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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 ...
By 2018 the CJNG was hyped as the most powerful cartel in Mexico. [221] [222] [223] though Insight Crime has said the Sinaloa Cartel is still the most powerful cartel and called the CJNG its closest rival. [224] [172] In 2019, the group was greatly weakened by infighting, arrests of senior operatives, and a war with the Sinaloa Cartel and its ...
Los Zetas was named after its first commander, Arturo Guzmán Decena, whose Federal Judicial Police radio code was "Z1", [34] a code given to high-ranking officers. [35] [36] [37] The radio code for commanding Federal Judicial Police officers in Mexico was "Y" and those officers are nicknamed "Yankees", while Federal Judicial Police in charge of a city was codenamed "Z"; thus they were ...
The San Fernando massacre was one of the most high-profile incidents attributed to the Zetas. It took place in Tamaulipas state in 2010, only 93 miles from the U.S. border. The Zetas killed 72 ...
Drug cartels employ 175,000 people across Mexico making it the fifth largest employer in the country, according to a new study. A vast network of 150 cartels are recruiting upwards of 350 new ...
The concept of the cartel was pushed by the DEA in the late 1970s to show the U.S. public that these organizations had evolved in power and reach, and they had become very dangerous to national ...
Gulf Cartel [2] Grupo Delta [3] [4] Grupo Elite [5] Grupo Guerrero [6] Grupo X [7] Los Balcanes. Grupo Blanco; Los Cabos [8] Los Ciclones; Los Metros; Hells Angels MC [9] [10] Independent Cartel of Acapulco; Individualistas Tendiendo a lo Salvaje; Israeli mafia; Jalisco New Generation Cartel, a.k.a. CJNG; Juárez Cartel, a.k.a. Vicente Carrillo ...
Note: As of 2020 the DEA considered the cartels of Sinaloa-Beltran, Juarez-Linea, Jalisco, Golfo-Noreste-Zetas, La Familia and Rojos-Guerreros to be the most influential cartels in Mexico. [28] Gulf Cartel (The oldest Mexican criminal syndicate, started as Prohibition-era bootlegging gang) Los Zetas (Formerly part of the Gulf Cartel, now ...