Sinaloa Cartel

Sinaloa Cartel The Sinaloa cartel is an international drug cartel syndicate made up of several different organizations. The US intelligence community considers the cartel the most powerful drug trafficking organization in the world. They are known for being extremely violent in expanding its drug business using murder, kidnapping and bribery as a tool. In Mexico, many cartels and drug organization have their origins in the state of Sinaloa. The families that lived in this region during the 1960s and 1970s moved from the contraband trade into the drug business, specifically marijuana. One the first major traffickers was Pedro Avila. He go onto bring in his friend's son Joaquin Loera into the trade, also known as the soon to be notorious “El…

There are many drug cartels throughout the world. One of the most well known and feared is the Sinaloa Cartel. The most notorious member is a man named Joaquín Guzmán, also known as El Chapo made himself a legend in the drug distribution business. Joaquin Guzman, or El Chapo is the name most people think of when talking about drug lords or cartels . El Chapo was born in a small town name Sinaloa, Mexico. When He was young he worked bringing oranges to markets to help out his family until later…

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…

The Sinaloa Cartel has fought brutally for increased control of routes through Chihuahua and Baja California with the goal of becoming the dominant drug trafficking organization in the country and more decentralized structure of loosely linked smaller organization. (Beittel, 2013) Began in 2008, Bush as President of United State and Calderon as President of Mexico agreed to development effort transforming the bilateral relationship by a security agreement package of United States assistance…

head of the El Chapo Sinaloa Cartel, currently the biggest drug empire in the history. Over the years, he has built a corporate that makes him billions of dollars from selling synthetic drugs such as: marijuana, cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine. In fact, he even made it on the Forbes magazine as one of the smartest entrepreneur with his staggering net worth. El Chapo is being admired for his genius schemes on accumulating wealth by smuggling illegal substances throughout the globe by means…

Sinaloa Cartel is distributing Fentanyl in Minneapolis, as we speak. They are the only cartel in Minneapolis and all of Minnesota (“dea.gov”) The Cartel De Sinaloa (C.D.S.) is considered the deadliest cartel ever. According to pbs.org, drug wars are responsible for between 34% to 55% of all homicides, although this number could be higher since only gun-related deaths are counted, not stabbings or strangulations (Breslow). C.D.S. is the largest supplier of heroin and fentanyl in the U.S.,…

to flee to the United States to seek a brighter future for their families. Instead of the situation being calmed down, it gets worse. The Mexican government has been known for being corrupt and for dysfunctional. All of this issue has caused other nation to believe that Mexico is no longer controlled by a government. Many people believe that cartels control Mexico…

which is La Tuna, so… that’s how things have been. Sinaloa Culiacan founded in 1989 from the…

Mexico has been used as a conveyance point for narcotics and contraband between markets in Latin America and the United States. The Mexican Drug War is a continuing, low-intensity war between the Mexican Government and a number of drug trafficking cartels. The major cartels being targeted by the Mexican government are: Los Zetas (Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas), the Sinaloa Cartel (Culiacán, Sinaloa), the Gulf Cartel (Matamoros, Tamaulipa), La Familia Michoacana Cartel (Michoacán), the Tijuana Cartel…

There are numerous places in Mexico that cartels are blooming and taking over. Each region has one that is more in power than the rest. The one that makes it to the top of the top is the mostly known to the public. For example, “the Juarez Cartel… has historically controlled the middle area of the Mexican- United States border” and the “Sinaloa Cartel…is based in the Sinaloa state near the city of Culiacan.” Furthermore, the state of Tamaulipas is invaded by the Gulf cartel. Los Zetas have…