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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]
Early in his term, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador declared that the drug war in Mexico was over. He said his government would focus more on reducing homicides than on capturing ...
Washington has also been involved with Mexico's own war on drugs already. The United States sent Mexico over $3 billion in security aid from 2008 to 2023. A big question is whether the Mexican ...
March 23 - Mexican authorities publish a List of Mexico's 37 most-wanted drug lords; March 25 – A Mexican Special Forces Unit captures one of Mexico's most-wanted drug smugglers, Héctor Huerta Ríos. [81] March 26 – A US Marshal, Vincent Bustamante who was the subject of an arrest warrant, is found dead in Ciudad Juárez. [82]
According to the 2020 National Drug Threat Assessment, the Sinaloa Cartel is one of the oldest and most established drug cartels in Mexico in charge of exporting and distributing wholesale amounts ...
Operation Michoacán is the first stage of the so-called War Against Drug Trafficking implemented by the federal government of President Felipe Calderón. The joint operation has been questioned about the human rights violations that may have occurred, given the military presence among the civilian population of the state of Michoacán.
An escalating turf war engulfing much of Mexico's heavily Indigenous Chiapas state has displaced thousands as gangs battle for drug- and gun-trafficking routes.
At present, these aforementioned cartels/factions, or remnants of them, are battling each other for control of trafficking routes, influence over the Mexican government, and in retaliation for past offenses and betrayals. This conflict is known as the Mexican Drug War. [30] [31]