Sinaloamore: Signal Drug Cartel

Mexican drug cartels have been expanding its portfolios to include doing business in sex trafficking. The Zetas are the most feared drug cartel in Mexico’s drug, sex trafficking trade, and etc.; the Zetas are a criminal army made up of defectors from the Mexican military. Anybody who crosses them will more than likely get their heads chopped off or won’t live to see another day.

Mexican Drug Cartels have been a problem for many years. The cartels are an organized crime organization and they don’t just deal drugs; they commit murders too. The Cartels origins are traced back to the Columbian Cali and Medellin mega-cartels who were responsible for the majority of drug trafficking into the United States. Crime has existed for many years but it surfaced more when Pablo Escobar was popular. Pablo Escobar was one the main transporters for cocaine throughout Mexico and the United States coming straight out of Columbia. Law enforcement tried to stop the drug trade but Escobar formed a relationship with Mexico-based traffickers who smuggled drugs into the United States. Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo also known as “The Godfather” of the cartels. Seeing how he established the Guadalajara Cartel, which is recognized as the first Mexican Cartel, and were the first to link up with Escobar and started the transportation of cocaine

"A businessman, and a business woman sit across from each other in negotiations. The man proposes four thousand pesos, and the woman says she can't afford that much. She counter-offers with twenty-five hundred pesos. The man agrees and leaves. This was a weekly payment for the protection of the woman's local business against the Juarez Cartel." (Lacey, M. 2010).

The situation in Mexico regarding the Drug Cartels has been an ongoing battle that has taken the life of between 30,000 to 40,000 civilians, cartels henchmen and federal employees. The violence has evolved into something new in recent years. The brutality contributed by the drug cartels could potentially be labeled as terrorist acts. The strong domestic conflict surrounding the drug cartel in Mexico has boiled over the border and into the United States. Illegal drugs enter the United States through various openings along the U.S- Mexican Border. There are nine important crossings, such as Tijuana-San Diego, Mexicali, and Ciudad Juarez-El Paso. From Texas to Southern California, these drugs are handed out throughout the United States via

The Sinaloa Cartel is the premier drug trafficking organization in Mexico. The cartel is based out of Sinaloa, Mexico. Unlike many of the Mexican cartels, the Sinaloa Cartel exports large quantities of multiple drugs into the United States. Pablo Escobar is considered one of the most notorious drug lords in history. Escobar’s cartel was only in charge of exporting cocaine into the United States. The Sinaloa Cartel exports cocaine, methamphetamines, and marijuana into the United States. The leader of the Sinaloa Cartel is Joaquin “el chapo” Guzman. While El Chapo is a very well-known international drug kingpin, he has proven that he is almost as good at escaping from prison. El Chapo has multiple prison escapes under his belt. He most recently escaped from the Federal Social Readaptation Center No. 1, which is a maximum security prison in Mexico.

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.

According the US Drug Enforcement Administration, Sinaloa Cartel is the largest and most powerful drug trafficking syndicates in the world, is an alliance of some of Mexico’s top capos based in Culiacan, Sinaloa state, Mexico. The state has long been recognized as major which involved in illegal drug industry as home to marijuana and poppy crops. (www.insightcrime.org) By the early 21st century the cartel had operations in more than 50 countries but was particularly dominant in the United States. (Tikkanen, 2016) The Sinaloa Cartel was responsible for the majority of illegal drugs notably marijuana, cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamines were smuggled from Mexico then the cartel remains the main controlling the most U.S states. In the mid 1990s,

He founded his own cartel, known as Sinaloa, in 1989, by the early 1990s, Guzman was on the radar of the DEA and FBI. Guzman was considered one of Mexico’s most powerful and dangerous drug traffickers. Power of the Colombian drug cartels like Medellin and Cali began to wane, Sinaloa was among the Mexican organization. Guzman took control of the cocaine trade extending from south America to the united states. Sinaloa’s creative smuggling methods most notably a series of air-conditioner tunnels that ran under the Mexican- U.S.

All over the southwest U.S there have been drug cartels which smuggle drugs and weapons from country to country illegally. More recently

Recognized as one of the most fearless and violent cartels in all of Mexico, Los Zetas was brought forth by a need for personal security in the Gulf Cartel. This former hit man/security style operation, active since 1997, has since grown into its own ruthless and violent organization becoming the second most powerful cartel and easily the most feared in all of Mexico. Heavily trained and armed, members of Los Zetas are set apart from other cartels because of the level of brutality they are willing to administer to those who cross them, though they had initially hoped that by being more intimidating they would have to fight less. It is their command of the drug market, their lack of fear in using violent tactics, and the

What are federal law enforcement agencies doing to combat the powerful Mexican drug cartels that are making billions of dollars smuggling drugs into the U.S.? This paper focuses on the response that U.S. officials and law enforcement agencies have made to attempt to slow the flow of dangerous drugs across the border, and to cut into the leadership of the cartels.

The United States has developed extensive networks, policies, and operations to decrease the drug trafficking throughout the world, with its’ starts especially Latin America. As US law enforcement agencies have made progress in arresting and disassembling drug cartel organizations and by having tighter security at transit points, these same organizations have counteracted their business plans to avoid being exposed. Since the mid-2000s Latin American drug cartels have made increasing relations with partners in Africa. This has now become an increasing concern for US authorities, for these cartels have now became intertwined with terrorist organization, forming narco-terrorist organizations. These narco-terrorism organizations can be defined

The Oriental republic of Uruguay greatly believes there is an issue regarding the danger of drug cartels. Being a South American Country, Uruguay does know what happens when drug cartels becomes out of control. For example, back in the 80’s, Colombia was basically Pablo Escobar and the Medellin Cartel’s country for a long time until his death in 1991. In more modern times, Mexico is in shambles due to the ongoing drug war between rival cartels. Drug Cartel’s and their campaign for blood and money will never stop until they are effectively dealt with.

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,

I believe that the country with most potential to tap into unused oil resources to build economic success is Mexico. It is estimated that Mexico has 545 trillion cubic feet of technically recoverable shale gas and 13 billion barrels of shale oil. Some experts argue that Mexico’s oil supply will run out by 2030 if they do not turn to shale oil production. What interests me the most about this topic is how the drug trade problem in Mexico hinders the production of oil.