![]() The use of fentanyl corresponded with a surge in accidental overdose deaths in the U.S. It also produces counterfeit “M30” pills designed to look like pharmaceutical-grade oxycodone pills, but are purported to not contain any real oxycodone. Most of the cartel's heroin is currently mixed with fentanyl or related chemical analogues to increase the potency of the drug in a cost-effective manner. The cartel is also a significant source of fentanyl. ![]() It is reported to have illicit marijuana growing operations in the remote forests and deserts of California. The city of San Diego in Southern California is referred to by American government officials and the news media as America’s “epicenter for fentanyl trafficking”. It also operates major methamphetamine markets in cities throughout the U.S. Attorney General, the Sinaloa Cartel was responsible for importing into the United States and distributing nearly 200 short tons (180 t) of cocaine and large amounts of heroin between 19. The cartel is a significant importer of drugs and illicit substances into the United States. The feud between these two sides of the cartel is rumored to have been either initiated or exacerbated by the Battle of Culiacán incident when El Mayo reportedly withheld his men from intervening in the conflict between the cartel and the Mexican National Guard after the capture of El Chapo's son, Ovidio Guzmán. However, various sources report that the Guzmán and Zambada factions of the organization are engaged in a power struggle. Īfter the 2016 recapture of its previous leader, Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, the cartel is now headed by Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada García and Guzmán's sons: Jesus Alfredo Guzmán Salazar, Ovidio Guzmán López and Ivan Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar. The Golden Triangle consistently sees the highest amount of law enforcement seizures for fentanyl, typically in kilograms (powder) or pressed pills. The region is a major producer of Mexican opium and marijuana. Within Mexico, the cartel primarily operates in the "Golden Triangle": the states of Sinaloa, Durango, and Chihuahua. The Sinaloa Cartel is widely considered to be the most powerful drug trafficking organization in the world, perhaps even more influential and capable than the infamous Medellín Cartel of Colombia during its prime. It is currently based in Culiacán, in the state of Sinaloa in Mexico, although it has many international operations. It was established in Mexico during the late 1980s as one of several subordinate "plazas" under the Guadalajara Cartel. Jalisco New Generation Cartel Ĭaborca Cartel (rivals of Los Chapitos faction) Los Salazares (trafficking cell in Sonora)įernando Pineda-Jimenez Organization Ismael Zambada García, Iván Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar, Ovidio Guzmán López, Jesús Alfredo Guzmánĭrug trafficking, fentanyl manufacturing, money laundering, weapons trafficking, people smuggling, murder, kidnapping, bribery Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panamá, Colombia, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina Ĭalifornia, Arizona, Utah, Colorado, Ohio, Texas, Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Minnesota, Michigan, Illinois, New York, Oregon Washington Sinaloa, Baja California, Baja California Sur, Durango, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Edomex, Mexico City, Jalisco, Guadalajara, Nayarit, Tepic, Toluca, Zacatecas, Colima, Aguascalientes, Querétaro, Oaxaca, Chiapas, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatán, Quintana Roo Framed by two pieces by award-winning journalist Charles Bowden that set the scene for the reader, this deeply chilling and important book shows us the Mexican drugs war as we've never seen it before.Joaquín Guzmán Loera, Héctor Palma Salazar, Ismael Zambada García, Juan José Esparragoza Moreno Through El Sicario's words we see, for the very first time, the life of a cartel hitman in sober yet graphic detail the distribution of power in this mindblowingly corrupt country and, the contrition of a man who became so disturbed by his day job that he would wake from nightmares throttling his own wife. This is the unvarnished truth about the war on drugs - the murders, the corruption, the warring cartels, the complicity of the American and Mexican governments, by a man who has seen it and shared in the violence. There is a contract on his life of $250,000, and he lives as a fugitive. A Juarez hit man (Sicario) speaks: he has killed hundreds of people, is an expert in torture and kidnapping, and for many years was a commander of the state police, receiving training from the FBI. ![]() ![]() 'If Juarez is a city of God, it's because the devil is scared to come here'. ![]()
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