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By 2018 the CJNG was hyped as the most powerful cartel in Mexico. [223] [224] [225] though Insight Crime has said the Sinaloa Cartel is still the most powerful cartel and called the CJNG its closest rival. [226] [174] In 2019, the group was greatly weakened by infighting, arrests of senior operatives, and a war with the Sinaloa Cartel and its ...
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, transnational organized crime syndicate based in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico, [8] that specializes in illegal drug trafficking and money ...
Gulf Cartel [2] Grupo Delta [3] [4] Grupo Elite [5] Grupo Guerrero [6] Grupo X [7] Los Balcanes. Grupo Blanco; Los Cabos [8] Los Ciclones; Los Metros; Hells Angels MC [9] [10] Independent Cartel of Acapulco; Individualistas Tendiendo a lo Salvaje; Israeli mafia; Jalisco New Generation Cartel, a.k.a. CJNG; Juárez Cartel, a.k.a. Vicente Carrillo ...
The concept of the cartel was pushed by the DEA in the late 1970s to show the U.S. public that these organizations had evolved in power and reach, and they had become very dangerous to national ...
"Mexico is a free, sovereign, independent country. And we do not accept interference in our country." The post Trump Goes After Mexico by Designating Drug Cartels Terrorist Organizations appeared ...
Even though Mexico is the main stage for the most graphic shows of cartel brutality, experts say this follows a similar script used by terrorist organizations elsewhere. “Mexican criminal ...
Los Zetas was named after its first commander, Arturo Guzmán Decena, whose Federal Judicial Police radio code was "Z1", [34] a code given to high-ranking officers. [35] [36] [37] The radio code for commanding Federal Judicial Police officers in Mexico was "Y" and those officers are nicknamed "Yankees", while Federal Judicial Police in charge of a city was codenamed "Z"; thus they were ...
Mexico's cartel-related violence is concentrated in or along drug trafficking routes, borders and ports of entry. Chiapas state has been described by the InSight Crime think tank as "a major ...