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Armando Valencia Cornelio (born 15 June 1954) is a Mexican convicted drug lord and founder of the Milenio Cartel, a defunct criminal group based in Michoacán.

Early life
Armando Valencia Cornelio was born in Uruapan, Michoacán, Mexico, on 15 June 1954. He had several aliases, including El Maradona, El Juanito, Elías Armando Valencia Caballero, and Armando Valencia Peña. His father was Armando Cornelio and his mother was Angela Cornelio Zavala. Valencia Cornelio was reportedly married multiple times. He married his cousin Dora Alicia Cornelio Caballero and had three children with her: César Armando, Edgar Alexis y Christian Alexander. He was also reportedly married with Rosalinda González Valencia, another of her cousins, prior to 1996. He also had another child, Luis Armando Valencia Hernández, with another woman.



On 1 June 2004, U.S. President George W. Bush ordered the United States Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control to sanction Valencia Cornelio under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act. He was sanctioned along with two criminal entities, the Tijuana Cartel and the Juárez Cartel, and seven more individuals: Eduardo Ramón Arellano Félix, Francisco Javier Arellano Félix, Norris Nembhard, Fernando Melciades Zevallos González, Leebert Ramcharan, Iqbal Mirchi, and Haji Bashar. As a result of the sanction, Valencia Cornelio's U.S.-based assets were frozen, and U.S. citizens and companies were prohibited from engaging in business activities with him.


 * Operación Milenio
 * Nexos con CDG
 * Rompimiento con CDG
 * Exilio de Michoacán

Arrest
On 15 December 2003, members of the Grupo Aeromóvil de Fuerzas Especiales, an elite squadron of the Mexican Army, arrested Valencia Cornelio and seven of his alleged associates inside a restaurant in Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, Jalisco. In a press conference on 17 December, Secretary of Defense Gerardo Clemente Ricardo Vega García, Attorney General Rafael Macedo de la Concha and Deputy Attorney General José Luis Santiago Vasconcelos confirmed that the operation was carefully planned and dealt a significant blow to drug trafficking operations in Mexico.

http://www.sedena.gob.mx/leytrans/petic/2006/agosto/03082006c.html

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Mexico-nabs-key-figures-in-drug-case-2560726.php

http://www.jornada.com.mx/2003/08/17/034n1soc.php?printver=1&fly=

https://www.proceso.com.mx/255435/formal-prision-a-miembros-del-cartel-del-milenio

https://mural-guadalajara.vlex.com.mx/vid/revelan-complot-zetas-79438548

https://www.elsiglodetorreon.com.mx/noticia/45139.cae-lider-del-cartel-de-los-valencia.html

https://www.elsiglodedurango.com.mx/noticia/9052.capturan-a-lider-de-cartel-8220-valencia-8221.html

On 7 February 2010, Mexico's Attorney General's Office (PGR) issued a communiqué stating that Valencia Cornelio was sentenced to 47 and a half years in prison by a federal court in the State of Mexico. He was found guilty of drug trafficking and organized crime involvement. In addition to his sentence, he was forced to pay 13,050 days of minimum wage in fines.