The street in Mexico that, for over 25 years, bears the name of a famous drug dealer.

With bbad and cymbalsit was the presentation of a street newly paved 2015

The tribute to Juan Nepomuceno Guerra It was directed by Egidio Torre Cantú, then governor of Tamaulipas, and by the Mayor of Reynosa, José Elías Leal. Both appeared before the citizenship for cut the ribbon of this freshly paved street.

Paving work in the colony Territorial reserve included eight streets, with an investment from the state of 8.5 million pesos. However, the day of his presentation, it was not the news.

What made the headlines of local and even national media is that one of the streets bore the name of the founder of one of the media. the most important cartels in Mexico, and who also had the presence in the border state.

The street, located in one of the poor neighborhoods, crosses with North Division and Americo Villarreal; and to date, you can find under this name in Google Maps.

When, at that time, the local authorities were questioned by naming, they just said that the streetHe had been calling for over 25 years and which had been approved during the municipal presidency of Ramón Pérez Garcíawho ruled between 1990 and 1992.

Juan N. Guerra, a legend of narco

Juan N. Guerra started as a traffickerSmuggling of alcohol and tobacco in the 1930s, until it controlled all smuggling activities and bars in the neighborhood. border area of ​​Matamoros.

He is credited with founding the Gulf Cartel and building a smuggling empirealthough he always denied it and only described himself as a "business manfrom Matamoros.

Before die of natural causes in 2001, he gave a short interview to the journalist of the New York Times, Sam Dillonin 1996.

In those years, his name came out in the newspapers because his nephew, Juan García Ábrego, had been arrested in Houston for a cocaine trafficking operation.

On this occasion, Guerra said that he was not a trafficker, but a simple citizen. "Go talk to the president or a general or something important, "concluded the man, who at that moment was already Wheelchair.

In his report, Dillon described Guerra as a cautious bandit who knew how to build his fortune through arms trade, prostitution and another series of illegal activities.

Ramón Antonio Sampayo, then Mayor of Matamoros, describes him as a "legend". The intelligence reports of the United States have described it as a man with great political influence.