Ramon is known as the enforcer. He has been given this name because he is known to be doing all the "dirty work" to help his drug cartel succeed. Ramon Arellano has also been connected to the deaths of 6 police officers. It is said that the Arellano Felix cartel is arguably the most vicious drug cartel in Mexico. When the Tijuana Cartel found out that Jose Patino Moreno and his two colleagues were trying to dig up information about the Tijuana Cartel they were captured by the cartel. They then endured torture rivaling that of medieval times. They were later found a couple days later with their heads smashed near their wrecked car in a ravine beside the Tecate-Mexicali highway ("A Family Affair", 1). This is only one example of the many vicious crimes the Arellano Felix drug cartel has been linked to. The Tijuana cartel is responsible for more than 100 deaths on both sides of the border.
The Tijuana Cartel has many unique ways of shipping drugs into Mexico. Eldredge points out in Ending the War on Drugs that from San Francisco came a report of cocaine being formed into automotive gaskets, floor tiles, children's car seats, and intricately crafted Nativity scenes (142). The Tijuana cartel has done this and many different things to get drugs from Mexico into the United States. Since they are a multi-million dollar organization they can find a lot of people that would be willing to do their dirty work. "Couriers or mules, masquerading as airline passengers frequently swallow condoms full of cocaine or heroin. They are virtually unstoppable, and can bring in a pound or two with a street value of one-hundred thousand or more (Eldredge 143)." .
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