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In 2016, investigation into transatlantic drug trafficking revealed that the Kinahan Clan, Ireland's largest drug trafficker, among other prominent drug traffickers in Mexico, South America, West Africa, and Europe had created an informal "Super Cartel" in an attempt to improve business and increase buyers.
The head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, Anne Milgram, told Congress in July that Mexico’s two most powerful criminal organizations — the Sinaloa cartel and the Jalisco New ...
This has lead to notable traffickers and kingpins like El Chapo (Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera) being extradited to face real time behind bars in the United States. Drug Trafficking from Latin America has played a major role in the United States for the past 50 years. Most notably in Miami when cocaine production skyrocketed in the 1970s. [6]
As a result, there was an influx in drug-trafficking across the Mexico–US border, which increased the drug cartel activity in Mexico. By the early 1990s, so much as 50% of the cocaine available in the United States market originated from Mexico, and by the 2000s, over 90% of the cocaine in the United States was imported from Mexico. [ 67 ]
Drug cartels employ 175,000 people across Mexico making it the fifth largest employer in the country, according to a new study. A vast network of 150 cartels are recruiting upwards of 350 new ...
For much of his career as a federal drug agent, Ray Donovan had a singular focus: the capture of Mexican cartel boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.When Guzman was finally arrested in early 2014 ...
These drug cartels often use Mexican-American and other Latino gangs to distribute their narcotics in United States. [25] Mexican drug cartels also have ties to Colombian drug traffickers, and other international organized crime. A sharp spike in drug-related violence has some analysts worrying about the 'Colombianization' of Mexico.
Mexico's army appears to be raiding only a handful of active drug labs every month, despite U.S. pressure to crack down on fentanyl trafficking, with facilities that were already out of use ...