Trafficking in power: Narcoterror in Mexico: "Jesus Manuel Fierro-Mendez was dirty.
In fact, soon after being promoted to the position of captain, he was smuggling enormous quantities of cocaine into the United States. And when he quit his job in the spring of 2007, after someone tried to kill him, he went to work for the Sinaloa drug cartel, Mexico's most powerful drug-trafficking organization, run by Joaquin (El Chapo) Guzman, the richest drug lord in North America and the second most wanted man in the world after Osama bin Laden.
Juarez is a city of 1.3 million people that sprawls across the border from El Paso, Tex., and is a key entry point for narcotics shipped from Mexico to the lucrative U.S. and Canadian black markets. It's also a wild west killing field, the most dangerousmetropolis in the world, where about seven people are murdered every day and 5,300 have been gunned down since January 2008, the result of a vicious war between the Sinaloa and Juarez cartels, who are fighting for control of this prized gateway.
Fierro-Mendez's career as a drug smuggler was short but spectacular: He was arrested in El Paso in 2008 for transporting 50 kilos of cocaine a week across the border. This year, his audacity cost him a 27-year prison sentence."
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