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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]
This is regarded as the first major retaliation made against the cartel violence, and viewed as the starting point of the Mexican drug war between the government and the drug cartels. [1] As time passed, Calderón continued to escalate his anti-drug campaign, in which as of 2008 there were about 45,000 troops involved along with state and ...
Mexican war on drugs: 0.35–0.4 million [139] [140] 2006–present Mexico vs drug cartels: Mexico Song–Đại Việt war: 0.25–0.4 million [141] [142] 1075–1077 Song Dynasty vs. Đại Việt: Indochina Cuban Wars of Independence and Spanish–American War: 0.39 million [143] [144] 1868–1898
Rising murder rates in Mexico are causing a dramatic, measurable decline in national life expectancy, according to a new study. The drug war is reducing the life expectancy in Mexico Skip to main ...
Drug-war related murders in Mexico, 2006–2011. The United States is a lucrative market for illegal drugs . The United Nations estimates that nearly 90% of cocaine sold in the United States originates in South America and is smuggled through Mexico. [ 23 ]
Some 53 people have been killed and 51 others are missing in Mexico's western Sinaloa state since rival factions of the Sinaloa Cartel began clashing on Sept 9, local authorities said on Friday ...
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.
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 ...