Drug Cartels
The five most dangerous drug cartels are located in Mexico. The most famous one is the I Guadalajara cartel, that influenced others such as the; the Sinoloa Cartel, Tijuana Cartel, Juarez Cartel, and Gulf Cartel are among the largest,famous and dangerous drug cartels in the world. In the picture on the right you can see the different drug cartels and drug routes to get the drugs into the US soil.
Guadalajara Cartel The Guadalajara Cartel was one of the first cartels in Mexico, it started in 1980, in the city of Guadalajara which is west form the Pacific Ocean.Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo, Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo, and Rafael Caro Quintero where the three famous drug traffickers who founded this cartel and control it . The Guadalajara Cartel is one of the five most famous drug cartels in history as it was among the first to work with cocaine and heroin exportation, that started growing in Colombia.Later in the years, this cartel started to weaken until it came to an end. Miguel’s colleagues got arrested, causing him to outsmart the CIA and starting to privatize the Mexican drug trade by having it run by lesser-known bosses. He was eventually arrested, and that is when the Guadalajara Cartel split into two other powerful cartels' the Sinoloa and the Tijuana cartel, this occurred in 1989. |
Sinoloa Cartel
After the Guadalajara cartel split in 1989, the Sinoloa Cartel was created and was led by the most-wanted drug trafficker in Mexico, Joaquin Guzaman Loera also known as “ El Chapo", he is in the picture on the right. He has been wanted since 2001, with an estimated reword of over $1 billion. Guzman has been arrested twice, he was arrested for 20 years and the second time he was arrested but escaped in the first couple of months without leaving any trace. The Sinoloa cartel is an on going cartel, in which they export high amounts of cocaine, heroin and cannabis to the United States. Most of these plants are grown in the Sinoloa plato. |
Tijuana Cartel
The other half of the Guadalajara cartel split, went to the Tijuana cartel. It was founded in 1989 and it is also an on going organization. Tijuana is known to be the less violent then the Sinoloa cartel. Since August of 2006, this cartel has weekend, due to the chief Javier Arellano Félix incarceration. He was arrested by the U.S. Coast Guard in Baja California.
Juarez Cartel Juarez Cartel was founded in the early 1970’s and it is still on going. It was founded by Amado Carrillo Fuentes and Rafael Aguilar Guajardo. In Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. The Juarez cartel controls the three main drug entry points in El Paso, Texas. This cartel work with two other gangs called La Linea and the Barrion Azteca, these to gangs help the cartel ship all the drugs into the Unites States. The Juarez cartel has been fighting with the Sinoloa Cartel for ages, due to territory occupation and on going spies. Although the Juarez Cartel is greatly feared, especially for the way they decapitate there rivals in public and post it on the internet. |
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Gulf Cartel The Gulf Cartel is also one of the oldest cartels ever existed it was founded in 1930’s, by Juan Nepomuceno Guerra and Juan García Ábrego. This drug cartel not only influenced the Mexican population, but also the international one. The Gulf Cartel is known for there kidnapping and assassinations worldwide. This cartel hired its own private army in the late 1990’s called “ Los Zetas”, although the partnership dissolved in 2010. The Cartel's leader where; Mario Alberto Cardenas Guillen, Osiel Cardenas Guillen, Jorge Eduardo Costilla Sanchez, and Antonio Cardenas Guillen-recently they where all incarcerated at the same time, although even with there arrest the cartel continued to smuggle drugs into the United States. |