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Guadalupe Fernández Valencia, Alias 'La Patrona'

Prosecutors said she managed northbound drug shipments and southbound cash flows as a trusted lieutenant in the Chapitos faction.

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Guadalupe Fernández Valencia, alias ‘La Patrona’ Guadalupe Fernández Valencia, known as “La Patrona,” was one of the highest-ranking women in one of the most powerful drug trafficking organizations in the Western Hemisphere: Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel. Active mainly between 2009 and 2014, she allegedly oversaw the smuggling of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, and marijuana from Mexico into the United States and operated key money laundering networ…

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From Drug Dealer to the Sinaloa Cartel’s Highest-Ranking Woman

From Drug Dealer to the Sinaloa Cartel’s Highest-Ranking Woman When Guadalupe Fernández Valencia, alias “La Patrona,” was photographed sitting in the back of a cop car following her 2016 arrest in Culiacan, Mexico, her expression gave little away.  Wearing a leopard-print cardigan, arms crossed, hair loosely braided, the 60-something’s expression was flat. She looked less like a kingpin nabbed for international drug trafficking charges and more …

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InSight Crime broke the news in on Wednesday, April 8, 2026.
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