Javier Valdez Cárdenas

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In May 2017, Valdez Cárdenas was shot dead by unknown assailants in Culiacán, Sinaloa State. The authorities arrested two men suspected of being accomplices in the murder. In January 2019, a drug trafficker attributed his murder to power struggles within the cartel.