The Sinaloa Cartel (Spanish : Cártel de Sinaloa ),[1] [2] also known as the Guzmán-Loera Organization , the Pacific Cartel ,[3] the Federation and the Blood Alliance ,[4] [5] [6] is an international drug trafficking , money laundering , and organized crime group[7] established during the late 1980s.[8] The cartel is in the city of Culiacán , Sinaloa ,[9] with operations in the Mexican states of Baja California , Durango , Sonora , and Chihuahua .[10] [11]
The United States calls the Sinaloa Cartel "the most powerful drug trafficking organization in the world"[12] and in 2011, the Los Angeles Times called it "Mexico's most powerful organized crime group."[13] The group makes and sells opium , marijuana , heroin and cocaine . They also do human trafficking .
↑ "Sinaloa Cartel Influence is Steadily Growing In Tijuana" . Borderland Beat . 23 February 2011.[permanent dead link ]
↑ Agren, David (28 November 2016). " 'The only two powerful cartels left': rivals clash in Mexico's murder capital" – via www.theguardian.com.
↑ The latter due to the coast of Mexico from which it originated.
↑ "El cártel de Sinaloa, una alianza de sangre" . El Universal (in Spanish). 30 July 2010. Archived from the original on 14 January 2015. Retrieved 20 June 2012 .
↑ Rama, Anahi (7 April 2008). "Mexico blames Gulf cartel for surge in drug murders" . Reuters . Retrieved 2008-04-11 .
↑ Carter, Sara A. (3 March 2009). "100,000-foot soldiers in Mexican cartels" . The Washington Times . Retrieved 2009-03-03 .
↑ "Why are the Sinaloa Cartel the World's Most Powerful Gangsters?" . International Business Times UK . 16 September 2014. Retrieved 12 July 2015 .
↑ "Sinaloa Cartel" . Retrieved 20 January 2017 .
↑ "Mexico's Sinaloa gang grows empire, defies crackdown" . Reuters . 19 January 2011. Archived from the original on 12 June 2013. Retrieved 18 September 2011 .
↑ Freeman, Laurie. State of Siege:Drug-Related Violence and Corruption in Mexico (PDF) . Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. pp. 7, 13, 15. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 November 2006.
↑ Bailey, John J.; Roy Godson (2000). Organized Crime and Democratic Governability: Mexico and the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands . Univ of Pittsburgh Press. p. 146. ISBN 0-8229-5758-2 .
↑ "U.S. Intelligence Says Sinaloa Cartel Has Won Battle for Ciudad Juarez Drug Routes" . CNS News . 9 April 2010. Archived from the original on 9 June 2012. Retrieved 24 June 2015 .
↑ Marosi, Richard (24 July 2011). "Unraveling Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel" . Los Angeles Times .