A news media "shorthand" word used to describe the Mexican drug gangs smuggling illegal narcotics (and other things) into the US. Very much like the word "Mafia" is used to loosely describe the Italian controlled crime families.
A gang. but not your typical small town gang, A hardcore big mafia type of gang.
Yes, the Mexican Sinaloa drug cartel has arrived in the Philippines.
Yes, Mexican drug cartels are working in the Philippines.
No
There are many kinds of drugs sold by the Mexican drug cartels, for example: marijuana, heroin, and cocaine.
Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano was a Mexican drug lord. He was the leader of Los Zetas drug cartel. He was killed on 7 October 2012 by the Mexican Navy.
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The Mexican drug trafficking started in the 1980s, in the city of Guadalajara on western Mexico. The first known cartel was therefore, the Guadalajara Cartel, founded by Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo. After several years of operations, Gallardo convened with other regional drug lords to split Mexico into territories or plazas, thus the Juarez Cartel, the Gulf Cartel, the Sinaloa Cartel (led by El Chapo) and the Tijuana Cartel were born.
i believe its the Sinaloa cartel
No. The Crips are mostly an African-American gang. They however, have been linked to Mexican drug cartels, such as the Juarez Cartel.
A drug cartel is best describe as what type of network.
No
The Sinaloa Mexican cartel publicly due to all of the murders and rivalries going on in Mexico. Norte del Valle Cartel controls almost 80% of the market but remain low profile since they have almost no competition at their level of distribution in Colombia. If the Medellin Cartel and Cali Cartel existed now they would be the most powerful crime organizations in the world.