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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 ...
A 2024 study from the American Chamber of Commerce in Mexico of 218 companies showed 45% had received demands for protection payments and 12% said that organized crime had "taken partial control ...
The United States sent Mexico over $3 billion in security aid from 2008 to 2023. A big question is whether the Mexican government will take Trump's terrorism sanctions as a supplement to existing ...
2024 Mexican general election: Claudia Sheinbaum is elected as the first female president of Mexico. [24] The ruling party Morena party wins a supermajority in the Chamber of Deputies but not in the Senate, falling short of the two-thirds majority needed to change the Constitution. [25] 2024 Mexican local elections [26] 5 June:
Following the cartel's fragmentation in late 2010 and early 2011, the La Familia Cartel under Méndez Vargas fought the Knights Templar Cartel but on June 21, 2011, Méndez Vargas was arrested by Mexican authorities [6] and in mid-2011 the attorney general in Mexico (PGR) stated that La Familia Cartel had been "exterminated", [207] leaving only ...
A member of the Mexican Army stands guard after an armed attack against the facade of a business selling new and pre-owned cars in Culiacan, Sinaloa State, Mexico, on September 12, 2024.
"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 ...
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, transnational organized crime syndicate based in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico, [8] that specializes in illegal drug trafficking and money ...