Drug cartels form with the purpose of controlling the supply of the illegal drug trade and maintaining prices at a high level. The formations of drug cartels are common in Latin American countries. Rivalries between multiple drug cartels cause them to wage turf wars against each other.
DEA continues our work eliminating the Drug Trafficking Organizations responsible for the deadliest drug crisis in United States’ history. Driving this synthetic drug crisis are two Mexican-based cartels, the Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco New Generation Cartel.
Drug cartel, an illicit consortium of independent organizations formed to limit competition and control the production and distribution of illegal drugs. Drug cartels are extremely well-organized, well-financed, efficient, and ruthless.
The U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday it had charged the governor of Mexico's Sinaloa state, Ruben Rocha, and other officials for their alleged involvement with the Sinaloa Cartel, in a ...
The death of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, longtime leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), has pushed Mexico's most powerful criminal organization into a transitional period.
Arrest of potential next leader found hiding in drainage pipe highlights renewed tactics – and fears of cartel infighting
Mexico’s cartel crackdown hits top ranks – but will it fuel ...
The United States has charged 10 current and former Mexican officials, including the governor of Sinaloa, with helping the Sinaloa Cartel traffic drugs into the U.S. in an indictment that federal ...
The Mexican military has captured a top cartel leader in northwestern Mexico, dealing another blow to the country's most powerful criminal enterprise, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel.