There is a popular belief that the Juárez Cartel was founded by ruthless criminals who rose from the slums to challenge the government. False.
That organization wasn’t born on the streets; it was born in a federal office. Its founder, Rafael Aguilar Guajardo, wasn’t an enemy of the state; he was a Commander in the Federal Security Directorate (DFS).
Crime with Badges and Badges
Rafael Aguilar Guajardo represents Mexico’s darkest period: total symbiosis. He didn’t have to bribe the police to operate, because he was the police. He used the resources, intelligence, vehicles, and credentials of the national security agency to build a trafficking empire on the border.
Under his command, the law wasn’t broken; it was manipulated to benefit the illicit business.
The Employee Who Ate the Boss
History often remembers Amado Carrillo (“The Lord of the Skies”) as the supreme leader of Juárez, but few know that Amado started out as the Commander’s employee.
Rafael taught Amado everything: how to manage logistics, who to bribe, and how to use official protection. But in this business, loyalty has an expiration date. In 1993, in Cancún, the student decided he no longer wanted to take orders. Amado orchestrated the elimination of his own boss and mentor to seize the throne.
Reflection: The Cartel Was Born in the Government
The story of Aguilar Guajardo is definitive proof that organized crime in Mexico was not an “invasion” of bandits, but an institutional metastasis. The cartel was founded, structured, and protected by a federal public official. Understanding this is key to understanding why it has been so difficult to eradicate: you can’t fight an enemy that was designed by your own intelligence agents.
Question: Do you think Amado Carrillo would have become the “Lord of the Skies” without the training and protection he received from a federal commander?
This content has a strictly informational and historical documentation purpose regarding institutional corruption and the origins of criminal organizations. It does not seek to glorify illicit activities.
Sergio Galmich Joachín
Currently referred to as the second tier of the 4T (Fourth Transformation), he has his mentor in Palenque, Chiapas, and has just published a book. He pulls the strings of the puppet in the National Palace.
I completely agree. Just as the Guadalajara Cartel was created by Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, an agent of the Federal Judicial Police who also worked in the now-defunct Sinaloa State Judicial Police, and served as a bodyguard for the governor of Sinaloa, Leopoldo Sánchez Celis, who was key to his beginnings in drug trafficking.
It’s always been this way…it’s just that now everything is politicized, and people are surprised when they say government officials are involved in crime, even though it’s obvious.
And the same thing still happens in Mexico: no one can be big and powerful in drug trafficking and organized crime without the support of the bigwigs in government.
Well, according to history, in published books, several governors and presidents were involved, directly and indirectly colluding! And it goes back to the 1940s. Check the history carefully! And what you publish.
A saying, a proverb, or an open secret: for several decades, approximately 10, the government or governments put you in power and then take you out at the municipal, state, or federal level. True or false?
Every family has good and bad members. Drug trafficking in Mexico began in the early 20th century in Sinaloa with opium, and the United States was its main partner and buyer. Maybe someone remembers hearing people say when they were little, “So-and-so got killed by the police because he was a scumbag.”
It’s all true. Without the complicity of corrupt authorities, those common criminals wouldn’t get so far. They take you in and ask if you want to keep working, but now you have to pay your dues, and that’s how you start. Hahaha, but in reality, they’re the bosses.
This confirms that it was created with the support of the DEA and FBI and the government officials who aligned themselves with it during the 70s and 80s.
Source: maclobinnarra
