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Drug cartels in Mexico control approximately 70% of the foreign narcotics flow into the United States. [119] Mexican cartels distribute Asian [120] methamphetamine to the United States. [36] It is believed that almost half the cartels' revenues come from cannabis. [121] Cocaine, heroin, and increasingly methamphetamine are also traded. [122]
The Sinaloa Cartel (Spanish: Cártel de Sinaloa, pronounced [ˈkaɾtel ðe sinaˈloa], CDS, after the native Sinaloa region), also known as the Guzmán-Loera Organization, the Federation, the Sinaloa Cartel, [4] [5] [6] or the Pacific Cartel, [7] is a large, terrorist transnational organized crime syndicate based in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico, [8] that specializes in illegal drug trafficking ...
The new Trump administration is "designating the cartels as foreign terrorist organizations" as part of a crackdown on drug trafficking across the U.S.-Mexican border, President Donald Trump said ...
After multiple threats, Tijuana's mayor took to living inside a military barracks.
It took place in Tamaulipas state in 2010, only 93 miles from the U.S. border. ... This tactical strategy is used by the two most powerful cartels in Mexico, the Sinaloa Cartel and CJNG, fueling ...
March 27 – Ten people were reported killed in a shootout in Temosachi in the Mexican border state of Chihuahua, where the Sinaloa and Juarez cartels have been fighting for control over drug smuggling routes into the U.S. [295] April 20 – Gunmen kill 16 people in a bar in the capital city of Chihuahua, Chihuahua. [296]
A nearly 2,000-mile border separates Mexico and the U.S., but a bilateral relationship unites the countries. ... A 2020 DEA map shows where different Mexican cartels have influence on American soil.
Note: As of 2020 the DEA considered the cartels of Sinaloa-Beltran, Juarez-Linea, Jalisco, Golfo-Noreste-Zetas, La Familia and Rojos-Guerreros to be the most influential cartels in Mexico. [24] Gulf Cartel (The oldest Mexican criminal syndicate, started as Prohibition-era bootlegging gang) Los Zetas (Formerly part of the Gulf Cartel, now ...