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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 ...
Map of violent crime per 100,000 people in the US by state in 2016. The United States of America is the world's largest consumer of cocaine [62] and other illegal drugs. [63] [64] [65] This is a list of American criminal organizations involved in illegal drug traffic, drug trade and other related crimes in the United States:
Rafael Cardona Salazar (d. December 4, 1987), also known as Rafa Salazar, was a Colombian drug dealer who shipped cocaine into the United States through Miami, Florida.He first worked with the Medellín Cartel, potentially heading their operations in the United States, and then at some point switched allegiance to the Cali Cartel.
Cocaine is the second most popular illegal recreational drug in the US behind cannabis, [14] and the US is the world's largest consumer of cocaine. [15] According to the DEA, about 93% of the cocaine in the US originated in Colombia and was smuggled across the Mexico–US border. [16]
A five-year investigation by U.S. officials has uncovered a complex partnership between one of Mexico’s most notorious drug cartels and Chinese underground banking groups in the U.S. that ...
(The Center Square) – As Mexican cartel violence has escalated during the Biden administration, the U.S. State Department announced it is increasing a reward for a Mexican drug lord. The U.S ...
The charges of CIA involvement in Contra cocaine trafficking were revived in 1996, when a newspaper series by reporter Gary Webb in the San Jose Mercury News claimed that the trafficking had played an important role in the creation of the crack cocaine drug problem in the United States. Webb's series led to three federal investigations, all of ...
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]