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Drug cartels in Mexico control approximately 70% of the foreign narcotics flow into the United States. [120] Mexican cartels distribute Asian [121] methamphetamine to the United States. [37] It is believed that almost half the cartels' revenues come from cannabis. [122] Cocaine, heroin, and increasingly methamphetamine are also traded. [123]
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 Blood Alliance, [4] [5] [6] or the Pacific Cartel, [7] is a large, transnational organized crime syndicate based in the city of Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico [8] that specializes in illegal drug trafficking ...
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 ...
Cartel-controlled border. Organized crime’s strict control at Mexico’s southern border tracks with the growing violence generated by the struggle between the Sinaloa and Jalisco New Generation cartels. The state of Chiapas is only one of their battlegrounds, but it is key to controlling smuggling routes for people, drugs and weapons from ...
A nearly 2,000-mile border separates Mexico and the U.S., but a bilateral relationship unites the countries. ... A 2020 DEA map shows where different Mexican cartels have influence on American soil.
(The Center Square) – As Mexican cartel violence has escalated during the Biden administration, the U.S. State Department announced it is increasing a reward for a Mexican drug lord. The U.S ...
It took place in Tamaulipas state in 2010, only 93 miles from the U.S. border. ... This tactical strategy is used by the two most powerful cartels in Mexico, the Sinaloa Cartel and CJNG, fueling ...
March 27 – Ten people were reported killed in a shootout in Temosachi in the Mexican border state of Chihuahua, where the Sinaloa and Juarez cartels have been fighting for control over drug smuggling routes into the U.S. [295] April 20 – Gunmen kill 16 people in a bar in the capital city of Chihuahua, Chihuahua. [296]