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ArchiveVile female cartel killer 'bathed in victims' blood and had sex with corpses
By Tom Towers
Senior News Reporter
-Cartels are recruiting bloodthirsty female assassins to bolster their ranks, as part of a horrifying campaign to slaughter their enemies and dominate the drugs trade.
One of the most notorious is Juana N - better known by her alias La Peque - who made a rapid, gruesome rise from desperate beginnings into an enforcement role within the Los Zetas cartel in Mexico.
Born in the state of Hidalgo, Juana became a mother at 15 and struggled to support her child. With limited options and deepening poverty, she turned to sex work, a path that eventually introduced her to organised crime.
It was through these contacts that she was recruited into Los Zetas, initially as an informant. She reportedly took part in decapitations, mutilations and extreme acts of violence while working for the cartel.
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She described how she would spend hours on lookout duty, monitoring roads for police or army presence, and if she failed in her task, she’d be punished with confinement and minimal food.
During one prison cell interview, she claimed that she bathed in the blood of her victims, drank it while it was still warm and had sex with the corpses. She is now awaiting sentencing for her horrifying crimes.
Los Zetas aren’t the only gang with merciless female members. Claudia Ochoa Félix - dubbed the 'Kim Kardashian of organised crime' - was part of the notorious Sinaloa Cartel and reportedly worked for its enforcer gang Los Antrax.
The model posed with pink AK-47s, luxury cars, and stacks of cash on social media. She was reportedly married to Jose Gamboa, another drug trafficker who led Los Antrax until his imprisonment.
After his arrest, Felix allegedly headed up the deadly hit squad. Its members typically wear skull rings decorated with diamonds and have carried out brutal acts of violence to consolidate the gang’s position.
In 2011, the gang clashed with Mexican soldiers in southern Culiacan and found three kidnapping victims in a nearby safe house - one of whom had his toes and ears mutilated.
Following the assassination of Los Antrax’s ex-leader Francisco Arce Rubio, the group carried out 20 murders across the state of Sinaloa. Three bodies were found hanging from a bridge in the town of Guamuchil - one of the victims had been tortured and there was a gaping hole left in his abdomen.
The other two casualties were kept in a freezer until they were disposed of. In 2019, Felix was found asphyxiated at a house in the city of Culiacán after drinking and reportedly taking other substances. Her death sparked speculation - some say it was an overdose, but others have suggested cartel retribution.
María Guadalupe López Esquivel, known as “La Catrina”, became one of the most notorious and feared hitwomen of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG).
She oversaw a squad of cold-blooded killers, helped implement ambushes of rival gangs, and co-ordinated attacks on law enforcement targets.
In 2019, this hit squad slaughtered a group of police officers travelling through the state of Michoacan and left 13 of them dead - leaving posters with the initials of the cartel at the scene of the massacre.
La Catrina regularly flaunted designer brands, high‑end cars, gold‑plated weapons, and posed with armed escorts on social media.
Her brutal reign came to an end during a shoot‑out with Mexican federal and state security forces close to Mexico City in 2020. She was blasted in the neck and died shortly after being air‑lifted to hospital.
Bodycam footage from one of the soldiers showed the 21-year-old gasping for breath after a gunshot wound to the throat.
He told her: "Calm down, kid. The helicopter is coming for you. It is coming now, easy, easy, you are going to be okay. Try to hang on."
She died in the helicopter just minutes before it landed at a military hospital.
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