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Map of Mexican cartels' drug traffic routes in Mexico based on a 2012 Stratfor report. The U.S. State Department estimates that 90 percent of cocaine entering the United States is produced in Colombia [118] (followed by Bolivia and Peru) [119] and that the main transit route is through Mexico. [37]
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 ...
Los Talibanes, known to a lesser extant as Los Nortes, [2] are a Mexican criminal organization based in San Luis Potosí and Zacatecas.The name "Los Talibanes" is attributed to Iván Velázquez Caballero "El Talibán" or "El Z-50", who broke with Miguel Treviño Morales, "El Z-40", and allied himself with the Gulf Cartel to displace his former partner.
Bullet casings line Highway 358 between the towns of Palmas Altas and Jerez in Zacatecas, Mexico. The valley of La Sierra Los Cardos is a contested territory of opposing drug cartels.
The U.S. and Mexican governments both face challenges: increased demand for narcotics in the U.S., increased supply of fentanyl in Mexico, and well-armed cartels so embedded in communities that ...
The 2012 Nuevo Laredo massacres were a series of mass murder attacks between the allied Sinaloa Cartel and Gulf Cartel against Los Zetas in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, across the U.S.-Mexico border from Laredo, Texas. The drug-violence in Nuevo Laredo began back in 2003, when the city was controlled by the Gulf Cartel.
A 2020 DEA map shows where different Mexican cartels have influence on American soil. “We are literally under siege,” said Sheriff Kieran Donahue of the Canyon County Sheriff’s Office.
The Cártel del Noreste (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈkaɾtel ðel noˈɾeste], Northeast Cartel) is a Mexican criminal organization that splintered from Los Zetas, following the capture of the latter's last absolute leader Omar Treviño Morales. Their main criminal activities are kidnapping, extortion, vehicle theft, human trafficking, drug ...