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Pedro Avilés Pérez
Mexican drug lord (1931–1978)
Pedro Avilés Pérez, also known as "El León de la Sierra" (English: "The Mountain Lion"),[3][4] was a Mexican drug lord in the state of Sinaloa beginning in the late 1960s.
He is considered to be the first generation of major Mexican drug smugglers of marijuana.[5] He was also the first known drug lord to use an aircraft to smuggle drugs to the United States.[6][unreliable source?]
In the Netflix series Narcos: Mexico, Avilés was portrayed by actor Antonio Lopez Torres.