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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, terrorist transnational organized crime syndicate based in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico, [8] that specializes in illegal drug trafficking ...
On 9 September 2024, a conflict erupted between the primary factions of the Sinaloa Cartel—Los Chapitos and La Mayiza—and their respective armed groups in Culiacán, Sinaloa, and later spread to other municipalities in the state. The conflict stemmed from the capture of two key cartel leaders, Joaquín Guzmán López and Ismael "El Mayo ...
Sinaloa is traversed by many rivers, which carve broad valleys into the foothills. The largest of these rivers are the Culiacán, Fuerte, and Sinaloa. [15] Sinaloa has a warm climate on the coast; moderately warm climate in the valleys and foothills; moderately cold in the lower mountains, and cold in the higher elevations.
The area is a trafficking route where the Sinaloa cartel and the Jalisco New Generation cartel are engaged in a turf war. [ 465 ] 25 July – Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada , leader of the Sinaloa Cartel , and Joaquín Guzmán López , son of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán , were arrested by US Federal Agents shortly after landing at a private airfield ...
Sinaloa Cartel logo. Eye-for-an-eye fighting between Los Zetas and the Sinaloa Cartel began in the fall of 2011 in Veracruz, a strategic smuggling state with a large Gulf port. [4] On 20 September, two trucks containing 35 bodies were found in an underpass near a shopping mall in Boca del Río. [5]
In the 2017 video game Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands, the fictional Santa Blanca Drug Cartel (a dangerous drug cartel from Mexico), which has taken control of Bolivia, has a radio station called Radio Santa Blanca, which plays Reggaeton and Narco-Corrido. In the game's lore, the most famous narco-corrido singer is Marcelo Rios. Rios has ...
Los Ninis are the main armed wing of the faction of the Sinaloa Cartel, known as Los Chapitos. [2] Made up of loyal young hit men between the ages of 20 and 35, well-trained in urban combat operations,(Michael Collins)they operate as a security force for the leaders of that faction, as well as to torture and kill anyone who opposed Los Chapitos.
Sinaloa Cartel hierarchy in early 2008. In August 2011, six San Francisco MS-13 members were convicted of racketeering and conspiracy, including three murders, in what was the city's largest-scope gang trial in many years. Another 18 defendants reported to have ties to the gang pleaded guilty before trial.