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Map of Mexican cartels' drug traffic routes in Mexico based on a 2012 Stratfor report The U.S. State Department estimates that 90 percent of cocaine entering the United States is produced in Colombia [ 117 ] (followed by Bolivia and Peru ) [ 118 ] and that the main transit route is through Mexico. [ 36 ]
Héctor Luis Palma Salazar (born April 29, 1960), commonly known as "El Güero Palma", is a Mexican former drug trafficker and leader of the Sinaloa Cartel alongside Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán. [1] After his boss Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo ordered the brutal murder of his family, Palma set out to avenge them. [ 2 ]
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, drug trafficking organization transnational organized crime syndicate based in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico, [8] that specializes in ...
15 April – At least seven people are killed and another is injured during a mass shooting in La Palma resort in Cortazar, Guanajuato. [444] 10 May – Four people are killed during clashes at the Pharr–Reynosa International Bridge, on the Mexico–United States border, between police and suspected cartel members. [445]
Notable criminally-active gangs in Mexico include: 14K Triad; 18th Street Gang, a.k.a. Mara 18; Barrio Azteca, a.k.a. Los Aztecas; Caborca Cartel; Cártel de Tláhuac Cártel del Noreste [1] Fuerza Anti-Unión Guerreros Unidos; Gulf Cartel [2] Grupo Delta [3] [4] Grupo Elite [5] Grupo Guerrero [6] Grupo X [7] Los Balcanes. Grupo Blanco; Los ...
Mexico had 26 homicides per 100,000 people in 2017, then the rate spiked to 29 between 2018 and 2020, according to government statistics. Last year, the government reported, the rate was 24 ...
Mexican actor Luis Gerardo Méndez, who plays police officer Victor Tapia in "Narcos: Mexico," talks about his role and drug trafficking's effects in his country.
Later on that day he was transported to Mexico City. [20] [21] [22] January 16 - Due to concerns of the increase of violence by the capture of El Teo, 1,000 military personnel both army and marines were sent to the most violent areas of Tijuana by the request of Baja California Governor José Guadalupe Osuna Millán. [1]