after being released from prison, juanita found out that pilar had been right about carlos being in the drug cartel and although at first she was horrified, her unstable mentality and her difficulty with accepting the truth about carlos slowly led her to believe that the drug cartel was just a way of making a living and money and as way of supporting her luxurious lifestyle for her and her family and then as a sick way of coping with her trauma, she slowly began enjoying the lifestyle as well as learning self defense techniques and using destructive weapons and rose to the head of the cartel taking her husband's place and became known for her incredibly ruthless persona. she became one of the most violent cold blooded criminal bosses of mexico who developed a very high joyous pleasure and laughing humor of torturing and killings those that offend her. juanita took over the drug cartel not only as a way to cope with the lost her family, but also to continue supporting the luxurious lifestyle she wanted to have as well as having power and the human connections to find and kill pilar and her entire family and juanita began enjoying the pleasure of making massive fortunes from the drug cartel business. though juanita realized pilar was right about carlos being involved with the drug cartel after all, instead of realizing her mistake in marrying into a criminal family, which would lead to juanita's family being killed even though pilar's role of calling the police to stop the violence that carlos ordered unintentionally and accidentally caused juanita's children to be caught in the police vs. cartel violence, juanita still saw pilar as the only blame for her family's deaths. juanita even stated remembering the grounds, grasses and flowers outside her house being completely stained and soaked by her children's blood from the police shooting. juanita still did not believe that carlos raped pilar and slowly began to have delusional beliefs that it was pilar sexually seducing carlos and killing him. in addition, juanita began to make delusional assumptions that pilar was jealous of juanita's luxurious lifestyle thinking that pilar wanted to intentionally destroy juanita's happiness.