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Pedro Avilés Pérez was shot dead

Pedro Avilés Pérez was a Mexican drug lord in the state of Sinaloa in the late 1960s. He is considered to be the first generation of major Mexican drug smugglers of marijuana. He was also the first known drug lord to use an aircraft to smuggle drugs to the United States.
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(1). Yes
(2). It's impossible to say
(3). No