| Cause of death Gun shots Role drug lord Name Rafael Guajardo | Successor Amado Carrillo Fuentes Occupation Drug lord | |
 Known for Juarez Cartel co-founder Died April 12, 1993, Cancun, Mexico | ||
Predecessor Pablo Acosta Villarreal Similar Pablo Acosta Villarreal , Amado Carrillo Fuentes , Vicente Carrillo Fuentes | ||
Rafael Aguilar Guajardo (1950 - April 12, 1993) was a Mexican drug lord, federal police commander of the Direccion Federal de Seguridad (DFS) in Mexico, and one of the Juárez Cartel co-founders.
When his right-hand man, Pablo Acosta Villarreal, was killed in April 1987, during a cross-border raid by Mexican Federal Police helicopters in the Rio Grande village of Santa Elena, Chihuahua, Rafael Aguilar Guajardo made Amado Carrillo Fuentes his second-in-command.
Mexican police reported that Carlos Maya Castillo, an official also working at the National Security and Investigation Center, assisted Aguilar with information and reservations, provided him with cell phones, and recruited corrupt police agents for Aguilar's criminal organization.
Two days after threatening to reveal his high-level Mexican government contacts, Amado Carrillo Fuentes took over the reins of power in the Juárez cartel after assassinating its boss, Rafael Aguilar Guajardo, and setting off the city’s worst ongoing bout of criminal violence. Aguilar's assets seized by the Attorney General of Mexico (PGR) were valued at $100 million, and they included nightclubs, houses, and a 7000 m² property in Acapulco.