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In 2009, the Justice Department reported that Mexican drug cartels distribute drugs in nearly 200 cities across the United States, [411] including Los Angeles, Chicago and Atlanta. [412] Gang-related activity and violence has increased along the U.S. Southwest border region, as U.S.-based gangs act as enforcers for Mexican drug cartels. [413]
These drug cartels often use Mexican-American and other Latino gangs to distribute their narcotics in United States. [25] Mexican drug cartels also have ties to Colombian drug traffickers, and other international organized crime. A sharp spike in drug-related violence has some analysts worrying about the 'Colombianization' of Mexico.
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, [40] [41] [42] or the Pacific Cartel, [43] is a large, drug trafficking transnational organized crime syndicate and U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization based in Culiacán ...
Chiapas is Mexico's poorest state. Nearly 70% of its 5.7 million residents — almost a third of them Indigenous — live in poverty. Inequality has long fed discontent, and in 1994 tensions ...
Jardines del Humaya, a cemetery on the outskirts of Culiacán, Mexico,contains many large mausoleums that are the final resting place for some of the state's most prominent drug traffickers.
Despite alliances with the weakened Tijuana Cartel, the CJNG failed to weaken the Sinaloa Cartel's control over criminal activities in Tijuana. [180] Despite numerous efforts, CJNG has also been unable to establish a major presence in the Mexican states of Morelos, State of Mexico and Mexico City. [180]
Cartel activities are widely viewed as contributing to the weakening of democracy in Mexico, a country of 127 million, while escalating U.S.-Mexico tensions. Cartels are the major driver of rising ...
The Tijuana cartel is present in at least 15 Mexican states, with important areas of operation in Tijuana, Mexicali, Tecate, and Ensenada in Baja California, in parts of Sinaloa, [35] and in Zacatecas. After the death in 1997 of the Juárez Cartel's Amado Carrillo Fuentes, the Tijuana Cartel attempted to gain a foothold in Sonora. [9]