Antonio Ezequiel Cárdenas Guillen

Antonio Ezequiel Cárdenas Guillén (March 5, 1962 – November 5, 2010), nicknamed Tony Tormenta, was a Mexican drug lord and co-leader of the criminal organization known as the Gulf Cartel. Antonio was brother of Osiel Cárdenas Guillén and a partner of Jorge Eduardo Costilla Sánchez. Cárdenas is believed to have begun his drug trafficking career during the late 1980s, rising through the ranks of the Gulf Cartel and becoming its leader after the arrest of his brother Osiel Cárdenas Guillén on March 14, 2003. Antonio, along with other Gulf Cartel associates, was responsible for multi-ton shipments of marijuana and cocaine from Mexico to the United States. The Gulf Cartel, originally founded in Mexico the 1930s to smuggle whiskey and other...