Among the list of most wanted drug traffickers are:
- Joaquín Guzmán Loera (The "Chapo" Guzmán):
Leader of the organization called the Blood Alliance, he became the main drug trafficker. In 2001 he was considered the second man most wanted by the FBI and Interpol after Osama Bin Laden. He was captured in February 2014, escaped and was again trapped in January 2016.
-Pablo Escobar:
Known as the Czar of Cocaine, he ruled for two decades the international drug market. Since it escaped from "its" prison in 1992 until it was shot down in 1993, its cartel killed three officers, seven non-commissioned officers, 103 agents and six members of the secret police, according to official police statistics.
- Amado Carrillo ("The Lord of the Skies"):
Known as "the Lord of the skies," was the Mexican drug trafficker leader of the Cartel de Juarez. The DEA saw that it earned about $ 200 million a week from the sale of cocaine.
- Dawood Ibrahim:
It is identified by the United States Congress as a crime syndicate and is on the Interpol list as the founder of Bombay, a gigantic criminal organization known as the D-Company.
- Griselda Blanco:
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Colombian national is considered the first and only woman to appear on the list of the richest drug traffickers in history. He was a pioneer in employing the "mules," people who carried cocaine inside their bodies.
- Lucky Luciano:
Of Italian origin, Luciano is considered as the father of organized crime being the brain of the great boom of the heroin traffic in the post-war world. His funeral is considered to be the largest ever seen in Naples.
- Frank Lucas:
He is considered the drug trafficker who revolutionized the 1970s, introducing heroin in the United States into the coffins of soldiers killed in the Vietnam War. His life was portrayed in the American Gangster movie, directed by Ridley Scott.
- Bernardo Provenzano:
He was the top leader of the Cosa Nostra Siciliana until his arrest in 2006. Provenzano is related to 127 murders of mafiosos and drug traffickers, his little participation in social life activities have kept him away from photographs and never had an audio about his voice. He died in prison in July 2016.
- Rafael Caro Quintero:
He is the founder of the cartel of Guadalajara being nicknamed the "Narco de Narcos". In 1989 he was sentenced to prison for kidnapping, qualified homicide, planting, growing, harvesting, transportation and trafficking of marijuana, cocaine supply and criminal association. He is currently free.
- Sandra Ávila Beltrán