The book Drug Lord by investigative journalist Terrance Poppa, chronicles the rise and fall of Acosta Villarreal through direct interviews he did with this drug lord.
Rafael Aguilar Guajardo took Acosta's place but he was killed soon after by Amado Carrillo Fuentes, who took control of the organization. This feud threatened the establishment of the cartel by Miguel ngel Flix Gallardo, as Avils refused to work together with Acosta. Acosta was involved in a bitter feud with Sinaloan smuggler Pedro Avils. At the height of his power, he was smuggling 60 tons of cocaine per year for the Colombiansin addition to the incalculable amounts of marijuana and. Pablo Acosta Villarreal was a Mexican smuggler who was a part of the Guadalajara cartel, and operated in Ojinaga. He established contacts with Colombians who wanted to smuggle cocaine into the United States using the same routes to Texas Acosta Villarreal was using to ship marijuana and heroin from across the border in Chihuahua.Īcosta Villarreal was killed in April 1987, as detailed in the documentary film American Federale, during a cross-border raid by Mexican Federal Police helicopters and assisted by the FBI in the Rio Grande village of Santa Elena, Chihuahua. Pablo Acosta Villarreal, commonly referred to as El Zorro de Ojinaga ('The Ojinaga Fox') was a Mexican narcotics smuggler who controlled crime along a 200-mile stretch of U.S.-Mexico border. While at first he only managed marijuana and heroin, Acosta Villarreal became increasingly involved in the cocaine trade near the end of his life. Until his death, Pablo Acosta was one of the top narcotics padrinos of Mexico, controlling crime along a two-hundred mile stretch of U.S.-Mexico border. ACOSTA-Villarreal at the time controlled the Ojinaga, Chihuahua, Mexico, Plaza. Through a protection scheme with Mexican federal and state police agencies and with the Mexican army, Acosta was able to ensure the security for five tons of cocaine being flown by turboprop aircraft every month from Colombia to Ojinaga -sometimes landing at the municipal airport, sometimes at dirt airstrips on ranches upriver from Ojinaga.Ĭhains of luxurious restaurants and hotels laundered his drug money. GONZALEZ-Calderoni 1 million to assassinate Pablo ACOSTA-Villarreal. He made his operation base in the once little dusty border town of Ojinaga, Chihuahua, Mexico, and had his greatest power in the period around 1984-1986. Pablo Acosta, arrested in the United States (1968) He was the mentor and business partner of Amado Carrillo Fuentes, the so-called 'Lord of the Skies', who took over after Acosta's death. At the height of his power, he was smuggling 60 tons of cocaine per year for the Colombians -in addition to the incalculable amounts of marijuana and heroin that were the mainstay of his business. Pablo Acosta Villarreal, commonly referred to as El Zorro de Ojinaga ("The Ojinaga Fox") was a Mexican narcotics smuggler who controlled crime along a two-hundred mile stretch of U.S.-Mexico border.
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