California|oclc=1089879952}}</ref> Carlos’ family all inherited the Arellano Felix Organisation from their god father Miguel Ángel Félix after his incarceration in 1989. <ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1089879952|title=Global crime : an encyclopedia of cyber theft, weapons sales, and other illegal activities|others=Reichel, Philip L.,|isbn=1-4408-6015-7|location=Santa Barbara, California|oclc=1089879952}}</ref>
Carlos’ family consists of seven brothers and four sisters who were brought up in the city of Culiacán (Reichel, 2019). Carlos’ family all inherited the Arellano Felix Organisation from their god father Miguel Ángel Félix after his incarceration in 1989 (Reichel, 2019). Benjamín Arellano Félix was the prudent and symbolic leader of the organisation (Jones, 2016). Carlos’ sisters, Enedina and Alicia, are also involved in the organisation’s illegal activities. Four of Carlos’ brothers have been incarcerated in the Unites States with another one, Ramón Eduardo Arellano Félix, was executed in Mexico in 2002 by police (Mennem, 2013).  Carlos’s oldest brother Francisco Rafael Arellano Félix was arrested in 1980 in San Diego after supplying cocaine to a DEA agent (Mennem, 2013). Due to Carlos’ family’s illegal acts, Mexican prosecutors were pursuing superior Mexican traffickers, including the Arellano family and close associates. Despite Carlos’ active role in money laundering for his family’s organisation and an attempted indictment, Carlos is one of two brothers who remain free in Mexico and are not wanted for any criminal charges (Mennem, 2013).

Benjamín Arellano Félix was the prudent and symbolic leader of the organisation. <ref>{{Cite book|last=Jones, Nathan P.,|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/949885859|title=Mexico's illicit drug networks and the state reaction|isbn=978-1-62616-296-9|location=Washington, DC|oclc=949885859}}</ref>Carlos’ sisters, Enedina and Alicia, are also involved in the organisation’s illegal activities. In the United States, Four of Carlos’ brothers have been incarcerated. <ref>{{Cite web|last=Mennem|first=K.|last2=May 29|last3=2013|title=DEA official claims Arellano Félix Organization dead, despite current activity in Tijuana {{!}} San Diego Reader|url=https://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/news-ticker/2013/may/29/dea-claims-arellano-felix-organization-dead-despit/|access-date=2020-11-05|website=www.sandiegoreader.com|language=en}}</ref> In 2002, another one of Carlos’ brothers, Ramón Eduardo Arellano Félix, was executed in Mexico by police. <ref>{{Cite web|last=Mennem|first=K.|last2=May 29|last3=2013|title=DEA official claims Arellano Félix Organization dead, despite current activity in Tijuana {{!}} San Diego Reader|url=https://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/news-ticker/2013/may/29/dea-claims-arellano-felix-organization-dead-despit/|access-date=2020-11-05|website=www.sandiegoreader.com|language=en}}</ref> In 1980, Carlos’s oldest brother Francisco Rafael Arellano Félix was arrested in San Diego after supplying cocaine to a DEA agent. <ref>{{Cite web|last=Mennem|first=K.|last2=May 29|last3=2013|title=DEA official claims Arellano Félix Organization dead, despite current activity in Tijuana {{!}} San Diego Reader|url=https://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/news-ticker/2013/may/29/dea-claims-arellano-felix-organization-dead-despit/|access-date=2020-11-05|website=www.sandiegoreader.com|language=en}}</ref> Due to Carlos’ family’s illegal acts, Mexican prosecutors were pursuing superior Mexican traffickers, including the Arellano family and close associates. <ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1089879952|title=Global crime : an encyclopedia of cyber theft, weapons sales, and other illegal activities|others=Reichel, Philip L.,|isbn=1-4408-6015-7|location=Santa Barbara, California|oclc=1089879952}}</ref> Despite Carlos’ active role in money laundering for his family’s organisation and an attempted indictment, Carlos is one of two brothers who remain free in Mexico and is not wanted for any criminal charges. <ref>{{Cite web|last=Mennem|first=K.|last2=May 29|last3=2013|title=DEA official claims Arellano Félix Organization dead, despite current activity in Tijuana {{!}} San Diego Reader|url=https://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/news-ticker/2013/may/29/dea-claims-arellano-felix-organization-dead-despit/|access-date=2020-11-05|website=www.sandiegoreader.com|language=en}}</ref>


== '''The Tijuana Cartel''' ==
== '''The Tijuana Cartel''' ==
The Tijuana Cartel was originally known as the Arellano Felix Organisation. <ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1089879952|title=Global crime : an encyclopedia of cyber theft, weapons sales, and other illegal activities|others=Reichel, Philip L.,|isbn=1-4408-6015-7|location=Santa Barbara, California|oclc=1089879952}}</ref> Carlos played an active role within the cartel through money laundering operations. <ref>{{Cite web|last=Mennem|first=K.|last2=May 29|last3=2013|title=DEA official claims Arellano Félix Organization dead, despite current activity in Tijuana {{!}} San Diego Reader|url=https://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/news-ticker/2013/may/29/dea-claims-arellano-felix-organization-dead-despit/|access-date=2020-11-05|website=www.sandiegoreader.com|language=en}}</ref> Carlos did this through several of their companies situated within Mazatlán, Guadalajara and Mexico City. <ref>{{Cite web|last=Mennem|first=K.|last2=May 29|last3=2013|title=DEA official claims Arellano Félix Organization dead, despite current activity in Tijuana {{!}} San Diego Reader|url=https://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/news-ticker/2013/may/29/dea-claims-arellano-felix-organization-dead-despit/|access-date=2020-11-05|website=www.sandiegoreader.com|language=en}}</ref> These companies consisted of real estate, construction, night clubs, money exchange houses and retailing shops. <ref>{{Cite web|last=Mennem|first=K.|last2=May 29|last3=2013|title=DEA official claims Arellano Félix Organization dead, despite current activity in Tijuana {{!}} San Diego Reader|url=https://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/news-ticker/2013/may/29/dea-claims-arellano-felix-organization-dead-despit/|access-date=2020-11-05|website=www.sandiegoreader.com|language=en}}</ref> The Tijuana drug cartel was originally formed in the 1960s in Sinaloa predominately delivering heroin and marijuana from Sinaloa to the United States <ref>{{Cite book|last=Valdez, Javier, 1967-2017,|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/969646420|title=The Taken : True Stories of the Sinaloa Drug War.|date=2017|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|others=Meade, Everard.|isbn=978-0-8061-5887-7|location=Norman|oclc=969646420}}</ref> The former head of Organised Crime Unit of the Mexican Federal Attorney General’s Office (SIEDO), states that the organisation was one of the first main Mexican drug trafficking organisation to drastically increase its kidnapping prior to President Calderon’s offensive against the cartels. <ref>{{Cite journal|last=Jones|first=Nathan|date=2013-06-01|title=The unintended consequences of kingpin strategies: kidnap rates and the Arellano-Félix Organization|url=https://doi.org/10.1007/s12117-012-9185-x|journal=Trends in Organized Crime|language=en|volume=16|issue=2|pages=156–176|doi=10.1007/s12117-012-9185-x|issn=1936-4830}}</ref> According to historian Paul Eiss, in the late 1990s, the organisation was also one of the most prevailing illicit networks in Mexico, smuggling drugs into the United States through increasingly complex tunnels <ref>{{Cite book|last=Valdez, Javier, 1967-2017,|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/969646420|title=The Taken : True Stories of the Sinaloa Drug War.|date=2017|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|others=Meade, Everard.|isbn=978-0-8061-5887-7|location=Norman|oclc=969646420}}</ref>
The Tijuana Cartel which was originally known as the Arellano Felix Organisation (Reichel, 2019). The Tijuana drug cartel in which Carlos was involved in was originally formed in the 1960s in Sinaloa predominately delivering heroin and marijuana from Sinaloa to the United States (Valdez & Meade, 2017). The organisation was considered to be one of the most powerful illicit networks in Mexico in the late 1990s, smuggling drugs into the United States through increasingly complex tunnels (Valdez & Meade, 2017). Carlos played an active role within the cartel through money laundering operations (Mennem, 2013). Carlos did this through several of their companies situated within Mazatlán, Guadalajara and Mexico City (Mennem, 2013). These companies consisted of real estate, construction, night clubs, money exchange houses and retailing shops (Mennem, 2013). In the first decade of the 21st century, the Tijuana Cartel lost almost all of its first-generation, superior leadership members to either arrest or death, excluding Carlos (Jones, 2016). The arrests and deaths of Carlos’ family members and the constant attacks and conflicts negatively affected the organisation (Reichel, 2019). However, in spite of recent contradictory statements by United States authorities, the organisation currently remains active and alive in Tijuana (Valdez & Meade, 2017). Although Carlos is presently known to be a surgeon and is unwanted, there are suspicions that he continues to allegedly organise the importation of narcotics into the United States (Mennem, 2013).  

=== The Tijuana Cartel Today ===
The Tijuana Cartel has lost almost all of its first-generation, superior leadership members to either death or arrest, excluding Carlos. <ref>{{Cite book|last=Jones, Nathan P.,|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/949885859|title=Mexico's illicit drug networks and the state reaction|isbn=978-1-62616-296-9|location=Washington, DC|oclc=949885859}}</ref> The arrests and deaths of Carlos’ family members and constant attacks and conflicts negatively affected the organisation. <ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1089879952|title=Global crime : an encyclopedia of cyber theft, weapons sales, and other illegal activities|others=Reichel, Philip L.,|isbn=1-4408-6015-7|location=Santa Barbara, California|oclc=1089879952}}</ref> However, in spite of recent contradictory statements by United States authorities, the organisation currently remains active and alive in Tijuana <ref>{{Cite book|last=Valdez, Javier, 1967-2017,|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/969646420|title=The Taken : True Stories of the Sinaloa Drug War.|date=2017|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|others=Meade, Everard.|isbn=978-0-8061-5887-7|location=Norman|oclc=969646420}}</ref> Although Carlos is presently known to be a licensed surgeon and is unwanted, there are suspicions that he continues to allegedly organise the importation of narcotics into the United States. <ref>{{Cite web|last=Mennem|first=K.|last2=May 29|last3=2013|title=DEA official claims Arellano Félix Organization dead, despite current activity in Tijuana {{!}} San Diego Reader|url=https://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/news-ticker/2013/may/29/dea-claims-arellano-felix-organization-dead-despit/|access-date=2020-11-05|website=www.sandiegoreader.com|language=en}}</ref>


== '''Carlos Arellano’s freedom''' ==
== '''Carlos Arellano’s freedom''' ==
Between 2000-2010, the Tijuana Cartel lost almost all of its first-generation, highest leadership members to either arrest or death (Jones, 2016). However, there are two remaining Arellano Félix brothers, one of which is Carlos, who are not wanted by United States authorities and remain free in Mexico, with no criminal charges (Mennem, 2013). Despite his alleged involvement in money laundering through multiple companies in central Mexico for the Tijuana Cartel, Carlos currently works as a licensed surgeon (Mennem, 2013). He had previously been indicted in the United states with multiple of his other brothers, but he was subsequently dropped from the 1989 indictment leading to his current freedom (Mennem, 2013).
Between 2000-2010, the Tijuana Cartel lost almost all of its first-generation, the highest leadership members to either arrest or death. <ref>{{Cite book|last=Jones, Nathan P.,|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/949885859|title=Mexico's illicit drug networks and the state reaction|isbn=978-1-62616-296-9|location=Washington, DC|oclc=949885859}}</ref> However, there are still two remaining Arellano Félix brothers, one of which is Carlos. Both brothers remain free in Mexico with no criminal charges or indictments and are not wanted by United States authorities. <ref>{{Cite web|last=Mennem|first=K.|last2=May 29|last3=2013|title=DEA official claims Arellano Félix Organization dead, despite current activity in Tijuana {{!}} San Diego Reader|url=https://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/news-ticker/2013/may/29/dea-claims-arellano-felix-organization-dead-despit/|access-date=2020-11-05|website=www.sandiegoreader.com|language=en}}</ref> Despite Carlos’ alleged involvement in money laundering for the Tijuana Cartel done through multiple companies in central Mexico for the Tijuana Cartel, he went to the Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara and is currently working as a licensed surgeon. <ref>{{Cite web|last=Mennem|first=K.|last2=May 29|last3=2013|title=DEA official claims Arellano Félix Organization dead, despite current activity in Tijuana {{!}} San Diego Reader|url=https://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/news-ticker/2013/may/29/dea-claims-arellano-felix-organization-dead-despit/|access-date=2020-11-05|website=www.sandiegoreader.com|language=en}}</ref> He had formerly been indicted in the United States with many of his other brothers, but he was subsequently released from the 1989 indictment leading to his current freedom. <ref>{{Cite web|last=Mennem|first=K.|last2=May 29|last3=2013|title=DEA official claims Arellano Félix Organization dead, despite current activity in Tijuana {{!}} San Diego Reader|url=https://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/news-ticker/2013/may/29/dea-claims-arellano-felix-organization-dead-despit/|access-date=2020-11-05|website=www.sandiegoreader.com|language=en}}</ref>


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Revision as of 11:01, 5 November 2020

Carlos Alberto Arellano Félix
Born (1955-08-20) August 20, 1955 (age 68)
Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico
Occupation(s)Surgeon by training.
Known to have participated in the Tijuana Cartel

Carlos Alberto Arellano Félix is a 57-year-old Mexican male who is known for his illegal involvement in money laundering for the Tijuana Cartel [1]. Carlos was born on the 20th of August in the year 1955 in the city of Culiacán, Sinaloa. [2] Historian Paul Eiss states that Culiacán is the origin of modern drug trafficking and the home of Mexico’s most powerful drug cartel [3] Carlos is currently working as a license surgeon. [4] He finished his surgical training at the Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara (UAG) [5] The Tijuana Cartel is an organisation that is notorious for being one of the most well-known drug trafficking groups in Mexico to smuggle goods into the United States [6] Carlos’ family is made up of seven brothers and four sisters who inherited the Arellano Felix Organisation from their godfather, Miguel Ángel Félix. [7] Despite Carlos’ involvement in money laundering for the Tijuana Cartel, he is one of two brothers who remains free and is not wanted by the United States law enforcement [8] 

Carlos Arellano’s Early Life

Carlos Arellano Félix was born in the city of Culiacán, Sinaloa in Mexico [9] The city is approximately 58,000 square kilometres situated in north-western Mexico between the towering mountains of the Sierra Madre Occidental and the Gulf of California, south of the border of Sonora and north of the beaches of Nayarit [10] Culiacán is situated on a small coastal plain with remote mountain redoubts, secluded tidal marshes and coastal inlands that allow suitable hideouts for rebels, contrabandists and bandits. [11] The Tijuana drug cartel, in which Carlos was involved in, was originally formed in the 1960s in Sinaloa predominately delivering heroin and marijuana from Sinaloa to the United States. [12] According to Historian Paul Eiss, Culiacán, Sinaloa is a “regional organised crime hub” within Mexico and is the home of one of the most powerful drug cartels [13] Authorities and academics fault the Tijuana’s drug trade for the new wave of violence within Mexico. [14] Sinaloa and Culiacán in particular is commonly associated with the values and the aesthetics of drug dealers. [15]

Family

Carlos’ family is comprised of seven brothers and four sisters who were brought up in the city of Culiacán. [16]Many of Carlos’ immediate and external family members were involved in illegal activity through the Arellano Felix Organisation. [17] Carlos’ family all inherited the Arellano Felix Organisation from their god father Miguel Ángel Félix after his incarceration in 1989. [18]

Benjamín Arellano Félix was the prudent and symbolic leader of the organisation. [19]Carlos’ sisters, Enedina and Alicia, are also involved in the organisation’s illegal activities. In the United States, Four of Carlos’ brothers have been incarcerated. [20] In 2002, another one of Carlos’ brothers, Ramón Eduardo Arellano Félix, was executed in Mexico by police. [21] In 1980, Carlos’s oldest brother Francisco Rafael Arellano Félix was arrested in San Diego after supplying cocaine to a DEA agent. [22] Due to Carlos’ family’s illegal acts, Mexican prosecutors were pursuing superior Mexican traffickers, including the Arellano family and close associates. [23] Despite Carlos’ active role in money laundering for his family’s organisation and an attempted indictment, Carlos is one of two brothers who remain free in Mexico and is not wanted for any criminal charges. [24]

The Tijuana Cartel

The Tijuana Cartel was originally known as the Arellano Felix Organisation. [25] Carlos played an active role within the cartel through money laundering operations. [26] Carlos did this through several of their companies situated within Mazatlán, Guadalajara and Mexico City. [27] These companies consisted of real estate, construction, night clubs, money exchange houses and retailing shops. [28] The Tijuana drug cartel was originally formed in the 1960s in Sinaloa predominately delivering heroin and marijuana from Sinaloa to the United States [29] The former head of Organised Crime Unit of the Mexican Federal Attorney General’s Office (SIEDO), states that the organisation was one of the first main Mexican drug trafficking organisation to drastically increase its kidnapping prior to President Calderon’s offensive against the cartels. [30] According to historian Paul Eiss, in the late 1990s, the organisation was also one of the most prevailing illicit networks in Mexico, smuggling drugs into the United States through increasingly complex tunnels [31]

The Tijuana Cartel Today

The Tijuana Cartel has lost almost all of its first-generation, superior leadership members to either death or arrest, excluding Carlos. [32] The arrests and deaths of Carlos’ family members and constant attacks and conflicts negatively affected the organisation. [33] However, in spite of recent contradictory statements by United States authorities, the organisation currently remains active and alive in Tijuana [34] Although Carlos is presently known to be a licensed surgeon and is unwanted, there are suspicions that he continues to allegedly organise the importation of narcotics into the United States. [35]

Carlos Arellano’s freedom

Between 2000-2010, the Tijuana Cartel lost almost all of its first-generation, the highest leadership members to either arrest or death. [36] However, there are still two remaining Arellano Félix brothers, one of which is Carlos. Both brothers remain free in Mexico with no criminal charges or indictments and are not wanted by United States authorities. [37] Despite Carlos’ alleged involvement in money laundering for the Tijuana Cartel done through multiple companies in central Mexico for the Tijuana Cartel, he went to the Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara and is currently working as a licensed surgeon. [38] He had formerly been indicted in the United States with many of his other brothers, but he was subsequently released from the 1989 indictment leading to his current freedom. [39]

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