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Carlos Fernández (born in Mexico City in 1966) is a Mexican businessman. [1] [2] Fernández was the CEO of Grupo Modelo from 1997 to 2012. [3] Since 2013, Fernández has been CEO of Grupo Finaccess. [4] [5]
According to a 2004 U.S. government Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) indictment, between 1990 and 2004, the Norte del Valle cartel exported more than 1.2 million pounds – or 500 metric tons – of cocaine worth in excess of $10 billion from Colombia to Mexico and ultimately to the United States for resale.
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, [40] [41] [42] or the Pacific Cartel, [43] is a large, drug trafficking transnational organized crime syndicate and U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization based in Culiacán ...
In January 2009, Rodolfo de la Guardia García, ex-director of Mexico's Interpol office, was arrested. [332] Julio César Godoy Toscano, who was just elected July 6, 2009, to the lower house of Congress, is charged with being a top-ranking member of La Familia Michoacana drug cartel and of protecting this cartel. [333] He is now a fugitive.
The Mérida Initiative (named after Mérida, the city where it was agreed upon), also called Plan Mexico (in reference to Plan Colombia), was a security cooperation agreement among the United States, the government of Mexico, and the countries of Central America, that ran from from 2007 to 2021. [1]
According to Ignatiy Vishnevetsky of The A.V. Club, the film is "[b]oth an unflinching record of Mexico's drug war and an investigation of how violence becomes unreal and glamorized". [ 11 ] Following its screening at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival , Justin Lowe of The Hollywood Reporter said "This issue-based journalism piece yields ...
Focusing on the end of the PRI dictatorship in the late 1990s and the contemporary era, Zavala claims that much of the narrative around narcotics trafficking is based solely in the claims of the US and Mexican governments and various cultural depictions, with little connection to the trade as it exists.
As a result, there was an influx in drug-trafficking across the Mexico–US border, which increased the drug cartel activity in Mexico. By the early 1990s, so much as 50% of the cocaine available in the United States market originated from Mexico, and by the 2000s, over 90% of the cocaine in the United States was imported from Mexico. [ 67 ]