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Nueva Plaza Cartel; Paisas; Pueblos Unidos; Sangre Nueva Zeta; Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel; Sinaloa Cartel, a.k.a. Pacific Cartel Artistas Asesinos; Gente Nueva, a.k.a. Los Chapos; Los Ántrax; Solo Ángeles CM, a.k.a. Solo Angels MC [13] [14] South Pacific Cartel; Tijuana Cartel [15] Vagos MC [16] Zetas Vieja Escuela
In 2009, the Justice Department reported that Mexican drug cartels distribute drugs in nearly 200 cities across the United States, [411] including Los Angeles, Chicago and Atlanta. [412] Gang-related activity and violence has increased along the U.S. Southwest border region, as U.S.-based gangs act as enforcers for Mexican drug cartels. [413]
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, drug trafficking organization transnational organized crime syndicate based in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico, [8] that specializes in ...
An escalating turf war engulfing much of Mexico's heavily Indigenous Chiapas state has displaced thousands as gangs battle for drug- and gun-trafficking routes.
The estimate of 175,000 “active cartel members" in Mexico at the end of 2022 captures both full-time and occasional employees, Prieto-Curiel said. ... has implemented in his battle against gangs ...
Authorities in Mexico said Wednesday they have largely confirmed the contents of a grisly drug cartel video showing gunmen shooting, kicking and burning the corpses of their enemies. In a country ...
Mexican academic Oswaldo Zavala, in his book Drug Cartels Do Not Exist, argues that academics, officials, journalists and writers are mistaken to label the criminal gangs as cartels, noting that they do not meet the definition due to the competitive nature of the drugs trade, and the lack of hierarchal structure. He states that the Mexican ...
The Oaxaca Cartel reportedly joined forces with the Tijuana Cartel in 2003. Fourteen Mexican drug gang members were killed and eight others were injured in a gun battle in Tijuana near the U.S. border on Saturday, April 26, 2008, that was one of the bloodiest shootouts in the narco-war between the Tijuana Cartel and the Sinaloa Cartel.