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"The members and leaders of the organization are in Mexico, not in the US," a Sinaloa cartel operative told Insider. A new DEA map shows where cartels have influence in the US. Cartel operatives ...
A fierce battle between rival drug trafficking organizations broke loose inside a prison on the outskirts of Ciudad Juárez on 5 March 2009. The violence resulted in the deaths of 20 inmates. [ 20 ] It took the guards, police, and Mexican military more than three hours to put down the unrest inside the prison. [ 21 ]
Drug trafficking organizations are defined by the United States Department of Justice as, "complex organizations with highly defined command-and-control structures that produce, transport, and/or distribute large quantity "Law enforcement reporting indicates that Mexican DTOs maintain drug distribution networks, or supply drugs to distributors, in at least 230 U.S. cities."
In the US, around 195 cities have been infiltrated by drug trafficking that originated in Mexico. An estimated $10bn of the Mexican drug cartel's profits come from the US, not only supplying the Mexican drug cartels with the profit necessary for survival, but also furthering America's economic dependence on drugs. [11]
It was a new dynamic: Chinese criminal groups were laundering drug money for the Mexican cartels on an unprecedented scale. In 2015, Donovan had to turn his attention back to El Chapo after the ...
After the arrest last month of two leaders of the Sinaloa drug trafficking organization, The Times' Kate Linthicum spoke with Zavala about the the "kingpin strategy," which targets cartel chiefs ...
La Familia Michoacana was a major Mexican drug cartel based in Michoacán between at least 2006 and 2011. It was formerly allied to the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas, but split off and became an independent organization. [201] Map of Mexican drug cartels presence in Mexico based on a May 2010 Stratfor report [202] [203]
Bodies hanging from bridges is a near daily occurrence, a display that dates to the early 2000s, when it first astonished the population of a small town in central Mexico. Other times, the shows ...