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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]
August 20 – The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) disarticulate a large Mexican drug operation in Chicago, knocking out a major distribution network operating out of the city. The drug operation allegedly brought 1.5 to 2 tons of cocaine every month to Chicago from Mexico, and shipped millions of dollars south of the border. [100] [101]
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On 6 April 2011 Mexican authorities found 59 bodies in eight clandestine mass graves in San Fernando, Tamaulipas. [26] This discovery led officials to acknowledge that the Mexican drug cartels had begun to inflict fear through a new modus operandi: "stopping buses and removing passengers, some never to be seen again."
The San Fernando massacre was one of the most high-profile incidents attributed to the Zetas. It took place in Tamaulipas state in 2010, only 93 miles from the U.S. border. The Zetas killed 72 ...
The Guadalajara Cartel (Spanish: Cártel de Guadalajara), also known as The Federation (Spanish: La Federación), was a Mexican drug cartel which was formed in the late 1970s by Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, Rafael Caro Quintero, and Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo in order to ship cocaine and marijuana to the United States.
Oswaldo Zavala is a Mexican academic and writer whose provocatively titled 2022 book — "Drug Cartels Do Not Exist: Narcotrafficking in U.S. and Mexican Culture" — argues for a bold reframing ...
Smith, author of the 2021 book "The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade," pointed out that the model fails to capture the number of police officers, military personnel, politicians ...