Sinaloa Cartel
organized crime syndicate
The Sinaloa Cartel (Spanish: Cártel de Sinaloa),[1][2] also known as the Guzmán-Loera Organization, the Pacific Cartel,[3] the Federation and the Blood Alliance,[4][5][6] is an international drug trafficking, money laundering, and organized crime group[7] established during the late 1980s.[8] The cartel is in the city of Culiacán, Sinaloa,[9] with operations in the Mexican states of Baja California, Durango, Sonora, and Chihuahua.[10][11]
The United States calls the Sinaloa Cartel "the most powerful drug trafficking organization in the world"[12] and in 2011, the Los Angeles Times called it "Mexico's most powerful organized crime group."[13] The group makes and sells opium, marijuana, heroin and cocaine. They also do human trafficking.
References
change- ↑ "Sinaloa Cartel Influence is Steadily Growing In Tijuana". Borderland Beat. 23 February 2011.[permanent dead link]
- ↑ Agren, David (28 November 2016). "'The only two powerful cartels left': rivals clash in Mexico's murder capital" – via www.theguardian.com.
- ↑ The latter due to the coast of Mexico from which it originated.
- ↑ "El cártel de Sinaloa, una alianza de sangre". El Universal (in Spanish). 30 July 2010. Archived from the original on 14 January 2015. Retrieved 20 June 2012.
- ↑ Rama, Anahi (7 April 2008). "Mexico blames Gulf cartel for surge in drug murders". Reuters. Retrieved 2008-04-11.
- ↑ Carter, Sara A. (3 March 2009). "100,000-foot soldiers in Mexican cartels". The Washington Times. Retrieved 2009-03-03.
- ↑ "Why are the Sinaloa Cartel the World's Most Powerful Gangsters?". International Business Times UK. 16 September 2014. Retrieved 12 July 2015.
- ↑ "Sinaloa Cartel". Retrieved 20 January 2017.
- ↑ "Mexico's Sinaloa gang grows empire, defies crackdown". Reuters. 19 January 2011. Archived from the original on 12 June 2013. Retrieved 18 September 2011.
- ↑ Freeman, Laurie. State of Siege:Drug-Related Violence and Corruption in Mexico (PDF). Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. pp. 7, 13, 15. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 November 2006.
- ↑ Bailey, John J.; Roy Godson (2000). Organized Crime and Democratic Governability: Mexico and the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands. Univ of Pittsburgh Press. p. 146. ISBN 0-8229-5758-2.
- ↑ "U.S. Intelligence Says Sinaloa Cartel Has Won Battle for Ciudad Juarez Drug Routes". CNS News. 9 April 2010. Archived from the original on 9 June 2012. Retrieved 24 June 2015.
- ↑ Marosi, Richard (24 July 2011). "Unraveling Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel". Los Angeles Times.
