A Mexican drug-trafficking family who became an important source of heroin in the US in the 1970s after police dismantled Turkish and European heroin networks. Like the Xalisco Boys, the Herreras were from a ranchero. They operated more like “an old-time organized crime family” than a cartel, working as a system of “independent entrepreneur[s].”
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Herrera Clan Character Timeline in Dreamland
The timeline below shows where the character Herrera Clan appears in Dreamland. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Part 1: Easier than Sugarcane
...Xalisco Boys in the San Fernando Valley. The Xalisco Boys are a bit like the Herreras, a clan of intermarried families from Durango who were the first ranchero family of traffickers....
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