El Armadillo for Borderland Beat
Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo, better known as Don Neto, one of the original architects of Mexico’s modern drug trade, is now a free man. According to Reforma, as of April 5, 2025, Fonseca Carrillo has fully served his sentence and is no longer under any legal restrictions in Mexico. At 95 years old, the former Guadalajara Cartel boss was released after serving 40 years for his role in one of the most infamous cases in narco history: the 1985 abduction and murder of DEA agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena and his pilot Alfredo Zavala.
