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Sep 19, 2024 · To understand why the Mexican cartels are so powerful, we must explore the historical roots of these organizations, the role of the Mexican government, the impact of the U.S. demand for drugs, and the socioeconomic conditions that allowed the cartels to thrive.
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 the US during...
Jun 13, 2019 · The cartels had to act like regular businesses so they could hide the money they were making from illegal activity. When I found out the pay (the equivalent of £1,000 for one weekend’s work), I...
Jun 15, 2012 · In 2007, Mexican authorities raided the home of Zhenli Ye Gon, a Chinese-Mexican businessman who is believed to have supplied meth-precursor chemicals to the cartel, and discovered $206...
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 ...
May 21, 2024 · In a 2024 report, the US Drug Enforcement Administration called the Sinaloa and Jalisco cartels “transnational criminal organisations” because they are “involved in arms trafficking, money...
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Apr 4, 2022 · In a new series, Vanda Felbab-Brown outlines the way Mexico’s two largest cartels — the Sinaloa Cartel and Cartel Jalisco Nueva -Generación (CJNG) — as well as smaller criminal groups take over...