Sinaloa Cartel: The Role Of Money Laundering In The United States

The United States agency of drugs have discovered that for all of the illegal drugs consumed in the nation has been transported by the Mexican cartels. “U.S. federal officials say that the mexican cartels operate in dozens of U.S. cities and analysts say they are moving to consolidate their control of the entire supply chain of illegals drugs”(Schwartz, 1). The government of the United States have been conducting the investigation to now if the cartels are north. Many big cities today have a piece of the cartel organization working there and also producing drugs to distribute within the city. According to the investigation done by the DEA and U.N officials “Mexican cartels have established command - and - control centers to orchestrate cocaine shipments by sea and air along the still wild caribbean coast with the help of local authorities”(Booth, 2). All though that the cartel are moving to the United States they are still leaving command center in mexico to conduct shipments by ground or any other shipments overseas. The cartel is able to transport such quantities of drugs with help of the local authorities and other corrupt government officials.

Revenue is the total amount of income that is brought by a company, city or country. While the drug cartels average out about 22 billion dollars annually since the drug war began Mexico has lost an abundance of cash flow and customers due to the drug war. Despite the terror everyone around the country talks about they still venture into Mexico providing them with an astonishing 13.8 billion dollars from 2006 to 2008. It is clear to see that the total amount of money going both ways is staggering, but more money is flowing into the drug cartels hands. This money is being used to purchase drugs and weapons. CNN reporter states that that over 70% of the weapons that have been removed from cartels or found at crime scenes are traced back to the United States of America. With the cartels in possession of so much of the revenue that used

“Today's wholesale cocaine industry operated by Mexico's cartel is a $30 billion per year business -- a figure that easily outstrips revenues reported by giants like Ford, General Motors,

The Gulf Cartel has a intricate reach into the United States through: supply lines, smuggling routes, and communication lines all maintained by lower level leadership in the cartel to ensure products reach their destination and that the money is returned to Mexico. In recent years, The Gulf Cartel has been plagued with several issues including; many high level arrests and the split between the Gulf Cartel and their protection wing, the Zetas. They have been losing leadership and fighting a territorial war with the Zetas, who are heavily invested in the same areas as the Gulf Cartel. The Zeta group exemplifies diversity. They use different ways to gain revenue. When they defected from the Gulf Cartel they were initially

bia. Both these countries have given birth to some of the most notorious “Cartels” the world has

According to the U.S. Department of Justice National Drug Intelligence Center, drug cartels can be define as “…large, highly sophisticated organizations composed of multiple [Drug Trafficking Organizations] DTOs and cells with specific assignments such as drug transportation, security/enforcement, or money laundering” (2010). Also, it is mention within this national drug threat assessment that was done by the U.S. Department of Justice, that the “greatest drug trafficking threat” to the United States is “Mexico” (2010). With this been said one can understand that the roots majority of the criminal groups that operate domestically within the U.S. can be traced back to Mexico. So, in order to understand how this criminal organizations form

The most activity that these cartels do is around the United States and Mexican border by transporting illegal substances and even people and putting many people in danger not just in Mexico but in the United States. But also the economy is being hurt because the United States losing about one point six million dollars annually to these cartels contributing to smuggling and the U.S is number drug using country all around the world. While more and more smuggling is happening cartel kingpin for example Joaquin Guzman is getting more powerful and being the number one supplier to Chicago that most of these narcotics are being distributed. Statistics of that came from the DEA reports that cartel presence in the United States cities are getting bigger from the years of two-thousand-eight to twenty-eleven climbing the scale to twelve hundred on the number of reports from American communities that suspected narcotics presence. Making the struggle to make communities more secure but organizations that are not affiliated to the government are helping to get rid all this problematic situations with cartels such as the Chicago Crime

President Calderon’s war against the cartels has led to the death of over 100,000 people. Drug cartels such as Los Zetas have increased their involvement in human smuggling using people as forced labor and demanding ransom money. Los Zetas’ 10,000 gunmen have engrossed the border as they drive 8,500 trucks into Texas on a daily basis. As of 2010, drug cartels have their hold on 1,286 U.S. cities. With a U.N. estimated narcotics market of $60 billion annually, the Mexican cartels profits on the U.S. are at $39 billion and

SinaloaMore…Signal drug cartel, is the biggest and most powerful drug trafficking organization in North, Central and South America. Which was established in the 80s and operates in several Mexican states and many other countries with criminal activities such as money laundering. It has grown far beyond our borders and is now believed to be very influential and a far-reaching drug organization in the United States. The cartel members rely on connections at the highest levels and are led by Mexico's mighty drug lord Joaquin GuzmanGuzman's alias “El Chapo” who recently escaped from a maximum-security prison in Mexico. SinaloaMore…Signal has long been connected with contraband drugs in Mexico, as well as the location for marijuana and poppy cultivation.

The Sinaloa Cartel is considered the largest and wealthiest organized crime syndicate in the Western Hemisphere. Run by drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the Sinaloa Cartel is the biggest player in the Mexican drug trafficking trade. “Mexican drug trafficking is estimated by analysts to be worth $13 billion US a year,” according to the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC, 2015, par. 2). Heavily involved in the production and distribution of marijuana, cocaine and opium, the Sinaloa Cartel is also operates prostitution rings and deals in human trafficking. According to CBC, “analysts estimate that since 2006, 70,000 people have been killed in drug-related violence.” The Sinaloa Cartel is the United States Government’s biggest obstacle in the international war on drugs and its diabolical leader is once again free.

The Cartels have major influence over many small towns and cities as they make sure their businesses compete with the rest of the illegal drug market. The word Cartel means a formal organization of producers that agree to coordinate prices and production. In order for their organizations to remain established, some cartels in Mexico even have the power to bribe the government so that they look the other way. This is a form of Clientelism, which is an informal aspect of policymaking where a powerful patron offers resources such as land, contacts, protection or jobs in return for the support and services of lower-status and less powerful clients. This obviously leads to corruption as well as the cartel being basically untouchable in some cases. The amount of violence that stirs from this phenomena is staggering and many people die from it every year in

There is not an exact version of where the term money laundering comes from, but there is a theory that affirms the term was first used and recognized internationally in the 1970’s, after the Watergate scandal, the scandal that led to the resignation of the president Nixon (Dr. Gholanhossein).

They are based in the city of Culiacán, Sinaloa, with smugglings controlled from the Mexican states of Baja California, Durango, and Sonora. This group is less likely to have arrests by Mexican authorities. Sinaloa made new unions and has continued to expand its trades, making seventeen active states throughout Mexico and some United States connection, stretching as far as Australia . Sinaloa's success is due to the fact that the U.S Drug Enforcement Administration uses the Sinaloas information against other cartels to get rid of the smaller groups. Decisions for the group are made by Joaquin Guzman “El Chapo”, the cartels multibillionaire criminal business visionary. After escaping from federal maximum security prison in Guadalajara , Jalisco with help of police officials he was arrested in the coastal resort city of Mazatlan last February of

The Sinaloa Cartel has access to a wide variety of weapons and vehicles. Some of their vehicles are equipped with armor as well as large caliber machine guns. They also have access to air assets such as small planes and helicop-ters. It is very likely that the Sinaloa Cartel will conduct counter-surveillance operations on U.S. forces, as well as being apprised of military operations through corrupt government and military officials. They have a wide variety of communication assets, and will use operational security. The cartels have hitmen called Sicarios, they guard the shipments and the money, protect the cartel's turf from rivals, and kill to order. “Some in Mexico talk of a “narco-insurgency," a well-armed challenge to the state. In Sinaloa,

In Mexico Government is responsible for eliminating corruption in different ways. Firstly, most police officers and government agents are afraid of the drug traffickers as a result, police officers and government agents do everything what the drug traffickers asked.