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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 Sinaloa Cartel, [4] [5] [6] or the Pacific Cartel, [7] is a large, drug trafficking organization transnational organized crime syndicate based in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico, [8] that specializes in ...
Although Mexican drug trafficking organizations have existed for several decades, their influence increased [34] [35] after the demise of the Colombian Cali and Medellín cartels in the 1990s. By 2007, Mexican drug cartels controlled 90% of the cocaine entering the United States.
Drug trafficking organizations are defined by the United States Department of Justice as, "complex organizations with highly defined command-and-control structures that produce, transport, and/or distribute large quantity "Law enforcement reporting indicates that Mexican DTOs maintain drug distribution networks, or supply drugs to distributors, in at least 230 U.S. cities."
It was a new dynamic: Chinese criminal groups were laundering drug money for the Mexican cartels on an unprecedented scale. In 2015, Donovan had to turn his attention back to El Chapo after the ...
The head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, Anne Milgram, told Congress in July that Mexico’s two most powerful criminal organizations — the Sinaloa cartel and the Jalisco New ...
The Congressional Research Service identified the Tijuana Cartel as one of the four dominant drug trafficking organizations in 2020. [53] The impact on the United States was so significant that heavy involvement by the American government was required. Action by the Mexican Authority alone could not maintain the needed control.
The U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday said that sixty Mexican and foreign nationals had been charged with international drug trafficking, including 12 of the individuals that were sanctioned ...
The Gulf Cartel (Spanish: Cártel del Golfo [ˈkaɾtel ðel ˈɣolfo], Golfos, or CDG) [6] [7] is a criminal syndicate and drug trafficking organization in Mexico, [8] and perhaps one of the oldest organized crime groups in the country. [9] It is currently based in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, directly across the U.S. border from Brownsville, Texas.