Pedro Avilés Pérez Explained

Pedro Avilés Pérez
Birth Date:April 11, 1931
Birth Place:Tamazula, Durango, Mexico[1]
Death Date:[2]
Death Place:Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico
Death Cause:Gunshot wounds
Other Names:El Leon de la Sierra, Sneaky Pete
Known For:Drug lord
pioneered the use of aircraft to smuggle drugs to the United States
Occupation:Drug trafficking
Partner:Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo, Juan José Esparragoza Moreno, Rafael Caro Quintero
Children:Atani Perez

Pedro Avilés Pérez, also known as "El León de la Sierra" (English: "The Mountain Lion"),[3] [4] was a Mexican drug lord in the state of Sinaloa beginning in the late 1960s.

He is considered to be the first generation of major Mexican drug smugglers of marijuana.[5] He was also the first known drug lord to use an aircraft to smuggle drugs to the United States.[6]

In the Netflix series , Avilés was portrayed by actor Antonio Lopez Torres.

Biography

Second-generation Sinaloan traffickers such as Rafael Caro Quintero and Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo would claim they learned all they knew about drug trafficking while serving in the Avilés organization. Killed in a shootout with the Federal Police in September 1978, some people believe Avilés was set up by Fonseca Carrillo, the cartel's treasurer. Caro Quintero, Aviles' foreman in Chihuahua, began acquiring marijuana and poppy plantations. Corruption of state officials was brokered by Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, an emerging capo who had spent time in Sinaloa working as a Sinaloan State Police trooper and serving as bodyguard to Leopoldo Sánchez Celis, governor of Sinaloa.

Notes and References

  1. News: Cuna de narcos se hunde en la miseria. 1 May 2012. El Universal. 20 February 2011. es.
  2. Mitología del "narcotraficante" en México. By Luis Alejandro Astorga Almanza. Publisher: Plaza y Valdes, 1995.,
  3. Web site: La tragedia por la amapola, la flor de la violencia. November 20, 2017. Excélsior.
  4. Web site: Pedro Avilés, el primer jefe del narco en México. Diseño UX/UI: www soychris com | Programación. www.tresite.com. lasillarota.com. 9 March 2018 .
  5. News: Patricia B. . McRae . Reconceptualizing the Illegal Narcotics Trade and Its Effect on the Colombian and the Mexican State . 1998 . Historical Text Archive . Muhlenberg College - Department of Political Science . 2009-08-20 .
  6. Web site: Narco historias sonorenses. https://web.archive.org/web/20090205114730/http://lavidamafiosa.blogspot.com/2008/02/narco-historias-sonorenses.html. dead. February 5, 2009.