Mostly, marijuana. However, an ever-increasing demand of other drugs such as cocaine, heroine and metamphetamines in the United States have prompted the cartel to "diversify".
Yes, the Mexican Sinaloa drug cartel has arrived in the Philippines.
The Sinaloa Cartel
The Cartel de Sinaloa are known as a drug trafficking group from Mexico. They are also known to participate in money laundering and other forms of organized crime.
Joaquin Loera Guzman is the drug trafficking leader from the Sinaloa Cartel. Ernesto Perez is also known as El Chapo de Sinaloa, but he is a popular singer of norteno music from the Sinaloa.
The Cali Cartel is said to be the most dominant Cartel EDIT-- The Cali Cartel is almost non-existent now and virtually died off in the late 1980s. At the moment I would say Norte del Valle Cartel.
Born in Sinaloa, Mexico, Victor Portillo was a successful drug lord. His name was not know internationaly, but he almost became the head of the Sinaloa cartel after El Chapo Guzman and El Guero Palma went to prison. He was asassinated in 1998 in Culiacan, Sinaloa. Most people believe the hit came from someone within the Sinalo cartel.
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.
There are many kinds of drugs sold by the Mexican drug cartels, for example: marijuana, heroin, and cocaine.
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.
Joaquin Guzman, known as "El Chapo," is a criminal and the leader of the illegal drug smuggling Sinaloa cartel, responsible for an estimated 25% of the illegal drugs trafficked from Mexico into the U.S. Guzman is believed by drug experts to be spending more money to defend the cartel than in previous years due to stepped up enforcement efforts by the Mexican government, and has expanded cartel operations to Central America, particularly Guatemala. But authorities are closing in: December 2011 brought the arrest of a top Sinaloa lieutenant, quickly followed in February by the capture of the leader of the cartel's armed wing. Circumstances must be less than cozy in the mountains where El Chapo hides out; in August, the drug lord reportedly sent his 22-year-old wife to Los Angeles County to give birth to the couple's twin daughters.
Joaquin Guzman, known as "El Chapo," is a criminal and the leader of the illegal drug smuggling Sinaloa cartel, responsible for an estimated 25% of the illegal drugs trafficked from Mexico into the U.S. Guzman is believed by drug experts to be spending more money to defend the cartel than in previous years due to stepped up enforcement efforts by the Mexican government, and has expanded cartel operations to Central America, particularly Guatemala. But authorities are closing in: December 2011 brought the arrest of a top Sinaloa lieutenant, quickly followed in February by the capture of the leader of the cartel's armed wing. Circumstances must be less than cozy in the mountains where El Chapo hides out; in August, the drug lord reportedly sent his 22-year-old wife to Los Angeles County to give birth to the couple's twin daughters.
Lalo is short for Eduardo in spanish. The name is commonplace unless you're speaking of Lalo Quintero - Mendeivel, aka 'el zorro de sinaloa'. This is a drug trafficker from Mexican state of sinaloa (drug capital of Mexico) who worked for the Sinaloa Cartel in the nineties. There are 'corridos' Mexican songs about him and how he came from the u.s. to take over once his uncles were killed or locked up . Hes just another drug trafficker that's probably dead by now. Lalo is indeed a nickname. In this case, Lalo Quintero (actual name is Mendevil) was also known as El Zorro de Sinaloa, El Indio de Los Mochis (a town in Sinaloa) due to his 'Indian' roots, even though he was born in Los Angeles. He worked for the Sonora Cartel which was swallowed up by the bigger Sinaloa Cartel in the late 90s. He actually was apprehended by the feds in 2000 and hasn't been heard of since around that time. The drug cartels don't have the same structure in today world, it's more out of control.