Rafael Cedeño Hernández is a Mexican imprisoned drug trafficker who was a high-level leader of La Familia Michoacana, a drug cartel based in the Mexican state of Michoacán. He was the successor of Alberto Espinoza Barrón, a drug trafficker who was arrested on 31 December 2008 by the Mexican authorities. Rafael Cedeño was arrested on 20 April 2009 during a raid at a baptism party for a baby born to a cartel member.