April 11, 1943 - Pedro Avilés Pérez

Pedro Avilés Pérez (April 11, 1931 – September 15, 1978), also known as "El León de la Sierra" (English: "The Mountain Lion"), was a Mexican drug lord in the state of Sinaloa beginning in the late 1960s.

He is considered to be among the first generation of major Mexican drug smugglers of marijuana. He was also the first known drug lord to use an aircraft to smuggle drugs to the United States.

In the Netflix series Narcos: Mexico, Avilés was portrayed by actor Antonio Lopez Torres.

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