The Sinaloa Cartel Joaquin El Chapo Guzmán has been one of the most persecuted drug traffickers, both by Mexican and American authorities. For years he has remained at the head of the Sinaloa cartel, one of the most controlled criminal organizations in drug trafficking. The Sinaloa cartel is located in the town of Culiacan, in the northern state of Sinaloa. Its main leaders are Joaquin El Chapo Guzman and Ismael Zambada García alias El Mayo. He competes for the territory with other cartels like Los
Currently the Sinaloa Cartel utilizes guerrilla type tactics. The cartels in general are accustom to fighting again military forces rather than typical law enforcement techniques. Due to their experience in fighting military forces, they are more of a threat to U.S. forces. Part of their tactics against civilian populous is to instill fear. The cartels are very violent and will threaten the local populous with the lives of their family. They are known for their lethal tactics that involve kidnappings
When the Mexican drug cartel first started out in the 1950’s and 60’s there were not many cartels, but since then there has been a dramatic increase in the number of cartels and the cartels have had a significant impact on the U.S. Throughout the drug cartels’ existence, an estimated 60,000 drug cartel members have been killed fighting other drug cartels for territory. Mexico is a main supplier of marijuana and methamphetamine in the U.S. and nearly 90% of the cocaine that enters the U.S. transits
drug war heavily lead by the Sinaloa Cartel. B. Background: The Sinaloa Cartel has become one of the most predominate suppliers of illegal narcotics in the entire world. The United States alone has provided the cartel with a huge amount of business The Human Rights Watch 2013 report of drug cartel income, "Mexican drug cartels take in between $19 and $29 billion annually from U.S.
There are many drug cartels in the country of Mexico, but one of the most powerful drug trafficking organization in the world being the Sinaloa Cartel. A drug trafficking, money laundering, and organized crime group that still remains the strongest in the country and has the largest presence nationwide. It was founded in 1989 in the city of Culiacan, Sinaloa. The youngest city just up the northwest of Mexico. Not only is it known as the Sinaloa Cartel, it was also known as La Alianza de Sangre, meaning
By definition drug cartels are consider as any organization that promotes, controls, or is significantly involved in drug trafficking. But most of the drug cartel, also traffic other artifices. The first cartels to appeared and to smuggled drug in the United States were the Columbian cartels. Then, the Mexican cartel learn from them and then overpower them. Now, they control drug market and its transportation through the border between Mexico and the United States (a 1,900 miles long border). Cocaine
The Sinaloa Cartel, which was formerly led by Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, maintains the highest presence and impact in the United States. The U.S. law enforcement agencies like Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) have described this cartel as the oldest, largest and most powerful drug trafficking organization in the Western Hemisphere with annual earnings estimating in the billions. Mexican authorities have been attempting to combat drug cartels for over a decade with limited success. Researchers
This paper attempts to examine the characteristics of the Sinaloa Cartel, which is revered as one of the most well established criminal organizations in Latin America having been quoted by Columbian newspaper El Tiempo, as controlling 35% of the cocaine exported from Columbia. Columbia itself is regarded as the largest producer of cocaine in the world. They have long been known to exploit transnational commerce and communications to protect and guide their illicit, profit driven activities. The
The Zetas can trace their origin back to the year 1999, while during an intense war the new head of the Gulf Cartel a man by the name of Osiel Cárdenas Guillén recruited the aid of the retired army officer, mentioned above, Arturo Guzmán Decena with the hopes of maintaining order in the turmoil of his current conflict. Once Decena became established as a high ranking member of the Gulf Cartel, using the promise of greater pay and more liberty, he was able to bring over thirty deserters from the Mexican
The cartels in Mexico over the past years have gotten increasingly brutal. As worldwide demand for illegal drugs increases, so does the violence. There are two major rival cartels currently campaigning to take over Mexico. Popular music lyrics glorify the cartel and attract new young members. Cartels have begun to diversify and are finding new ways to make money and control even larger segments of Mexican industry. Ordinary Mexicans citizens are fed up with all this nonsense, though afraid of
away from all of the crime and violence that occurs everyday. Some places more than others and a great example of that if one was to compare a place like Hawaii to a place infested with violence like Sinaloa a state in Mexico. This is home to one of the most dangerous and powerful drug trafficking cartels the world has seen up to date. The state has been known for long time as a state that is the heart of the contraband trading in Mexico. This region lies in the Northwestern part of Mexico and basically
Mexican drug-trafficking cartels are said to have been established in the 1980s by a man named Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo, also known as “The Godfather”. With the help of Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo and Rafael Caro Quintero, Miguel started the Guadalajara Cartel, which is one of the first to have thrived from association with the Colombian cocaine trade. The two men who helped Miguel Gallardo establish the cartel were arrested, so Gallardo, the single leader of the cartel “was smart enough to privatize
The Influence of the Mexican Cartels in the United States Visiting a tourist attraction in Mexico, tourists do not realize the gruesome reality that Mexican civilians face on an everyday basis. Dead bodies cover the streets, the echo of gun shots ring through the streets daily, and seeing the cartels terrorize businesses. The rise of Mexico’s violence in the past decade has marked the country and made its way to the United States. The United States has ignored the problem for many years, since they
The man agrees and leaves. This was a weekly payment for the protection of the woman's local business against the Juarez Cartel." (Lacey, M. 2010). Many critics are now making comparisons between the Mexican drug cartels, like the one mentioned above, and legitimate corporations like Netflix, or Google. There are currently seven major Mexican drug cartels. Although, the cartels may all come from different backgrounds and have different approaches towards trafficking drugs, they all share a similar
the war between the Mexican government and the drug cartels. When an American buys cocaine, he assists drug cartels to murder thousands of people in Mexico. To explain my point, I will explain my ideas and feeling on that issue and the opposition points of view as well. The Mexican government is losing the war against the drug cartels. This war started in 2008 when the cartels of Los Zetas started a war with the Sinaloa cartel. These two cartels fought over the drug route between Mexico and the United
drug cartel is a combination of drug manufacturing and drug transportation organizations under one person’s leadership. While there is numerous drug cartels around the world the Mexican cartels have arguably more power than most in regards to territory and membership. This power has allowed them to have main control in not only Mexico but in the United States as well making them a key player in the drug trade. In 2006, the Mexican government challenged multiple drug cartels such as the Sinaloa cartel
not been talked about for any of those descriptions I mentioned above lately. Mexico has become a country full of death and violence. The Mexican government has been fighting a war with drug traffickers since December 2006. At the same time, drug cartels have fought each other for control of territory. More than 60,000 people have been killed (CNN). Despite the “war” launched at these multi-billion dollar organized crime groups, Mexico has not been able to stop its slide as a failed state. Almost
narcocorrido began to change, focusing on deadly crimes, shootouts, warnings, and celebration of the Mexican cartels. In 2010, when acts of extreme violence sky-rocketed, Madrid notations narcocorrido bands began aligning themselves with specific cartels. Moreover, the bands became targets themselves. In 2006, a singer Valentin Elizalde was gunned down for performing a narcocorrido glorifying the Sinaloa Cartel in the Gulf Cartel’s territory (Madrid 2013, 100-101).
has happened to the Los Zetas cartel is a good example of how the Mexican drug war is not only between the cartels and the Mexican government. The war on drugs is also between rival cartels and even between members of the same cartel. The fall of the previously mentioned Gulf cartel is not because of the actions by the Mexican government, but it is by the actions of the Los Zetas cartel, a group inside the Gulf cartel that they had trusted. Today, the Los Zetas cartel has not grew weak because of
Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office (Procuraduria General de la Republica, PGR) had issued information related to the conformation of the seven principal drug cartels present at Mexico: Tijuana Cartel / Arellano Felix Organization The eleven Arellano Felix brothers were part of a middle-class family, five of them engage in smuggling clothing and electronics before entering the drug trade. Their uncle Felix Gallardo was no stranger to criminal activity, since being the top leader of the Tijuana