Sinaloa

El Chapo. Drug lord. Mafioso. Sinaloa cartel. Worldwide drug-trafficking operation. El Chapo is the head of arguably the most notorious drug-trafficking operation. Joaquin Guzman Loera, dubbed as El Chapo for his shortness, was born in Mexico to Emilio Guzman Bustillos and Maria Consuelo Loera Pérez. He is known for founding and operating Sinaloa cartel. Eventually, he had built it into a huge global drug-trafficking operation. The exact date of Joaquin's birth is unknown, but it is speculated…

El Chapo a hero or a Villain? Why is it that many Mexicans and, in particular, Sinaloenses (Mexican’s that originate from the state of Sinaloa) mystify the figure of Chapo Guzman? Why is it that a high percentage of them resented his capture and celebrated his escape? In a recent survey that was conducted by Univision (a very respected and trusted source of Hispanic news), they asked Sinaloenses; "With whom would you associate el Chapo with?” and the vast majority responded with characters from…

unremarkable guy, but he became the most powerful drug lord in Mexico.El Chapo was essentially born into the drug trade in Sinaloa, as were countless other families. His entire family worked the fields cultivating poppies to be processed into opium. Growing up, El Chapo was surrounded by a fiction that the illicit drug trade creates to mask its roots.Like many of the children of Sinaloa, El Chapo started contributing to the family business from an early age, bringing lunch to his older…

quickly double. Neighboring Sinaloa states copied this form of method. Several families became powerless after 1982 when Miguel Felix Gallardo created the Guadalajara cartel, an organization inspired by the Medellin cartel. The Medellin cartel modus operandi was to connect some of these families to control the production and distribution of heroin and marijuana within the US (Pacheco, 2009, p.1026). This lead to a pact of non-aggression signed by the Juarez, Tijuana, and Sinaloa-Sonora cartels…

as the Sinaloa Cartel. Pablo Escobar was a Colombian drug lord that was the leader of the Medellin Cartel. These two drug lords have earned billions of dollars from selling drugs all across the world. Joaquin Guzman and Pablo Escobar share similarities and differences in their childhood, prime time, business strategies, and criminal activities. El Chapo’s exact date of birth is still unclear to this day, but two dates are given from different sources which are April 4th, 1957…

formalized commercial enterprises. Up until the early 1900s, the use of opium, cocaine, marijuana, and alcohol were legal in the United States and could be purchased at pharmacies and stores. “Chinese merchants brought opium to Sinaloa back in the late 1800’s...and since then, Sinaloa has been full of opium”(Saviano). A steady series of laws passed in the United States made all drug use illegal. The Mexican Drug Cartels have a lot more power than people think. “The DEA claims the following…

For example, as Dudley documents, a well-organized ambush by the Zetas against a Sinaloa group in Guatemala left 60 dead. The Zetas rely on their paramilitary structure and the violence it presents rather than their roots in the community for their efficacy. By contrast, drug-trafficking groups such as the Sinaloa, La Familia, and Tijuana cartels attempt to integrate themselves socially, politically, and economically into a community, winning the…

trafficking in the mid 1980's best known for the drug empire he established in Los Angeles, California. The C.I.A. has dealt with outside countries for decades under different administrations. They have also made secret agreements with a ruthless "Mexican Sinaloa drug…

Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is known to be the most wanted drug lord in the United States, as well in Mexico. He is the head of the Sinaloa Cartel, which is a criminal organization named after the Mexican coast state of Sinaloa where it was initiated. Guzman was previously taken to jail but escaped in the month of July. This was due to an underground tunnel that was located under his cell, where he was being imprisoned, at the Altiplano Federal Prison. Since his escape, he has been in the run from…

June Beittel states that, in 2006, there were basically four dominant drug trafficking organizations: the Tijuana/Arellano-Felix organization, the Sinaloa cartel, the Juárez/Vicente Carillo Fuentes organization and the Gulf cartel, each one of the cartels wanting their own drug trafficking routes. There were minor squabbles until, the well-established Sinaloa DTO, with roots in western Mexico, fought brutally for increased control of routes through Chihuahua and Baja California with the goal of…