The Sinaloa Cartel Is The Premier Drug Trafficking Organization

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.

Mexican drug cartel leader, El Chapo, recently escaped from a maximum-security prison by stepping into a shower and then kneeling down into a mile long tunnel. Authorities say the tunnel had light and ventilation and it extended from the prison to a half-built house. El Chapo is the leader of the drug cartel named Sinaloa Cartel. It is said that the cartel trafficks drugs various ways, including by land, air, and sea. They transport cocaine, methamphetamine, marijuana, etc. “Now a massive manhunt is underway to find Guzman,” Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto said. President Enrique Peña promises that the government will recapture El Chapo and further investigate how he escaped. El Chapo is known as the most notorious and richest drug

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,

The extent of drug cartel’s economic dependency on U.S. and other foreign buyers shields individual empires from oppression and the threat of rival groups. As the percent of cocaine being transported into the US raises from 77 percent to more than 90 percent, drug cartels are becoming stronger and more widespread (Lee n. pag.). With the rapidly escalating number of U.S. cocaine sales, Mexican mafias profit immensely. These cash profits fund all cartel activities including the

The alliance members operate in secret to protect themselves, relying on connections at the highest levels of leadership and corrupting parts of the federal police and military to maintain the upper advantage against rivals. The place of Sinaloa has been a center for illegal actions and contraband in Mexico for a long time, as well as a place for marijuana and poppy agriculture. Mostly all of the trafficking organizations in Mexico have their start in the area of Sinaloa. They were, a small group of farming families that lived in rural parts of the state. In the 1960s and 1970s, they moved from the contraband trade into drugs, particularly marijuana. One of the first to traffic large amounts of marijuana was Pedro Aviles, later he brought his friend's son, Joaquin El Chapo Loera, alias "El Chapo," into the trade (Sinaloa Cartel). The Sinaloa Cartel is a criminal organization that controls much of this related criminal activity. They are very good at what they do, creating techniques over years of practice and smuggling so many illegal drugs all across the western hemisphere. It makes you think how people can live when they are doing such risky actions. You can also are there any good things about these criminal organizations that benefit Mexican society. The fact is that there are

This research paper examines the impact of Mexican drug cartels in the United States. Most Americans are not aware of how far reaching these cartels are in the United States. Their power has an influence in our government and communities. This project examines who the Mexican Drug cartels are, what their purpose is, where they have influences, and when did they start to become a problem for the United States. This paper also touches base on the impact of the drugs that are illegally brought into the United States by these cartels and their methods for justice. These cartels generate billions of

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 story of famous narco leaders and members, and help to trace the history of cartels in

The Mexican Drug Cartels are becoming a very strong force on the North American continent. “More than 90 percent of cocaine now travels through Mexico into the United States (Lee).” It is also reported that the cartel makes nearly 30 billion dollars in a year, with about five hundred

The overall corruption in Mexico has led people to question if the highest levels of this country’s power are also linked to any drug activity. Rumblings started even more when billionaire drug lord, “El Chapo” Guzman Loera was able to escape from one of Mexico’s maximum security prisons. (BreitBart 2015)

The drug cartels in Mexico have branded themselves as businesses instead of just crime organizations. They participate in transcontinental and global drug trades in a professional manner. They also advertise to current army members that the conditions under the cartels outmatches those provided by the government. The hire these soldiers as well as militias in order to secure the lands they have influence over. Often misconceived, the drug related violence that is associated with the cartels is in defense of the trade routes through mexico with which their drugs from the Central America to the Unites States. The different cartels fight over territories used for their transportation, and that is the cause of the huge number of deaths associated

Mexico’s Transnational Criminal Organizations (MTCO) narcotic trade continues to be highly sophisticated, well organized, extremely violent, and remains a significant threat to United States national security. Chuck Rosenberg, the acting administrator for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) describes the Mexican Cartels as the most significant criminal threat to the United States, and the principal suppliers of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, MDMA and marijuana, and to a lesser extent fentanyl (Lohmuller 2015). While Cartel activity in the United States is not new, the sophistication and unrivaled status of the Mexican Cartels in the United States drug market has long surpassed the Columbian Cartels, who dominated the U.S. drug arena

The cartels use torture to intimidate adversaries. As the government of Mexico increases the pressure, organized crime continues to magnify its operations in somewhat business to brand currency, for this reason made kidnapping, extortion, human trafficking, and kidnapping. Surprisingly, kingpins like “Chapo” Guzman have certain sectors of the population who support them and follow them, as Badiraguato, Sinaloa. In fact, organized crime had infiltrate people in politics like “Lucero Guadalupe Sanchez Lopez. The Congress approved removes the jurisdiction of local deputy in Sinaloa and open the doors to the attorney to act against it because of its links with Joaquin Guzman Loera.” In other words, Corruption is one of the main problems affecting the population in Mexico; therefore, the government established measures against this

Escobar became business partners with Jorge Ochoa, starting out with the marijuana trade and transitioned into the cocaine trade (Flank, 2015). The two controlled a majority of the cocaine manufacturing throughout the cartel and the transportation of cocaine to the United States (Flank, 2015). The revenue from drug sales was so high that Escobar and Ochoa were taking home $1 billion each year (Flank, 2015). Escobar was known as the “godfather of cocaine” (Mallory, 2012). Since there was not as much security at United States borders and airports like there is today, smuggling drugs over the border was not very difficult for the Medellin (Flank, 2015). There was billions of dollars worth of cocaine being smuggled each year by the cartel (Flank, 2015). According to Flank (2015), “By 1989, with an estimated $24 billion, Escobar was named by Forbes magazine as the seventh richest person in the world” (n.p.). Even though Escobar was a man of crime, he also did nice gestures for the community, such as paying for sport stadiums and gave money to underprivileged schools (Flank, 2015). The majority of violence and murders of innocent people that occurred was because of Escobar (Flank, 2015). Eventually, Escobar was arrested and placed in his own prison, but then was ordered to be