Armando Flores helped raise his younger teenage brothers Margarito and Pedro Flores in Little Village when their father moved to Mexico.
But Armando went to prison for drug dealing in the late 1990s and his twin brothers were on their own. Soon, they built an international trafficking business that dwarfed Armando’s operation by forming a partnership with Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera, then the iron-fisted boss of the Sinaloa drug cartel in Mexico.
