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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. [202] Map of Mexican drug cartels presence in Mexico based on a May 2010 Stratfor report [203] [204]
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 ...
A drug cartel is a criminal organization composed of independent drug lords who collude with each other in order to improve their profits and dominate the illegal drug trade. Drug cartels form with the purpose of controlling the supply of the illegal drug trade and maintaining prices at a high level.
"The members and leaders of the organization are in Mexico, not in the US," a Sinaloa cartel operative told Insider. A new DEA map shows where cartels have influence in the US. Cartel operatives ...
A 2020 DEA map shows where different Mexican cartels have influence on American soil. “We are literally under siege,” said Sheriff Kieran Donahue of the Canyon County Sheriff’s Office.
The country's other major drug ring — the Sinaloa Cartel — is a CJNG rival. The warning was yet another threat directed at local leaders in the border city, and a sign that turf wars between ...
In response to the multiple executions between the drug cartels, the federal government launched a military-led operation in the state of Veracruz, known in Spanish as Operativo Veracruz Seguro. [98] In October 2011, the state of Veracruz was a disputed territory between Los Zetas and the Gulf Cartel and Sinaloa Cartel. [99]
It seems increasingly likely that one cartel is challenging the powerful Sinaloa cartel for control of drug-smuggling territory there.