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- drug cartel, an illicit consortium of independent organizations formed to limit competition and control the production and distribution of illegal drugs. Drug cartels are extremely well-organized, well-financed, efficient, and ruthless. Since the 1980s, they have dominated the international narcotics trade.
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The Sinaloa Cartel (Spanish: Cártel de Sinaloa, CDS, after the native Sinaloa region), also known as the Guzmán-Loera Organization, the Federation, the Blood Alliance, [4][5][6] or the Pacific Cartel, [7] is a large, transnational organized crime syndicate based in the city of Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico [8] that specializes in illegal drug ...
Oct 16, 2024 · Now that the violence has boiled over, the government has sent in hundreds of army troops. But irregular urban combat in the heart of a city of 1 million inhabitants — against a cartel that has lots of .50-caliber sniper rifles and machine guns — is not the army’s specialty.
Mar 11, 2023 · Four Americans were kidnapped by a drug cartel, and two of them were murdered, when they visited the town of Matamoros, Mexico. So why would the cartel apologise for the incident and hand over...
The Tijuana Cartel, also known as the Arellano Félix Organization, was once among Mexico's most powerful. [192] It is based in Tijuana, one of the most strategically important border towns in Mexico, [193] and continues to export drugs even after weakening by an internal war in 2009.
