Sandra Avila was born in Baja California on October 11, 1960. She is the daughter of Maria Luis Beltran-Felix and Alfonso Avila Quintero, who was a family member to Rafael Caro Quintero, a former leader of Guadalajara cartel. She is the niece to Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo who is the onetime godfather to the Mexican drug industry and is currently serving a forty-year sentence for the death of Enrique Camarena a Drug Enforcement Special Agent (Warner, 2010). Coming from a family with a long history of dealing in drug Sandra is a third-generation drug trafficker. Growing up Sandra is said to have associated with several well-known drug barons, her dealing with this man is believed to be the beginning of her rise to power in the drug dealing industry. She has been married twice to two former police commanders turned drug lords who were later killed by hired assassins. Juan Diego Espinoza Ramirez whom she had a relationship with last is believed to have helped her rise the ranks in the drug industry. Sandra lived in Guadalajara Jalisco and Hermosillo; she is thought to have first gotten involved in drugs from her mother's side back in the 1970s when she dealt in heroin. She later diversified to cocaine but was very careful in her dealings, so the police rarely got any evidence linking back to her. It was not until 2001 when the …show more content…
By this time, it is possible that she could have just started getting into the industry and seeing the success of the others before her, she could have wanted to advance quickly and become as rich as they were. Mexico is not a rich economy, and for drug traffickers and cartel members, there is usually not many options of getting income. As a youth with ambitions, Sandra could have faced the same options as other drug traffickers and having grown up in a family of well-established drug traffickers, getting into the industry could not have been