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1 day ago · A wave of killings and kidnappings in a northern Mexican city has left residents scared to leave their houses during an internal cartel war set off by the US arrests of two high-level drug ...
2 days ago · Civil war in the home of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel: Fear grips Culiacan. Recent abduction and arrest of a top drug lord has set off a vicious war inside Mexico’s most violent cartel.
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Sep 21, 2024 · The trigger for the conflict between the two most powerful factions of the Sinaloa Cartel, a drug gang, dates back to July, when legendary trafficker and leader of one of those groupings, Ismael ...
Sep 10, 2024 · The War on Drugs was a relatively small component of federal law-enforcement efforts until the presidency of Ronald Reagan, which began in 1981.Reagan greatly expanded the reach of the drug war and his focus on criminal punishment over treatment led to a massive increase in incarcerations for nonviolent drug offenses, from 50,000 in 1980 to 400,000 in 1997.
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3 days ago · A drug cartel is a criminal organization composed of independent drug lords who collude with each other in order to improve their profits and dominate the illegal drug trade. 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 ...
5 days ago · A new criminal business model after the war on drugs. The cartel expansion into oil theft illustrates how organised crime can pivot when faced with state repression. Before the crackdown, oil theft was largely the work of small, local groups known as huachicoleros. These groups lacked the resources to engage in oil theft at scale.
Sep 20, 2024 · Perhaps the most famous of all the many cartels here is the Sinaloa cartel, led by Joaquin El Chapo Guzman, now incarcerated in a United States prison where he will likely be for the rest of his life.
