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'''Arnoldo Rueda Medina''' (born 15 December 1969) is a former Mexican [[drug lord]] and high-ranking leader of [[La Familia Michoacana]], a drug trafficking organization which is based in [[Michoacán]], Mexico.<ref name=MSNBC>{{cite news|title=Gunmen launch deadly raids in central Mexico|url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31867539/#.UKWQneOe_DE|accessdate=16 November 2012|newspaper=[[MSNBC]]|date=11 July 2009|agency=[[The Associated Press]]|archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6CCtuidZd|archivedate=15 November 2012|deadurl=no}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=La Familia Michoacana – Leadership Chart|url=http://www.treasury.gov/press/releases/reports/final%20chart%20%2025%20feb%202010.pdf|publisher=[[United States Department of the Treasury]]|accessdate=16 November 2012|archiveurl= |
'''Arnoldo Rueda Medina''' (born 15 December 1969) is a former Mexican [[drug lord]] and high-ranking leader of [[La Familia Michoacana]], a drug trafficking organization which is based in [[Michoacán]], Mexico.<ref name=MSNBC>{{cite news|title=Gunmen launch deadly raids in central Mexico|url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31867539/#.UKWQneOe_DE|accessdate=16 November 2012|newspaper=[[MSNBC]]|date=11 July 2009|agency=[[The Associated Press]]|archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6CCtuidZd|archivedate=15 November 2012|deadurl=no}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=La Familia Michoacana – Leadership Chart|url=http://www.treasury.gov/press/releases/reports/final%20chart%20%2025%20feb%202010.pdf|publisher=[[United States Department of the Treasury]]|accessdate=16 November 2012|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100310082159/http://www.treasury.gov/press/releases/reports/final%20chart%20%2025%20feb%202010.pdf|archivedate=10 March 2010 |date=15 April 2009}}</ref> |
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Rueda Medina was allegedly in charge of operations under La Familia leaders [[Nazario Moreno González]] and [[José de Jesús Méndez Vargas]], who are both on Mexico's most-wanted list of drug suspects.<ref name=ruedaproceso>{{cite news|title=El Minsa, brazo operativo de La Familia|url=http://www.proceso.com.mx/?p=116929|accessdate=16 November 2012|newspaper=[[Proceso (magazine)|Proceso]]|date=13 July 2009|archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6CCr5AELw|archivedate=16 November 2012|deadurl=no|language=Spanish}}</ref> |
Rueda Medina was allegedly in charge of operations under La Familia leaders [[Nazario Moreno González]] and [[José de Jesús Méndez Vargas]], who are both on Mexico's most-wanted list of drug suspects.<ref name=ruedaproceso>{{cite news|title=El Minsa, brazo operativo de La Familia|url=http://www.proceso.com.mx/?p=116929|accessdate=16 November 2012|newspaper=[[Proceso (magazine)|Proceso]]|date=13 July 2009|archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6CCr5AELw|archivedate=16 November 2012|deadurl=no|language=Spanish}}</ref> |
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Minutes later, a group of more than two dozen gunmen tossed fragmentation grenades and opened fire on the federal police offices where Rueda Medina was being held.<ref name=seis/> Rueda Medina was then taken to Mexico City by dozens of policemen and soldiers. A few hours after Rueda's arrest, convoys of heavily armed gunmen ambushed federal forces across the western state of Michoacán. The gunmen tossed [[hand grenade]]s and opened fire on police stations and at the hotel installations where the officers slept in six major Michoacan cities. There were also attacks in the states of Guerrero and Guanajuato.<ref name=seis>{{cite news|last=Nájar|first=Alberto|title=Ofensiva narco en México|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/mundo/america_latina/2009/07/090711_0158_mexico_michoacan_familia_mf.shtml|accessdate=16 November 2012|newspaper=[[BBC News|BBC Mundo]]|date=12 July 2009|archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6CCu7VJb8|archivedate=16 November 2012|deadurl=no|language=Spanish}}</ref> Five federal officers and two soldiers were killed that day, with ten federal policemen wounded by the reprisals.<ref name=MSNBC/> |
Minutes later, a group of more than two dozen gunmen tossed fragmentation grenades and opened fire on the federal police offices where Rueda Medina was being held.<ref name=seis/> Rueda Medina was then taken to Mexico City by dozens of policemen and soldiers. A few hours after Rueda's arrest, convoys of heavily armed gunmen ambushed federal forces across the western state of Michoacán. The gunmen tossed [[hand grenade]]s and opened fire on police stations and at the hotel installations where the officers slept in six major Michoacan cities. There were also attacks in the states of Guerrero and Guanajuato.<ref name=seis>{{cite news|last=Nájar|first=Alberto|title=Ofensiva narco en México|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/mundo/america_latina/2009/07/090711_0158_mexico_michoacan_familia_mf.shtml|accessdate=16 November 2012|newspaper=[[BBC News|BBC Mundo]]|date=12 July 2009|archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6CCu7VJb8|archivedate=16 November 2012|deadurl=no|language=Spanish}}</ref> Five federal officers and two soldiers were killed that day, with ten federal policemen wounded by the reprisals.<ref name=MSNBC/> |
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Two days later, on 13 July, La Familia gunmen continued the retaliation with an ambush to a police bus, killing 12 federal agents.<ref>{{cite news|title=Mexican police, soldiers killed in multicity attacks by drug gang|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/07/11/mexico.attack/index.html|accessdate=16 November 2012|newspaper=[[CNN]]|date=12 July 2009|agency=[[Time Warner|Time Warner Company]]|archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6CCowPMeE|archivedate=16 November 2012|deadurl=no}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Sosa Cabios|first=Andrea|title=Bloody revenge in Mexico's drug war|url=http://news.monstersandcritics.com/americas/features/article_1489723.php/Bloody_revenge_in_Mexico_s_drug_war_News_Feature|accessdate=16 November 2012|newspaper=[[Monsters and Critics]]|date=14 July 2009|archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6CCp5ochP|archivedate=16 November 2012|deadurl=no}}</ref> The 11 men and one woman had been kidnapped, tortured, and killed while off-duty as a retaliation attack for the arrest of Rueda Medina.<ref>{{cite news|last=Ellingwood|first=Ken|title=12 slain in Mexico were federal police officers|url=http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-mexico-michoacan15-2009jul15,0,6105278.story|accessdate=16 November 2012|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=15 July 2009|archiveurl= |
Two days later, on 13 July, La Familia gunmen continued the retaliation with an ambush to a police bus, killing 12 federal agents.<ref>{{cite news|title=Mexican police, soldiers killed in multicity attacks by drug gang|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/07/11/mexico.attack/index.html|accessdate=16 November 2012|newspaper=[[CNN]]|date=12 July 2009|agency=[[Time Warner|Time Warner Company]]|archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6CCowPMeE|archivedate=16 November 2012|deadurl=no}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Sosa Cabios|first=Andrea|title=Bloody revenge in Mexico's drug war|url=http://news.monstersandcritics.com/americas/features/article_1489723.php/Bloody_revenge_in_Mexico_s_drug_war_News_Feature|accessdate=16 November 2012|newspaper=[[Monsters and Critics]]|date=14 July 2009|archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6CCp5ochP|archivedate=16 November 2012|deadurl=no}}</ref> The 11 men and one woman had been kidnapped, tortured, and killed while off-duty as a retaliation attack for the arrest of Rueda Medina.<ref>{{cite news|last=Ellingwood|first=Ken|title=12 slain in Mexico were federal police officers|url=http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-mexico-michoacan15-2009jul15,0,6105278.story|accessdate=16 November 2012|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=15 July 2009|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110217154507/http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-mexico-michoacan15-2009jul15,0,6105278.story|archivedate=17 February 2011 |deadurl=no}}</ref> The killing of the agents, whose bodies were found along with a warning note, showed that La Familia Michoacana was eager to directly attack the Federal government of Mexico.<ref>{{cite news|last=Leonard|first=Tom|title=Mexican police officers arrested over murder of federal agents|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/mexico/5865293/Mexican-police-officers-arrested-over-murder-of-federal-agents.html|accessdate=16 November 2012|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|date=19 July 2009|archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6CCusvZ2M|archivedate=16 November 2012|deadurl=no}}</ref> |
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Rueda has been convicted of multiple crimes and is being held at [[Penal del Altiplano]], a maximum security prison.<ref>{{cite news|last=Gómez|first=Francisco|title=Trasladan a La Minsa al penal del Altiplano|url=http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/624367.html|accessdate=16 November 2012|newspaper=[[El Universal (Mexico City)|El Universal]]|date=4 September 2009|archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6CCuIZsdU|archivedate=16 November 2012|deadurl=no|language=Spanish}}</ref> |
Rueda has been convicted of multiple crimes and is being held at [[Penal del Altiplano]], a maximum security prison.<ref>{{cite news|last=Gómez|first=Francisco|title=Trasladan a La Minsa al penal del Altiplano|url=http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/624367.html|accessdate=16 November 2012|newspaper=[[El Universal (Mexico City)|El Universal]]|date=4 September 2009|archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6CCuIZsdU|archivedate=16 November 2012|deadurl=no|language=Spanish}}</ref> |
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==Kingpin Act sanction== |
==Kingpin Act sanction== |
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On 25 February 2010, the [[United States Department of the Treasury]] sanctioned Rueda Medina under the [[Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act]] (sometimes referred to simply as the "Kingpin Act"), for his involvement in drug trafficking along with twenty-one other international criminals and ten foreign entities.<ref>{{cite web|title=DESIGNATIONS PURSUANT TO THE FOREIGN NARCOTICS KINGPIN DESIGNATION ACT|url=http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/Documents/narco_designations_kingpin.pdf|publisher=[[United States Department of the Treasury]]|accessdate=28 May 2014|page=10|date=15 May 2014|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130514025153/http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/Documents/narco_designations_kingpin.pdf|archivedate= |
On 25 February 2010, the [[United States Department of the Treasury]] sanctioned Rueda Medina under the [[Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act]] (sometimes referred to simply as the "Kingpin Act"), for his involvement in drug trafficking along with twenty-one other international criminals and ten foreign entities.<ref>{{cite web|title=DESIGNATIONS PURSUANT TO THE FOREIGN NARCOTICS KINGPIN DESIGNATION ACT|url=http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/Documents/narco_designations_kingpin.pdf|publisher=[[United States Department of the Treasury]]|accessdate=28 May 2014|page=10|date=15 May 2014|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130514025153/http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/Documents/narco_designations_kingpin.pdf|archivedate=14 May 2013 |deadurl=no}}</ref> The act prohibited U.S. citizens and companies from doing any king of business activity with him, and virtually froze all his assets in the U.S.<ref>{{cite web|title=An overview of the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act|url=http://www.assetsearchblog.com/uploads/file/drugs.pdf|publisher=[[United States Department of the Treasury]]|accessdate=28 May 2014|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140528053616/http://www.assetsearchblog.com/uploads/file/drugs.pdf|archivedate=28 May 2014|page=1|date=2009}}</ref> |
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==See also== |
==See also== |
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Revision as of 13:36, 13 September 2016
Arnoldo Rueda Medina | |
|---|---|
| Born | 15 December 1969 Michoacán, Mexico |
| Other names | La Minsa |
| Occupation | La Familia Michoacana leader |
| Criminal status | In prison (Penal del Altiplano) |
| Criminal charge | Organized crime, drug trafficking |
Arnoldo Rueda Medina (born 15 December 1969) is a former Mexican drug lord and high-ranking leader of La Familia Michoacana, a drug trafficking organization which is based in Michoacán, Mexico.[1][2]
Rueda Medina was allegedly in charge of operations under La Familia leaders Nazario Moreno González and José de Jesús Méndez Vargas, who are both on Mexico's most-wanted list of drug suspects.[3]
Criminal career
Rueda Medina was born on 15 December 1969 in the state of Michoacán,[4] and first worked as a tortilla seller before deciding to start his criminal career by stealing automobiles in the year 2000.[5] In 2004, he became the La Familia Michoacana's hitmen lieutenant responsible for tracking down cartel rivals and ordering gunmen to kill members of the Milenio Cartel, which had an alliance with the Sinaloa Cartel.[6]
He reportedly started working for the cartel in 2000, when the drug lords Carlos Rosales Mendoza, José de Jesús Méndez Vargas, and Nazario Moreno González where fighting against the Valencia brothers of the Milenio organization for the control of the smuggling routes in western Mexico.[6] During the mid-2000s, Rosales Mendoza headed the cartel and aligned with the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas to fight the Milenio Cartel. But after the arrests of Rosales Mendoza and of the Gulf Cartel leader Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, Rueda Medina's group broke relations with Los Zetas along with Méndez Vargas and Moreno González. By 2006, he was in charge of coordinating the cartel's narcotics fabrication and smuggling operations.[6] He was also responsible for assigning regional leaders of the cartel, contacting international drug suppliers, and infiltrating several police forces where La Familia Michoacana held a stronghold.[3]
Arrest
After six months of police intelligence, Rueda Medina was arrested on 11 July 2009 by elements of the Mexican Federal Police while he was arriving at his residence in the capital city of Morelia, Michoacán.[7][8]
Minutes later, a group of more than two dozen gunmen tossed fragmentation grenades and opened fire on the federal police offices where Rueda Medina was being held.[9] Rueda Medina was then taken to Mexico City by dozens of policemen and soldiers. A few hours after Rueda's arrest, convoys of heavily armed gunmen ambushed federal forces across the western state of Michoacán. The gunmen tossed hand grenades and opened fire on police stations and at the hotel installations where the officers slept in six major Michoacan cities. There were also attacks in the states of Guerrero and Guanajuato.[9] Five federal officers and two soldiers were killed that day, with ten federal policemen wounded by the reprisals.[1]
Two days later, on 13 July, La Familia gunmen continued the retaliation with an ambush to a police bus, killing 12 federal agents.[10][11] The 11 men and one woman had been kidnapped, tortured, and killed while off-duty as a retaliation attack for the arrest of Rueda Medina.[12] The killing of the agents, whose bodies were found along with a warning note, showed that La Familia Michoacana was eager to directly attack the Federal government of Mexico.[13]
Rueda has been convicted of multiple crimes and is being held at Penal del Altiplano, a maximum security prison.[14]
Kingpin Act sanction
On 25 February 2010, the United States Department of the Treasury sanctioned Rueda Medina under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (sometimes referred to simply as the "Kingpin Act"), for his involvement in drug trafficking along with twenty-one other international criminals and ten foreign entities.[15] The act prohibited U.S. citizens and companies from doing any king of business activity with him, and virtually froze all his assets in the U.S.[16]
See also
References
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- ^ a b "El Minsa, brazo operativo de La Familia". Proceso (in Spanish). 13 July 2009. Archived from the original on 16 November 2012. Retrieved 16 November 2012.
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- ^ Riva Palacio, Raymundo (19 July 2009). "La Minsa: La voluntad de su Dios hizo que sobreviviera Rueda Medina". Zócalo Saltillo (in Spanish). Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 November 2012. Retrieved 16 November 2012.
- ^ a b c "Arnoldo Rueda 'La Minsa', de robar carros a capo del narco". Terra Networks (in Spanish). 13 July 2009. Retrieved 16 November 2012.
{{cite news}}:|archive-url=is malformed: liveweb (help); Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ Malkin, Elizabeth (12 July 2009). "Mexico Posts Are Blitzed After Arrest in Drug War". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 16 November 2012. Retrieved 16 November 2012.
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{{cite news}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ "Mexican police, soldiers killed in multicity attacks by drug gang". CNN. Time Warner Company. 12 July 2009. Archived from the original on 16 November 2012. Retrieved 16 November 2012.
{{cite news}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ Sosa Cabios, Andrea (14 July 2009). "Bloody revenge in Mexico's drug war". Monsters and Critics. Archived from the original on 16 November 2012. Retrieved 16 November 2012.
{{cite news}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ Ellingwood, Ken (15 July 2009). "12 slain in Mexico were federal police officers". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 17 February 2011. Retrieved 16 November 2012.
{{cite news}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ Leonard, Tom (19 July 2009). "Mexican police officers arrested over murder of federal agents". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 16 November 2012. Retrieved 16 November 2012.
{{cite news}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ Gómez, Francisco (4 September 2009). "Trasladan a La Minsa al penal del Altiplano". El Universal (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 16 November 2012. Retrieved 16 November 2012.
{{cite news}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ "DESIGNATIONS PURSUANT TO THE FOREIGN NARCOTICS KINGPIN DESIGNATION ACT" (PDF). United States Department of the Treasury. 15 May 2014. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 May 2013. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ "An overview of the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act" (PDF). United States Department of the Treasury. 2009. p. 1. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 May 2014. Retrieved 28 May 2014.