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Oct 16, 2024 · Residents of Culiacan are mourning their old lives, when the wheels of the local economy were greased by cartel wealth but civilians seldom suffered — unless they cut off the wrong pickup truck in traffic. But the cartel factions have turned to new tactics, including a huge wave of armed carjackings in and around Culiacan.
Jul 15, 2024 · In recent years, tens of thousands of people have died due to fighting between drug cartels in Mexico. The chart uses data from the Uppsala Conflict Data Program to show the country's deaths from “non-state conflicts” over the last thirty years.
Oct 24, 2019 · Mexican cartels often clash with one another, but it's also worth noting that they can form strategic alliances as well. The Sinaloa became the biggest supplier of illegal drugs to...
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Feb 3, 2020 · A researcher who fled crime-beset Mexico returns to interview the drug cartels behind so much of the violence, asking 33 ‘narcos’ everything about their lives, from birth to their latest murder.
Jun 13, 2019 · Historically, much of Northern Mexico was controlled by the Sinaloa cartel – led by the infamous El Chapo – and Los Zetas, a cartel formed of army deserters, controlled much of the east. The...
Aug 28, 2024 · Academic Oswaldo Zavala has pushed back at the notion that Mexico's drug cartels are all-powerful, arguing that they could not exist without state support.
Feb 10, 2014 · Government security forces are fighting the drug cartels in an attempt to re-establish law and order. Rival cartels are at war with each other in bitter territorial battles.
