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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.
On 11 April 2020, CJNG cell leader María del Carmen Albarrán was arrested in the Venustiano Carranza borough of Mexico City. [ 169 ] In May 2020, it was reported that former CJNG security chief Enrique Alejandro Pizano, who was arrested in September 2015 died in a Jalisco prison on 13 May 2020 due to COVID-19 .
Murders in Mexico since 2006 related to drug trafficking activities. One escalation in this conflict is the traffickers' use of new means to claim their territory and spread fear. Cartel members have broadcast executions on YouTube [322] and on other video sharing platforms or shock sites. Cartels have also hung banners on streets stating ...
Technological University of Guadalajara massacre: March 6, 2024 Guadalajara, Jalisco 3 Gabriel Alejandro Galaviz, armed with a knife and an axe, entered the Universidad Tecnológica de Guadalajara campus and attacked three employees, two women and one man. The women did not survive. Previously, he murdered another woman at a nearby motel.
Juan José Esparragoza Moreno (born February 3, 1949, possibly died June 2014), commonly referred to by his alias El Azul (English: "The Blue One"), was a Mexican drug lord and co-founder of the Sinaloa Cartel, a drug trafficking organization.
September 17 – Over 200 people across Mexico, Guatemala, Italy and the United States, including members of the Gulf Cartel and the 'Ndrangheta are arrested in a major anti-drug trafficking operation called Operation Solare. [27] October 22 – Police capture boss Jesús Zambada García of the Sinaloa Cartel after a shootout in Mexico City. [28]
Four days before the massacre, 18 people were found decapitated and dismembered near Guadalajara (Mexico's second-largest city). [87] The massacre echoed others conducted by drug cartels. [ 88 ] Authorities blamed much of the violence on Los Zetas (a cartel set up by commandos who deserted from the Mexican Army during the 1990s) and the Sinaloa ...
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 Blood Alliance, [4] [5] [6] or the Pacific Cartel, [7] is a large, transnational organized crime syndicate based in the city of Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico [8] that specializes in illegal drug trafficking ...