April 11, 1943 - Pedro Avilés Pérez
Operating out of Sinaloa in the late 1960s, Avilés Pérez helped establish the organizational and logistical foundations that would define Mexican drug trafficking for generations. His use of aircraft to move marijuana across the border into the United States represented a significant tactical innovation, raising the scale and sophistication of smuggling operations beyond what had come before. He is remembered less as an isolated criminal than as a structural forerunner — one whose methods and networks seeded what would eventually become the Sinaloa Cartel.
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Pedro Avilés Pérez (April 11, 1931 – September 15, 1978), also known as "El León de la Sierra" (English: "The Mountain Lion"), was a Mexican drug lord in the state of Sinaloa beginning in the late 1960s.
He is considered to be among the first generation of major Mexican drug smugglers of marijuana. He was also the first known drug lord to use an aircraft to smuggle drugs to the United States.
In the Netflix series Narcos: Mexico, Avilés was portrayed by actor Antonio Lopez Torres.
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