Currently the Sinaloa Cartel are the most powerful and the most dangerous cartel of the bunch in Mexico. Earning more than $3 billion per year and controlling a majority of the drug routes on the
Mexican-United States border. It is believed the Sinaloa have a presence in all major cities in the United
States as well. Operating mainly in Chicago because 70 percent of the United States population lives in areas that have freeways and railroads intersecting with Chicago. Chicago is also one of the biggest drug markets in the world. A small county near Chicago, Cook County, had 86 percent of the population test positive for at least one illegal narcotic drug that the Sinaloa were importing into the United States in
2012. This was by far the highest …show more content…
Once gaining a monopoly in Chicago, they were able to eliminate a majority of the competition and show to the world once again how dangerous they can be. In 2012, the
Sinaloa left 14 severed heads in front of a mayor’s office in Nuevo Laredo (Bates). They also hung nine bodies on a bridge to prove how ruthless they can be. One person left a tweet in Spanish translated into
English, “We have no law in Nuevo Laredo. Welcome to the jungle!” The Sinaloa also hung a banner next to the people that were hung, a message written in Spanish translated into English, “in this way I am finishing you off.” They also went on to say that one of the victims “cried like a woman giving birth” in the message (Booth). The same area was once a battleground between two rival cartels, Los Zetas and the Gulf Cartel. The Gulf Cartel are allies of the Sinaloa’s and the Sinaloa used the Gulf Cartel to send their message to the political figures of Mexico.
Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzman, the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, was once arrested in 1993 for drug trafficking, conspiracy and bribery. It is said that even in Puente Grande prison, the maximum
Mexican-United States border. It is believed the Sinaloa have a presence in all major cities in the United
States as well. Operating mainly in Chicago because 70 percent of the United States population lives in areas that have freeways and railroads intersecting with Chicago. Chicago is also one of the biggest drug markets in the world. A small county near Chicago, Cook County, had 86 percent of the population test positive for at least one illegal narcotic drug that the Sinaloa were importing into the United States in
2012. This was by far the highest …show more content…
Once gaining a monopoly in Chicago, they were able to eliminate a majority of the competition and show to the world once again how dangerous they can be. In 2012, the
Sinaloa left 14 severed heads in front of a mayor’s office in Nuevo Laredo (Bates). They also hung nine bodies on a bridge to prove how ruthless they can be. One person left a tweet in Spanish translated into
English, “We have no law in Nuevo Laredo. Welcome to the jungle!” The Sinaloa also hung a banner next to the people that were hung, a message written in Spanish translated into English, “in this way I am finishing you off.” They also went on to say that one of the victims “cried like a woman giving birth” in the message (Booth). The same area was once a battleground between two rival cartels, Los Zetas and the Gulf Cartel. The Gulf Cartel are allies of the Sinaloa’s and the Sinaloa used the Gulf Cartel to send their message to the political figures of Mexico.
Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzman, the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, was once arrested in 1993 for drug trafficking, conspiracy and bribery. It is said that even in Puente Grande prison, the maximum