The motion picture Traffic was released in 2001 and features a fight between the Juárez Cartel and the Tijuana Cartel .
Some US sources estimate the cartel 's income reached as high as $ 200 million a week under former boss Amado Carrillo Fuentes , who mysteriously died in July 1997.A look inside a giant drug cartel , Christian Science Monitor , 1999 The Juárez Cartel was featured battling the rival Tijuana Cartel in the 2000 motion picture Traffic .
Juárez Cartel