Notorious hitman Édgar Valdez Villarreal, alias La Barbie, who had split from the Beltrán Leyva Cartel after the capture of kingpin Arturo Beltrán Leyva, tried to create his own organization in Tepito ...

U.S.-Mexico relations were rattled Wednesday by reports of a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) investigation into drug money connections to Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s ...

A high-level leader of Mexico’s Arturo Beltran-Leyva Cartel, Valdez-Villarreal was showing on the record again Friday, Feb. 17 as the jury deliberated in Luna’s case.

From his investigative work, Cañedo Zavaleta said he also recognized Beltrán Leyva and another Sinaloa member, Edgar Valdez Villarreal, nicknamed “La Barbie,” who was holding a long firearm. “I ...

More than a decade ago, Edgar Valdez Villarreal, a lieutenant to Mr. Beltrán Leyva known as La Barbie for his handsome looks, sent a letter to a newspaper in Mexico, accusing Mr. García Luna of ...

Cartel hitman Edgar "La Barbie" Valdez-Villareal seemingly went missing from a Florida prison in November 2022 -- but now, a source said, he could be the key witness in a federal trial against ...

Many are themselves narcos who were arrested and turned on the cartels, such as Edgar “La Barbie” Valdez Villarreal, who wrote in a 2012 public letter that García Luna had taken bribes.

Writing from prison, Édgar “La Barbie” Valdez Villareal, a drug kingpin from the Beltrán Leyva cartel, accused García Luna and his closest associates of receiving narco money since 2002.

Edgar Valdez Villareal, "La Barbie," center, of the Beltran Leyva drug cartel, is presented to the press at the Federal Police headquarters in Mexico City, on Aug. 31, 2010.

Notorious drug cartel boss La Barbie is reportedly not in the U.S. prison system's custody, forcing Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to ask the country his whereabouts.

News Charlie Jones Senior US News Reporter 22:20, 08 Dec 2022 Updated 22:26, 08 Dec 2022 Edgar Valdez Villareal aka 'La Barbie' (C) of the Beltran Leyva drug carte (Image: AFP via Getty Images) ...

Arturo Beltran-Leyva, the cartel's head, died in December 2009, sparking a bloody conflict between La Barbie and the Beltran-Leyva cartel.