The Sinaloa Cartel is comprised of over 100,000 members that have specific positions within the cartel. “The Sinaloa Cartel is striking in its employees' degree of specialization. Each member has one basic task: physi-cally moving drugs across a single route, maintaining weapons, producing a single drug, guarding a safe house, pic-king up drugs in the United States, patrolling Culiacán in search of rival bands, or executing rivals. The members profess little awareness of other elements of the gangs' operations, but all know their own work quite well (Cororan, 2017).” The cartel utilizes Sinaloa State as their home base, but are also in Sonora State, Durrango State, Baja Cali-fornia State, Mexico. All of the areas that are controlled by the
