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  2. Mexican drug war - Wikipedia

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    The Juárez Cartel controls one of the primary transportation routes for billions of dollars' worth of illegal drug shipments annually entering the United States from Mexico. [187] Since 2007, the Juárez Cartel has been locked in a vicious battle with its former partner, the Sinaloa Cartel, for control of Ciudad Juárez.

  3. Crips–Bloods gang war - Wikipedia

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    The Crips and the Bloods, two majority-Black street gangs founded in Los Angeles (L.A.), California, have been engaged in a gang war since the 1970s. [30] [31] The war is made up of smaller, local conflicts between chapters of both gangs, and has mostly taken place in major cities in the United States, especially L.A.

  4. Drug cartel - Wikipedia

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    The Mérida Initiative, a U.S. Counter-Narcotics Assistance to Mexico. Mexican cartels (also known in Mexico as: la Mafia (the mafia or the mob), La Maña (the skill / the bad manners), [21] narcotraficantes (narco-traffickers), or simply as narcos usually refers to several, rival, criminal organizations that are combated by the Mexican government in the Mexican War on Drugs (List sorted by ...

  5. Category:Organized crime conflicts - Wikipedia

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    This category covers violent armed conflicts or turf wars between various criminal groups and organizations, along with responses by government security forces (police or military) against gang violence.

  6. Infighting in the Sinaloa Cartel - Wikipedia

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    On 9 September 2024, a conflict erupted between the primary factions of the Sinaloa Cartel—Los Chapitos and La Mayiza—and their respective armed groups in Culiacán, Sinaloa, and later spread to other municipalities in the state. The conflict stemmed from the capture of two key cartel leaders, Joaquín Guzmán López and Ismael "El Mayo ...

  7. MS-13 - Wikipedia

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    MS-13 is affiliated with the Sureño coalition of gangs which pay tribute to the Mexican Mafia. [134] The gang has colluded with the Mexican Mafia in drug trafficking. [14] [135] Mara Salvatrucha leaders in Mexico have brokered deals with the Zetas, Gulf, Jalisco New Generation, and Sinaloa cartels in order to obtain narcotics and firearms. [10]

  8. In some Latin American drug cartels, women are the violent ...

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    Battles are rarely fought with fists, but with military weaponry and skills that can be mastered equally by all genders. “A [132-pound] woman can’t confront a [198-pound] man with her fists.

  9. 2012 Nuevo Laredo massacres - Wikipedia

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    When Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, the former leader of the Gulf Cartel, was arrested in 2003, the Sinaloa Cartel, sensing weakness, tried to move in on Nuevo Laredo, unleashing a bloody battle. [3] Los Zetas , however, were successful in expelling the Sinaloa organization out of Nuevo Laredo, and have ruled the city "with fear" ever since. [ 3 ]