Juan Nepomuceno Guerra

Juan Nepomuceno Guerra (died July 21, 2001) was a smuggler who founded the Gulf Cartel. During the 1930s he began smuggling whisky across the Mexican-United States border through south Texas. Through shrewd political connections he fostered he was able to control all the contraband moving across the Rio Grande River. In the 1970s his nephew, Juan Garcia Abrego, began utilizing those connections and expanded the cartel into the more lucrative cocaine business. [http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2003/03/15/046n1soc.php?origen=soc-jus.html]

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