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The threat earlier this month was allegedly signed by the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG,) one of Mexico’s most powerful criminal groups and a primary trafficker of fentanyl into the U.S ...
The Tijuana Cartel (Spanish: Cártel de Tijuana, pronounced [ˈkaɾtel ðe tiˈxwana]), formerly also known as the Arellano-Félix Cartel (Spanish: Cártel Arellano Félix, CAF), is a Mexican drug cartel based in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico.
Uruapan has been the center of a territorial dispute between the Jalisco-based Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) and the Los Viagras cartel based in Michoacán, where Uruapan is located. [1] Reprisal attacks and public killings have been commonplace in the city, and in August 2019, nineteen bodies were disposed of on the road near Uruapan. [ 1 ]
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Crime is increasing at high levels, and is repeatedly marked by violence, especially in the cities of Tijuana and Ciudad Juárez, and the states of Baja California, Durango, Sinaloa, Guerrero, Chihuahua, Michoacán, Tamaulipas, and Nuevo León. [5] Other metropolitan areas have lower, yet still serious, levels of crime.
Nov. 11—Two men who served as drug runners for a Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) drug trafficking organization were sentenced to prison Tuesday following an extensive wiretap investigation ...
By 2018 the CJNG was hyped as the most powerful cartel in Mexico. [223] [224] [225] though Insight Crime has said the Sinaloa Cartel is still the most powerful cartel and called the CJNG its closest rival. [226] [174] In 2019, the group was greatly weakened by infighting, arrests of senior operatives, and a war with the Sinaloa Cartel and its ...
July 14 – The Mexican Army discovers the largest marijuana plantation ever found in the country, 320 km (200 mi) south of San Diego, U.S., in the state of Baja California; consisting of 120 hectares (300 acres) that would have yielded about 120 tons, and was worth about US$160 million. [234]