Mexico cartels: Which are the biggest and most powerful? - BBC
WEBOct 24, 2019 · Mexico's brutal drug war claims thousands of lives every year, as powerful trafficking groups battle it out for territory and influence.
Mexico's 7 Most Notorious Drug Cartels - Business Insider
WEBOct 20, 2014 · The Sinaloa Cartel is the single largest and most powerful drug trafficking organization in the Western hemisphere. The Sinaloa is not a single hierarchical organization. Instead, it...
Mexican drug war - Wikipedia
WEBAs of December 2016, two subgroups calling themselves Los Zetas Grupo Bravo (Group Bravo) and Zetas Vieja Escuela (Old School Zetas) formed an alliance with the Gulf Cartel against a group known as El Cartel del Noreste (The Cartel of the Northeast).
Mexico’s Long War: Drugs, Crime, and the Cartels
WEBAug 5, 2024 · Civil liberties groups, journalists, and foreign officials have criticized the Mexican government’s war with the cartels for years, accusing the military, police, and cartels of widespread human...
The drug lords behind Mexico's most powerful cartels - NewsNation
WEBFeb 4, 2023 · Although the Sinaloa cartel is one of Mexico’s oldest and most influential drug-trafficking groups, it’s far from alone. The Jalisco New Generation cartel (CJNG), a powerful Sinaloa offshoot founded in 2010, has grown its territory and is now considered the second most powerful cartel in Mexico.
Mexico’s cartels luring hundreds of recruits every week, research …
WEBSep 21, 2023 · Organised criminal groups in Mexico employ up to 185,000 people and draw in hundreds of new recruits every week, new research estimates, underscoring the difficulty of dismantling the cartels...
Mexico cartels: Which are the biggest and most powerful?
WEBOct 24, 2019 · Mexico's brutal drug war claims thousands of lives every year, as powerful trafficking groups battle it out for territory and influence.
The Sinaloa Cartel's Strategy for Power - Brookings
WEBApr 4, 2022 · In a new series, Vanda Felbab-Brown outlines the way Mexico’s two largest cartels — the Sinaloa Cartel and Cartel Jalisco Nueva -Generación (CJNG) — as well as smaller criminal groups take over...
Are Mexican drug cartels as powerful as people think?
WEBAug 28, 2024 · Academic Oswaldo Zavala has pushed back at the notion that Mexico's drug cartels are all-powerful, arguing that they could not exist without state support.
How many people work for the Mexican drug cartels ... - Los Angeles Times
WEBSep 21, 2023 · The head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, Anne Milgram, told Congress in July that Mexico’s two most powerful criminal organizations — the Sinaloa cartel and the Jalisco New...
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