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Joaquin Guzman-Loera began to make a name for himself as a trafficker
and air logistics expert for the powerful Miguel Felix-Gallardo
organization.
Guzman-Loera broke away from Felix-Gallardo and rose to
patron level among the major Mexican trafficking organizations. Presently,
he is incarcerated in Mexico; however, Mexican and United States
authorities still consider him to be a major international drug trafficker.
The organization has not been dismantled or seriously affected by
Guzman-Loera's imprisonment because his brother, Arturo Guzman-Loera,
has assumed the leadership role. The Guzman-Loera organization
transports cocaine from Colombia through Mexico to the United States for
the Medellin and Cali organizations and is also involved in the movement,
storage, and distribution of marijuana, and Mexican and Southeast Asian
heroin. This organization controlled the drug smuggling tunnel between
Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico and Douglas, Arizona through which tons of
cocaine were smuggled.
Guzman-Loera, who has been named in several U.S. indictments, was
arrested on June 9, 1993 in Talisman, Mexico for narcotics, homicide, and
cocaine trafficking and is presently incarcerated at the Almoloya de Juarez
Maximum Security Prison in Toluca, Mexico.

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