"My Baker", First Woman to Head a Drug Cartel in Mexico

His real name is Delia Patricia Buendía, but she is known as the "Ma Baker". Tepito He is witness to his great actions. Mexican media consider that it is the first woman at the head of a drug trafficking cartel in the country for marking a turning point in criminal history before the arrival of other drug lords, such as Sandra Ávila Beltrán, "The Queen of the Pacific"

A the organization of "Ma Baker" He is credited with having left in the late nineties the basics of operating major retail cartels in the Valley of Mexico, such as Unión Tepito. As evidenced by the data revealed by the Attorney General of the State of Mexico, the company has managed to exploit more than 100 companies that launder money from their illicit activities.

Their businesses ranged from selling drugs on the street to investing in car washes, phone shops and wrestling programs. He made cartel a family business in which he integrated his son-in-law and his two daughters.

She combined her office as a retail drug sales secretary in Tepito, where she had to compete on the spot. dangerous rivals and with more roots in the streets. His power became such that he received police protection from different companies for eliminate competition and to distribute your merchandise.

In the neighborhood, he was charged with a series of murders rivals and policemen who were not by his side, however, one day he ordered the badbadination of the wrong people and had to leave Tepito to settle in the municipality of Nezahualcoyótl, in the state of Mexico, where his organization joined with the remains of the The cartel of Arellano Felix, one of the most powerful of the country in the nineties, helped her to seize the place and become the chief of the Neza cartel.

In the Neza cartel managed to regroup police officers, former police officers and financial operators. According to the weekly Proceso, federal authorities questioned its existence and operation between 2000 and 2002, while it had shown signs of one of the best organized criminal organizations and with strong estates in the State of Mexico and the country's capital.

It has been provided through great cocaine shipments who arrived at the Mexico City International Airport.

One of the first mistakes of the organization was Mario Roldán's executionDeputy Director for Operational Liaison of the Special Prosecutor for Crimes against Health (FEADS), missing.

In 2002, over a period of 20 days, the "My Baker" and his organization ordered the execution three other police officers: Arturo Pérez Estrada, chief of the Plata base in the Iztapalapa delegation; Guillermo Robles Estrada Liceaga, director of mixed operations of the public security secretariat of the country's capital, and Nicolás Humberto del Águila Jiménez, federal public prosecutor.

At that time, the organization was already present in the states of Morelos, Querétaro, Puebla, Michoacán and its drug distribution network had a long list of federal agents. Only in the controlled Nezahualcóyotl region more than 500 narcotienditas in which he sold about 300,000 doses of cocaine a month, according to Process.

Its protection network included more than 20 public servants, including a federal magistrate and a district judge.

But the luck of "My Baker" has come to an end August 19, 2002, when ministerial police arrived at his home, Poniente Street 29, Colonia La Perla, Neza, accused of federal crimes violation of federal laws against organized crime and against health.

Delia Patricia Buendía was imprisoned in Santiaguito Prison, Almoloya de Juárez, accused of drug trafficking and organized crime. In addition to being reported for ordering the execution of three high-level police commanders and the capital's prosecutor's office. He received a 60-year sentence.

17 years after his capture, the Cartel of Neza It is considered an almost extinct criminal organization.