Francisco Rafael Arellano F%C3%A9lix

Francisco Rafael Arellano Flix was a Mexican drug lord and former leader of the Tijuana Cartel, a drug trafficking organization. He was the oldest of seven brothers and headed the criminal organization early in the 1990s alongside them. Through his brother Benjamn, Francisco Rafael joined the Tijuana Cartel in 1989 following the arrest of Miguel ngel Flix Gallardo, one of the most prominent drug czars in Mexico during the 1980s. When the Arellano Flix took control of the organization in the early 1990s, tensions with the rival Sinaloa Cartel prompted violent attacks and slayings from both fronts.

Francisco Rafael Arellano Flix was born in Culiacn, Sinaloa, onOctober 1949, to Benjamn Francisco Arellano Snchez and Norma Alicia Flix Zazueta . His father was from the state of Durango but emigrated to Sinaloa, where he met his wife, in the 1940s. The couple had eleven children, Francisco Rafael being the eldest of his seven brothers and four sisters . He also had two halfbrothers, Jess and Manuel Arellano, but their second surnames remain confidential. Francisco Rafael grew up in a modest house in Miguel Hidalgo St. 566 in Culiacn, blocks away from the Autonomous University of Sinaloa, and lived there for aboutyears. Neighbors recall that the Arellano Flix brothers were cheerful boys without addictions and inclined to selling clothes, licor, and candy that they brought illegally from the United States. Francisco Rafael went to lvaro Obregn elementary school a couple of streets away from their house. He later attended Emilio Obeso middle school in the same neighborhood. At

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