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Jun 03, 1967 Tamaulipas, Mexico 56 years old
Mexican drug lord
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About Víctor Manuel Vázquez Mireles
- Víctor Manuel Vázquez Mireles (born 3 June 1967) is a Mexican suspected drug lord and former high-ranking member of the Gulf Cartel, a criminal group based in Tamaulipas, Mexico.
- Vázquez Mireles joined the cartel during the 1990s and was a trusted enforcer of former kingpin Osiel Cárdenas Guillén.
- He started his career in the cartel as one of his bodyguards and was eventually placed in charge of operations in Tamaulipas and Veracruz.
- He was reportedly responsible for supervising the purchase of drugs intended to be smuggled into the U.S.
- for distribution and for arranging the assistance of corrupt law enforcement officials in the cartel's operations. In 1999, Vázquez Mireles and his associates threatened two U.S.
- agents at gunpoint in Matamoros after the agents traveled there with an informant to gather intelligence on the Gulf Cartel's operations.
- The agents and informant returned to the U.S.
- unharmed but this incident triggered a massive manhunt against Vázquez Mireles.
- He was arrested in March 2003 in Veracruz and sentenced to 7.5 years in November 2006.
- His conviction was later overturned and Vázquez Mireles remained without a sentence for nearly a decade.
- He is a wanted fugitive in the U.S.
- for drug trafficking and assault.
