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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]
This is regarded as the first major retaliation made against the cartel violence, and viewed as the starting point of the Mexican drug war between the government and the drug cartels. [1] As time passed, Calderón continued to escalate his anti-drug campaign, in which as of 2008 there were about 45,000 troops involved along with state and ...
This tactical strategy is used by the two most powerful cartels in Mexico, the Sinaloa Cartel and CJNG, fueling the turf war between them and against government security forces.
Trump's national security adviser, former Rep. Mike Waltz (R–Fla.), introduced a bill in 2023 to authorize war against Mexican cartels—and any other drug trafficker or criminal organization ...
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 ...
The Juárez Cartel (Spanish: Cártel de Juárez, pronounced [ˈkaɾtel ðe ˈxwaɾes]), also known as the Vicente Carrillo Fuentes Organization, is a Mexican drug cartel based in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, across the Mexico—U.S. border from El Paso, Texas. [2]
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 ...
Subsequently, lieutenants from the Milenio Cartel defected to the Gulf Cartel, another major distributor of Colombian drugs in Mexico. As the drug trade expanded in Michoacán, the Gulf Cartel authorized a new enforcer group called Los Zetas in 2003. The Zetas and Gulf cartels formed alliances with a vigilante group known as La Familia Michoacana.