Enedina Arellano Félix

Who is Enedina Arellano Félix?

Enedina Arellano Félix de Toledo is a Mexican drug lord who leads the criminal organization known as the Tijuana Cartel along with her son Luis Fernando Sánchez Arellano.

Throughout most of the 1980s and 1990s, the Tijuana Cartel was headed by her six brothers, while Enedina advised and helped them in money laundering and financial administration. But after the fall of a financial mastermind in the cartel in the year 2000, Enedina took up the position. According to the Drug Enforcement Administration, Enedina is the world's first female drug lord; she first started working behind the scenes as a money launderer for the Tijuana Cartel but then led the cartel after the arrest of her brother Eduardo Arellano Félix in 2008.

Since most of her brothers are now either arrested or killed, Enedina has managed the financial aspect of the organization, overseen alliances, and taken the lead of the Tijuana Cartel alongside Luis Fernando. Her historical contacts with drug suppliers in Colombia managed to keep the organization afloat.