The authorities said Acosta, who is also known as "El Diego, " admitted that he had directed or participated in more than 1, 500 murders since 2008, when he became the leader of La Linea -- the enforcement arm of the Juarez cartel -- and a local boss for the cartel in the Mexican cities of Juarez and Chihuahua.

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Ricardo Boone Salmon, a congressman for Chihuahua state, said they were calling on the interior ministry to ban Call of Juarez: The Cartel.

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The Juarez Cartel, also known as the Vicente Carrillo Fuentes Organization, controls drug trafficking in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, including Puerto Palomas, according to the documents.

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