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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. [101] In October 2011, the state of Veracruz was a disputed territory between Los Zetas and the Gulf Cartel and Sinaloa Cartel. [102]
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 formed ...
Throughout the 1980s, the cartel controlled much of the drug trafficking in Mexico and the corridors along the Mexico–United States border. [4] [2] It had operations in various regions in Mexico which included the states of Jalisco, Baja California, Colima, Sonora, Chihuahua and Sinaloa among others.
The letters CJNG for the group's formal name, Jalisco New Generation Cartel, is scrawled on the facade of an abandoned home, in El Limoncito, in the Michoacán state of Mexico, Saturday, Oct. 30 ...
The war started after in 2010 when the Los Zetas-La Familia Michoacana war ended with the expulsions or executions of Los Zetas operatives in the states of Jalisco and Michoacán.The newly formed Sinaloa Cartel enforcer group Los Matazetas (Later called Jalisco New Generation Cartel) declared war on the Knights Of Templar Cartel in Michoacán ...
The area is a trafficking route where the Sinaloa cartel and the Jalisco New Generation cartel are engaged in a turf war. [ 465 ] 25 July – Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada , leader of the Sinaloa Cartel , and Joaquín Guzmán López , son of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán , were arrested by US Federal Agents shortly after landing at a private airfield ...
Mexico's top security official announced Thursday what many Mexicans had suspected: the Jalisco drug cartel had long controlled the infamous “Puente Grande” federal prison where convicted drug ...
In 2011 and 2012, during the Mexican drug war, hundreds of people were killed in massacres by rival drug cartels who were fighting for power and territory. These organized-crime syndicates were grappling for control over the drug corridors to the United States, the drug markets in local cities, extortion rackets, and human smuggling.