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In 2013, Mexico saw the rise of the controversial grupos de autodefensa comunitaria (self-defense groups) in southern Mexico, para-military groups led by land-owners, ranchers, and other rural inhabitants that took up arms against the criminal groups that wanted to impose dominance in their towns, entering a new phase in the Mexican war on ...
The book was written by Oswaldo Zavala, a Mexican journalist and a professor of Latin American Literature and Culture at the City University of New York. [1] [2] It was first published by Malpaso in 2018 as Los cárteles no existen.
Notable criminally-active gangs in Mexico include: 14K Triad; 18th Street Gang, a.k.a. Mara 18; Barrio Azteca, a.k.a. Los Aztecas; Caborca Cartel; Cártel de Tláhuac Cártel del Noreste [1] Fuerza Anti-Unión Guerreros Unidos; Gulf Cartel [2] Grupo Delta [3] [4] Grupo Elite [5] Grupo Guerrero [6] Grupo X [7] Los Balcanes. Grupo Blanco; Los ...
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 ...
As a result, there was an influx in drug-trafficking across the Mexico–US border, which increased the drug cartel activity in Mexico. By the early 1990s, so much as 50% of the cocaine available in the United States market originated from Mexico, and by the 2000s, over 90% of the cocaine in the United States was imported from Mexico. [ 67 ]
Copying the way the United Nations is named which is Organizacion de Naciones Unidas in Spanish, and commonly abbreviated to "ONU", the group calls itself Organizacion de Narcotraficantes Unidos (ONU) and (in English: United Narcotraffickers Organization).
Narcoculture in Mexico is a subculture that has grown as a result of the strong presence of the various drug cartels throughout Mexico. In the same way that other subcultures around the world that are related to crime and drug use (for example the Scottish neds [1] [2] and European hooligans, [3] [4] [5] or the American street-gangstas, cholos, and outlaw bikers), [6] Mexican narco culture has ...
On 20 October 2010, some of his relatives were arrested in Mexico City on drug trafficking charges: Ismael's brother, Jesus "The King" Zambada, along with Ismael's son and nephew. [29] On 18 June 2014, his son-in-law, Juan Gabriel González Ibarra, husband of Midiam Patricia, died after suffering an electric shock at his home in Culiacán. [30]