Mexico cartels: Which are the biggest and most powerful? - BBC
WEB24 October 2019. Getty Images. Mexico's brutal drug war claims thousands of lives every year, as powerful trafficking groups battle it out for territory and influence. These cartels control vast...
Drug cartel - Wikipedia
WEBDrug cartels form with the purpose of controlling the supply of the illegal drug trade and maintaining prices at a high level. The formations of drug cartels are common in Latin American countries. Rivalries between multiple drug cartels cause them to wage turf wars against each other.
Mexico's drug cartels and gangs appear to be playing a wider …
WEBJun 1, 2024 · The country’s powerful drug cartels have long staged targeted assassinations of mayoral and other local candidates who threaten their control. Gangs in Mexico depend on controlling local police chiefs, and taking a share of municipal budgets; national politics appear to interest them less.
Mexican drug war - Wikipedia
WEBMexican drug cartels have increased their co-operation with U.S. street and prison gangs to expand their distribution networks within the U.S. [44] On March 31, 2014, Enrique Plancarte Solís, a high-ranking leader in the cartel, was killed by the Mexican Navy.
Mexico’s drug cartels are thriving - Financial Times
WEBMay 21, 2024 · Today, the two largest and most powerful cartels, the Sinaloa cartel and the Jalisco New Generation cartel (CJNG), are jostling with smaller rivals such as the Viagras, the...
‘Absolute Warfare’: Cartels Terrorize Mexico as Security Forces Fall ...
WEBAug 31, 2022 · With a steady flow of weapons smuggled from the United States, where gun purchase laws are more lax, the gangs outgun the Celaya police.
Mexico’s Long War: Drugs, Crime, and the Cartels
WEBAug 5, 2024 · Mexican drug cartels are leading suppliers of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, and other illicit narcotics to the United States. The cartels and the drug trade fuel rampant corruption and ...
What we know about the Sinaloa cartel and its leaders | CNN
WEBJul 27, 2024 · CNN — The arrests of two top alleged leaders of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel are an “enormous blow” to the group accused of being responsible for most drugs “killing Americans from coast to...
Mexican drug cartels display horrific brutality for reasons of power
WEBDec 18, 2023 · The criminal group from the northeast of Mexico, an armed wing of the Gulf cartel, set the stage with a series of high-impact events and atrocities, reports show.
Drug cartels in Mexico: How rampant violence is taking hold of …
WEBMay 11, 2022 · The rising number of drug cartels has done little to diminish their power – they still kill, extort, kidnap and traffic drugs and people. Business is going strong and has diversified. But while...
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