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The Mexican drug war (also known as the Mexican war on drugs; Spanish: Guerra contra el narcotráfico en México, shortened to and commonly known inside Mexico as the war against the narco; Spanish: Guerra contra el narco) [30] is an ongoing asymmetric [31] [32] armed conflict between the Mexican government and various drug trafficking syndicates.
The Sinaloa Cartel (Spanish: Cártel de Sinaloa, CDS, after the native Sinaloa region), also known as the Guzmán-Zambada Organization, the Federation, the Blood Alliance, [4] [5] [6] or the Pacific Cartel, [7] is a large, international organized crime syndicate based in the city of Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico [8] that specializes in illegal drug trafficking and money laundering.
January 2 – Operation Baja California is launched. January 20 – Drug lord Osiel Cárdenas Guillén is extradited to the USA. [ 5][ 6] March 17 – Zhenli Ye Gon is relieved of US$213 million in Mexico City. [ 7] May 14 – Jorge Altriste, head of operations for Mexico's elite police force in Tijuana, is murdered.
Guadalajara Cartel. Drug trafficking, money laundering, extortion, murder, torture, arms trafficking and political corruption. The Guadalajara Cartel ( Spanish: Cártel de Guadalajara ), also known as The Federation (Spanish: La Federación ), was a Mexican drug cartel which was formed in the late 1970s by Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, Rafael ...
Amado Carrillo Fuentes ( / fuˈɛntəs /; December 17, 1956 – July 7, 1997) was a Mexican drug lord. He seized control of the Juárez Cartel after assassinating his boss Rafael Aguilar Guajardo. [1] [2] Amado Carrillo became known as " El Señor de Los Cielos " ("The Lord of the Skies"), because of the large fleet of jets he used to transport ...
The estimate of 175,000 “active cartel members" in Mexico at the end of 2022 captures both full-time and occasional employees, Prieto-Curiel said. Their ranks include peasants cultivating opium ...
Unknown. 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 ...
The Juárez Cartel ( Spanish: Cártel de Juárez ), also known as the Vicente Carrillo Fuentes Organization, is a Mexican drug cartel based in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, across the Mexico—U.S. border from El Paso, Texas. [2] The cartel is one of several drug trafficking organizations that have been known to decapitate their rivals, mutilate ...