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The illegal drug trade, drug trafficking, or narcotrafficking is a global black market dedicated to the cultivation, manufacture, distribution and sale of prohibited drugs.
The Counternarcotics and Transnational Threats Command (Spanish: Comando Contra el Narcotráfico y las Amenazas Transnacionales, CONAT) is a military command of the National Army of Colombia tasked with providing assistance to counter-narcotics efforts. [1]
The birth of most Mexican drug cartels is traced to former Mexican Judicial Federal Police agent Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo (Spanish: El Padrino, lit. 'The Godfather'), who founded the Guadalajara Cartel in 1980 and controlled most of the illegal drug trade in Mexico and the trafficking corridors across the Mexico–U.S. border along with ...
Security forces in Mexico have arrested a pilot they suspect of working for Los Chapitos, the Mexican cartel run by sons of the jailed drug lord Joaquín '"El Chapo" Guzmán. The pilot, known by ...
The Ecuadorian Drug War (Spanish: Guerra contra el narcotráfico en Ecuador, transl. 'War against drug trafficking in Ecuador') is an internal conflict in Ecuador waged by the Ecuadorian security forces against criminal groups since the beginning of 2018.
El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency is a non-fiction book of the Mexican drug war written by Ioan Grillo. [1] In El Narco , Grillo takes a close look at the Mexican drug trade, starting with the term "El Narco", which has come to represent the vast, faceless criminal network of drug traffickers who cast a murderous shadow over Mexico ...
Barrio Azteca (U.S. street gang) [46] (Allied with La Linea) El Azul was a Mexican drug lord. He was a former Mexican secret police (DFS) agent. Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel; Caborca Cartel; Lesser-known small-criminal organizations: Los Mexicles (U.S. street gang) [47] Los Texas (street gang) (disbanded) [48]
The Chapare Drug Cartel is a Bolivian criminal organization dedicated to drug trafficking and human trafficking [1] that operates in the Chapare region. [2] For this, several journalists have baptized this organization simply as the Chapare Cartel [3] [4] [5]