In 2007, Juanita states that after her time in prison, she had discovered her husband's involvement with the cartel and that Pilar was right after all; though at first horrified, Juanita had gradually learned to enjoy the lifestyle as well as learning how to use destructive weapons and self defense fighting techniques and had soon become head of the cartel herself - honoring her husband's memory and murdering anyone who stood in her way. She would become one of Mexico's most cold hearted ruthless powerfully influential criminal leaders as well as she began to develop high enjoyments, pleasures, and an extreme high laughing humor in torturing and killing those that offend her. As Juanita became mentally unstable from the trauma of her whole family suddenly being killed that night, she came into the drug cartel as a way to cope with loss of her family as well as a way to continue to feed into her desires to live luxuriously wealthy; which she began to enjoy the high pleasures of making massive fortunes from the drug cartels.