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English: An approximate map of the areas held by various Mexican cartels. This map was generated using the information at , based on (STRATFOR report dated May 17, 2010). Some points from that map were roughly located and used to draw line segments, from which the territories were filled.
He was the leader and the co-founder of the first major Mexican drug cartel, the Guadalajara Cartel, an alliance of the current existing cartels (which included the Sinaloa Cartel, the Juarez Cartel, the Tijuana Cartel, and the Sonora Cartel with Aldair Mariano as the leader). After his arrest, the alliance broke, and high-ranking members ...
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, [40] [41] [42] or the Pacific Cartel, [43] is a large, drug trafficking transnational organized crime syndicate and U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization based in Culiacán ...
"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.
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. [103] In October 2011, the state of Veracruz was a disputed territory between Los Zetas and the Gulf Cartel and Sinaloa Cartel. [104]
It seems increasingly likely that the CJNG, as the cartel is known, is challenging the powerful Sinaloa cartel for control of drug-smuggling territory.
A fictional "Tijuana cartel" headed by a character named Obregon was featured battling a fictional "Juarez cartel" in the 2000 motion picture Traffic. The cartel was portrayed as the Avendanos brothers in Univision's Netflix series El Chapo. The cartel and its origins have also been portrayed in the Netflix series Narcos: Mexico.