The Sinaloa Cartel used to be known as La Alianza de Sangre ("Blood Alliance"). The capture of the Sinaloa Cartel's "El Chapo" Guzmán ignited a fight over the trial's location. On the contrary, based on seizure reports, the Sinaloa cartel appears to be the most active smuggler of cocaine. It was discovered as Mexican and San Diego officials were discussing the creation of a cross-border airport between Tijuana and Otay Mesa which would have undermined the drug tunneling operations in the area (see History of the Cross Border Xpress). Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera (Spanish: [xoaˈkin aɾtʃiˈβaldo ɣuzˈman loˈeɾa]; born 4 April 1957), commonly known as "El Chapo" ('Shorty', pronounced [el ˈtʃapo]) because of his 168 cm (5 ft 6 in) stature, is a Mexican drug lord and former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, an international crime syndicate.He is considered to have been the most powerful drug trafficker in the world. Both were associated with the Sinaloa Cartel. [40], Since February 2010, the major cartels have aligned in two factions: one integrated by the Juárez Cartel, Tijuana Cartel and Los Zetas; the other faction integrated by the Gulf Cartel and Sinaloa Cartel. The latter due to the coast of Mexico from which it originated. The 300 feet (91 m) tunnel was discovered in May, 1990. Guadalajara Jalisco on “ALERT” So far, no authority has confirmed the death of the Cartel leader. [103] Another report detailed numerous indications of corruption and influence that the cartel has within the Mexican government. He was arrested on 30 December 2013 at the Amsterdam airport Schiphol in the Netherlands, at the petition of the United States of America, and with the help of Interpol, on charges related to drug trafficking. [88] As prior drug tunnels, it crossed under the U.S.-Mexico border into a warehouse on Otay Mesa in San Diego with the capacity to move multi-ton loads of narcotics. He also claimed that the Sinaloa Cartel had bribed the military. [47] The Sinaloa Cartel was believed to be linked to the Juárez Cartel in a strategic alliance following the partnership of their rivals, the Gulf Cartel and Tijuana Cartel. He worked with two other big players in the Sinaloa Cartel (Joaquín Guzmán Loera and Juan José Esparragoza Moreno), but after the former was arrested and with the latter supposedly dead, Zambada is now thought to be the leader. [46], In the late 1980s, the United States Drug Enforcement Administration believed the Sinaloa Cartel was the largest drug trafficking organization operating in Mexico. [citation needed] Another source in the story was the U.S. trial of Manuel Fierro-Mendez, an ex-Juarez police captain who admitted to working for the Sinaloa Cartel. Ivan is El Chapo’s oldest son at 39 and a key figure in Los Chapitos. The Gangster Disciples are one of the local gangs most actively working with the cartel. The Sinaloa Cartel has a presence in at least 22 of the 31 Mexican states, with important centers in Mexico City, Tepic, Toluca, Zacatecas, Guadalajara, and most of the state of Sinaloa. Zambada was on the Sinaloa side of the split, which grew in terms of influence, power and money in the 1990s. [20] The Mexican and U.S. Government both consider the Sinaloa Cartel to be "the largest and most powerful drug cartel of all time",[21] making it perhaps even more influential and capable than the infamous Medellín Cartel of Colombia during its prime in the 1980s and early 1990s. El Chapo, El Azul and El Mayo have all maintained their ow… The evidence at trial established that Guzman Loera was a principal leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, a Mexico-based international drug trafficking organization responsible for importing and distributing more than a million kilograms of cocaine, marijuana, methamphetamine and heroin in the United States. [98] As with prior "super tunnels", it was equipped with an elevator and electric rail cars to efficiently ferry narcotics across the U.S.-Mexico border. [100][101] On 21 June 2017, Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán's "girlfriend" and former legislator of the state of Sinaloa, Lucero Guadalupe Sánchez López, was arrested at the Tijuana airport's Cross Border Xpress by CBP (U.S. Customs and Border Protection) officers as she crossed into the U.S. She was charged with drug conspiracy and money laundering, and had been with Joaquín Guzmán when he escaped capture in 2014. [89][90], Similar to the "Taj Mahal" of drug tunnels discovered on Otay Mesa in 1993,[83] the 2006 drug "super tunnel" was traced back to the Sinaloa Cartel. In social networks and the media, the death of the leader of the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG), Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, alias El Mencio, was reported, so that security forces from both Jalisco and the federal authorities would be on alert. [13][44][5][6], Before his arrest, Vicente Zambada Niebla ("El Vicentillo"), son of Ismael Zambada García ("El Mayo"), played a key role in the Sinaloa Cartel. Zambada will feature in an episode of the upcoming Netflix series, World… After the assassination of Cardinal Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo and six others at the Guadalajara airport on 24 May 1993,[81] the gunmen boarded a commercial jet. The Sinaloa Cartel is one of the leaders in drug trafficking into the United States and even the world. [91][92][93][94][95] In 2011, at the westerly end of the Tijuana airport a 1,800-foot (550-meter) drug "super tunnel" was discovered dug under the airport's 10/28 runway[96][97] from a warehouse located 980 feet (300 meters) from Mexico's 12th Military Air Base and 330 feet (100 meters) from a Mexican Federal Police station. As of 18 January 2011, Mexico had captured or killed 20 of the 37 in the most-wanted list. MAYO Zambada is the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, an infamous drug trafficking and crime group that began in the late 1980s. The report also alleged, with support from an anthropologist who studies drug trafficking, that data on the low arrest rate of Sinaloa Cartel members (compared to other groups) was evidence of favoritism on the part of the authorities. 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[42] Under Zambada's leadership, the Sinaloa Cartel had been willing to negotiate potential leadership for the Caro Quintero brothers. News Corp is a network of leading companies in the worlds of diversified media, news, education, and information services. 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Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel is the greatest criminal threat to the United States despite its notorious leader Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán serving a life … For further details of our complaints policy and to make a complaint please click this link: thesun.co.uk/editorial-complaints/, Comments are subject to our community guidelines, which can be viewed, Mayo Zambada features in an upcoming Netflix most wanted series, Netflix's new docuseries 'World's Most Wanted' profiles heinous criminals who have avoided capture across the globe, Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), New on Netflix: The best series and films. He claimed that the Sinaloa Cartel influenced the Mexican government and military in order to gain control of the region. Recent events. [56][57][58], In 2013, the Chicago Crime Commission named Joaquin "Chapo" Guzmán "Public Enemy No. At least 15 people were executed in Culiacán, Mexico, on Wednesday amid a civil war in the Sinaloa drug cartel between the sons of ex-leader El Chapo and the group's co-founder. On 11 July 2015, he escaped from the Federal Social Readaption Center No. [21] It has repeatedly been said to be one of the strongest criminal organizations and the most powerful in Mexico since at least the late 2000s and early 2010s by various sources including the Los Angeles Times. Despite its leader, El Chapo, being in prison in the United States, the Sinaloa cartel still wreaks havoc in Mexico. Ismael El Mayo Zambada is a 72-year-old Mexican drug lord. Also quoted was a Mexican reporter who claimed hearing numerous times from the public that the military had been involved in murders. For other inquiries, Contact Us. Before he assumed leadership of the entire cartel, he served as the logistical coordinator for its Zambada-García faction, which has overseen the trafficking of cocaine and heroin into Chicago and other US cities by aircraft, narcosubs, container ships, go-fast boats, fishing vessels, buses, rail cars, tractor trail… [79][80] Following the discovery by U.S. Customs and Mexican Federal Police, the Sinaloa Cartel began to focus their smuggling operations towards Tijuana and Otay Mesa, San Diego where it acquired a warehouse in 1992. The Sinaloa Cartel has been waging a war against the Tijuana Cartel (Arellano-Félix Organization) over the Tijuana smuggling route to the border city of San Diego, California. According to Bloomberg he rakes in $11 billion a year for the Cartel. [113][114][115] The cardinal arrived at the airport in a white Mercury Grand Marquis town car, known to be popular amongst drug barons. [24] According to the National Drug Intelligence Center, within the U.S. the Sinaloa Cartel is primarily involved in the distribution of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, cannabis and MDMA. [43] The cartel is primarily involved in the smuggling and distribution of Colombian cocaine, Mexican marijuana, methamphetamine and Mexican and Southeast Asian heroin into the United States. In 2002, Mexican President Vicente Fox, who had promised to resolve the issue, also failed. The Milenio (Michoacán), Jalisco (Guadalajara), Sonora (Sonora), and Colima cartels were now branches of the Sinaloa Cartel. [82] On 31 May 1993, Mexican federal agents searching for the gunmen found a partially completed 1,500 feet (460 m) tunnel adjacent to the Tijuana airport and crossing under the U.S.-Mexico border to a warehouse on Otay Mesa in San Diego. Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada García, the man many believe to have the most control over the Sinaloa cartel, has spent five decades in the drug trade.While El Chapo is widely described as the cartel’s leader, that notion obscures the fact that Sinaloa operates more like a federation with multiple leaders who form something analogous to a board of directors. [113][114][115] Evidence that runs counter to a mistake theory is that Posadas did not look anything like Guzmán, he was wearing a long black cassock and a large pectoral cross, and he was gunned down from only two feet away. [102], In May 2009, the U.S. National Public Radio (NPR) aired multiple reports alleging that the Mexican federal police and military were working in collusion with the Sinaloa Cartel. But during his trial in 2018, Guzmán’s attorneys claimed that he was the victim of a conspiracy by the cartel’s true leader — … [40] With the arrest of Joaquín Guzmán Loera, Ismael Zambada will most likely assume leadership of the Sinaloa Cartel. He worked with two other big players in the Sinaloa Cartel (Joaquín Guzmán Loera and Juan José Esparragoza Moreno), but after the former was arrested and with the latter supposedly dead, Zambada is now thought to be the leader. José Rodrigo Aréchiga Gamboa (alias "Chino Antrax") was a high-ranking member of the Sinaloa Cartel. [37], Recently, it is believed that the Tijuana Cartel, or at least a sizable majority of it, has been either absorbed or forced to ally with the Sinaloa Federation, in part due to a former high-ranking Tijuana member called Eduardo Teodoro Garcia Simental, alias "El Teo" or "Tres Letras" allying with the Federation.[116][117][118]. [22][47][48] Following the discovery of a tunnel system used to smuggle drugs across the Mexican/US border, the group has been associated with such means of trafficking. [105] Such allegations were confirmed by court documents obtained by El Universal during their investigation of collaboration with top officials from the Sinaloa cartel. The "super tunnels" were equipped with power, ventilation and rail tracks to allow the efficient movement of large loads of narcotics across the U.S.-Mexico border. Sinaloa cartel, international crime organization that is among the most-powerful drug-trafficking syndicates in the world. "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. He strangely interviewed with Proceso in 2010, in which he confessed he'd consider suicide to avoid jail time. [25] It is also the majority supplier of illicit fentanyl to North America. In the ensuing years, drug tunnels moving tons of narcotics were detected in and around the Tijuana airport. The drug war has spread to various regions of Mexico, such as Guerrero, Mexico City, Michoacán and Tamaulipas. Iván Archivaldo. As seen on image 1 Drug tunnel corridors the close proximity of the former Ejido Tampico to the Tijuana airport and U.S.-Mexico border made it an ideal staging area for smuggling operations into the United States. Throughout the 1980s, the cartel controlled much of the drug trafficking in Mexico and the corridors along the Mexico–United States border. The drug operation allegedly brought 1.5 to 2 tons of cocaine every month to Chicago from Mexico and shipped millions of dollars south of the border. [74] He was a leader and founding member of Los Ántrax, an armed squadron formed to protect Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada García, founding member of the Sinaloa Cartel. [61], The Sinaloa Cartel has operations in the Philippines as a trans-shipment point for drugs smuggled into the United States. The Caborca Cartel, also known as Caro Quintero Organization, was a Mexico based criminal cartel. [62] President Rodrigo Duterte further confirmed the presence of the Sinaloa Cartel in the Philippines, saying that the cartel uses the country as a trans-shipment point for drugs smuggled into the United States. [3][35] Guzmán was captured in Guatemala on 9 June 1993, and extradited to Mexico, where he was jailed in a maximum security prison, but on 19 January 2001, Guzmán escaped and resumed his command of the Sinaloa Cartel. Second generation Sinaloan traffickers such as Rafael Caro Quintero, Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo, Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo and Avilés Pérez' nephew Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán[33] would claim they learned all they knew about 'narcotraficantes' while serving in the Avilés organization. The Sinaloa cartel's loss of partners in Mexico does not appear to have affected its ability to smuggle drugs from South America to the USA. Sinaloa Cartel leader Felipe Cabrera Sarabia was extradited to the U.S. Watch Seeker's content days before anyone else, click here for a free 30 day subscription to Vessel: http://skr.cm/seekeratvesselSubscribe! I'd like to think so, that I'd kill myself," he said. Since 2013, the cartel has been operating in the Philippines after a raid on a ranch in Lipa, Batangas, according to a statement by Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) director general Arthur Cacdac, and have entered the country without notice. Zambada will feature in an episode of the upcoming Netflix series, World's Most Wanted (dropping August 5). Sinaloa cartel leader’s son quietly extradited to San Diego, with an alleged Tijuana cartel advisor Gustavo Rivera, left, and Ismael Zambada Imperial (Courtesy of DEA) [30], Pedro Avilés Pérez was a pioneer drug lord in the Mexican state of Sinaloa in the late 1960s. The Sun website is regulated by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. [48] The Nuevo Laredo region is an important drug trafficking corridor into Laredo, Texas, where as much as 40% of all Mexican exports pass through into the U.S. "El Chango", brought the total to twenty-one captured or killed. When the jet landed at the Tijuana airport, both police and military units failed to cordon off the aircraft and the gunmen escaped. [31] He also pioneered the use of aircraft to smuggle drugs to the United States.[32]. In the shootout that followed, six civilians were killed by the hired gunmen from Logan Heights. [83][84] It was five times longer than the Agua Prieta-Douglas tunnel and became the first of a series of drug "super tunnels" in Otay Mesa originating in and around the Tijuana airport through the former Ejido Tampico. It is based in Culiacan, Sinaloa state, Mexico. In December 2013, three suspected members of the cartel were arrested in Lipa in Batangas province in the Philippines with 84 kilograms of methamphetamine.[62][75]. [112] In the same documentary it is shown that the US Justice Department invoked national security reasons to prevent Humberto Loya Castro, the lawyer of the Sinaloa Syndicate, from being summoned as a witness to the trial against Vicente Zambada Niebla. The Tucson and Phoenix, Arizona metropolitan areas are major trans-shipment and distribution points for the cartel in the US. The Sinaloa cartel leader – the most wanted by US and Mexican anti-drug agencies – was arrested by Mexican marines at a resort in Mazatlan, northern Mexico. [64], On 4 July 2019, Juan Ulises Galván Carmona, alias "El Buda", was killed by two hit men in a convenience store in Chetumal, the capital of Quintana Roo state along Mexico's Caribbean coast. [42], The Sinaloa Cartel has a presence in at least 22 of the 31 Mexican states, with important centers in Mexico City, Tepic, Toluca, Zacatecas, Guadalajara, and most of the state of Sinaloa. The cartel is primarily involved in the smuggling and distribution of Colombian cocaine, Mexican marijuana, methamphetamine and Mexican and Southeast Asian heroin into the United States. Félix Gallardo, following his imprisonment, bestowed the Guadalajara Cartel to his nephews in the Tijuana Cartel. In an attempt to resolve the dispute and remove the ejidatarios from the privatized Tijuana airport, the Mexican government established a value on the expropriated 320 hectares (790 acres) at $1.2 million pesos ($125,560 U.S. dollars in 1999) while the ejidatarios of the former Ejido Tampico taking into account the increase in property values from 1970 to 1999 and the privatization of the Tijuana airport established a commercial value on their lost land at $2.8 billion pesos ($294 million U.S. dollars). Loya-Castro had become an official informant of the DEA in 2005 but was already providing vital information on rival cartels since the 1990s; such intel was instrumental to the takedown of the Tijuana Cartel, the Sinaloa cartel's main rival, as well as the death of Arturo Beltrán Leyva, who led a splinter group from the Sinaloa cartel. [34] When Héctor Luis Palma Salazar (a.k.a. [39], Guzmán was captured on 22 February 2014 overnight by American and Mexican authorities. According to the U.S. Attorney General, the Sinaloa Cartel was responsible for importing into the United States and distributing nearly 200 short tons (180 t) of cocaine and large amounts of heroin between 1990 and 2008. [106][107], Statements from a Mexican diplomat, which were revealed from leaked emails from the Stratfor leak in 2012, appeared to imply the belief amongst Mexican officials that US officials were assisting the Sinaloa cartel's drug smuggling efforts into the US and were protecting the cartel while attacking its rivals in an attempt to lower violence between Mexican drug cartels; this was backed up by information provided by a Mexican foreign agent, codenamed MX1. [44][22], It is believed that a group known as the Herrera Organization would transport multi-ton quantities of cocaine from South America to Guatemala on behalf of the Sinaloa Cartel. He is the only individual to receive the title since Al Capone. [71], The Mexican Secretary of National Defense (Sedena) reported the arrest of Jesús Alfredo Salazar Ramírez, alias "El Muñeco" or "El Pelos", who was identified as the current lieutenant of the South Pacific Cartel in the state of Sonora. [67], On 25 February 2009, the U.S. government announced the arrest of 750 members of the Sinaloa Cartel across the U.S. in Operation Xcellerator. Jesús Alfredo Salazar Ramírez was arrested on 1 November 2012 in the municipality of Huixquilucan, by military personnel working with the Mexican Attorney General's office (PGR).[73]. In February 2014, "El Chapo" Guzmán was arrested. The Sinaloa drug cartel is the largest cartel in the world, and it’s estimated to rake in $3 billion a year. [13][3] The "Federation" was partially splintered when the Beltrán-Leyva brothers broke apart from the Sinaloa Cartel. Another close associate, Javier Torres Félix, was arrested and extradited to the U.S. in December 2006. View our online Press Pack. When the Mexican government failed to indemnify the ejidatarios for their lost farmland, they reoccupied a 79 hectares (200 acres) portion of the Tijuana airport and threatened armed conflict. [59] The focal point for Sinaloa in Chicago is the city's "Little Village" neighborhood. [20] Despite trafficking various types of illicit substances, the cartel's operations seem to mostly favor the trade of cocaine and heroin. Gunmen killed the nephew of a Sinaloa cartel leader in the latest attack against relatives of people linked to the drug organization. [47] By the mid-1990s, according to one court opinion, it was believed to be the size of the Medellín Cartel during its prime. Such information ensured Loya-Castro was immune from prosecution while also keeping the DEA concentrated on Sinaloa's rivals and away from their leadership. The Crossword Solver found 20 answers to the former leader of the sinaloa drug cartel crossword clue. From this strategic point, the cartel distributes their product at the wholesale level to dozens of local street gangs, as much as 2 metric tons a month, in a city with over 120,000 documented gang members. On 4 November 2011, Francisco Hernández García was captured bringing the total to 22 captured or killed. Operatives like local gangs pick up the chemicals from dropoff points and ship them to hidden labs. He was arrested by the Mexican Army on 18 March 2009 and extradited on 18 February 2010 to Chicago to face federal charges. Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo (born January 8, 1946), commonly referred to by his alias El Jefe de Jefes ("The Boss of Bosses"), is a convicted Mexican drug lord.He was one of the founders of the Guadalajara Cartel in the 1970s. Due to his old age and the fact he has diabetes, his days leading the Cartel are numbered. Learn more about the Sinaloa cartel. However, Mexican officials believe Posadas just happened to be caught in cross fire. The Sinaloa Cartel, a global leader in cocaine sales with operations in at least 50 countries, was looking for new routes into Italy as a way to expand its European presence. [13][22][119] Following the 2003 arrest of Gulf Cartel leader Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, it is believed the Sinaloa Cartel moved 200 men into the region to battle the Gulf Cartel for control. To accomplish this task he used every means available: Boeing 747 cargo aircraft, narco submarines, container ships, go-fast boats, fishing vessels, buses, rail cars, tractor trailers and automobiles. Woman dead & 5 people including child injured as house collapses in 'explosion', Man, 35, 'sent obscene tweet' about Captain Tom the day after hero died, Mums who've let themselves go must up their game - their hubbies talk to ME now, Local lockdowns may be used to stop mutant strains even after PM opens up UK, Laura Tobin sparks Alex Beresford romance rumours after sex life comment, ©News Group Newspapers Limited in England No. As stated by Sedena, "El Muñeco" worked as an administrator under Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán[72] and is believed to be responsible for the death of the activist Nepomuceno Moreno. The shipments were mostly bought from the Sinaloa Cartel and at times from the Beltrán-Leyva Cartel, and it is assumed that both cartels threatened the Flores crew with violence if they bought from other rival drug organizations. [65][66] El Buda served as the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel's drug trafficking activities and shipments from Central and South America. 1: 'El Chapo, "Tracking the Sinaloa Federation's International Presence", "Probing Ties Between Mexican Cartel And Chicago's Violence", "Mexico drug cartel actively operating in Philippines, says Duterte", "Ejecutan en Chetumal a Juan Ulises Galván Carmona, operador de El Chapo Guzmán", "Is the Jalisco Cartel Winning the Battle for Mexico's Caribbean? NPR's reporters interviewed dozens of officials and ordinary people for the journalistic investigation. The church hierarchy originally believed Posadas was targeted as revenge for his strong stance against the drug trade. [20] He filed a guilty plea agreement and agreed to cooperate with the government on 8 November 2018. [52] Murders by the cartel often involve beheadings or bodies dissolved in vats of alkali and are sometimes filmed and posted on the Internet as a warning to rival gangs.[53]. [23], The Sinaloa Cartel operates in the "Golden Triangle", the states of Sinaloa, Durango, and Chihuahua. [65][66], On 11 May 2008, Alfonso Gutiérrez Loera, cousin of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán Loera, and 5 other drug traffickers were arrested after a shootout with Federal Police officers in Culiacan, Sinaloa. The latter was arrested by the Mexican Army in March 2009 and handed over to the … Frozen, "Mexican drug lord killed in raid, officials say", "El Chapo, Escaped Mexican Drug Lord, Is Recaptured in Gun Battle", https://www.infobae.com/america/mexico/2020/06/24/va-a-caer-antes-que-muera-de-viejo-la-advertencia-de-mike-vigil-a-caro-quintero-el-narco-de-narcos/, "International Narcotics Control Strategy Report – 2008", "United States of America v. 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A woman believed to have led the Sinaloa cartel’s armed wing under former leader Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman reportedly has been found dead in Mexico. [27], As of 2020, the Sinaloa Cartel remains Mexico's most dominant drug cartel. [51], In January 2008 the cartel allegedly split into a number of warring factions, which is a major cause of the epidemic of drug violence Mexico has seen in the last year. According to the Sedena he is the assumed assassin of activist Nepomuceno Moreno Núñez, which occurred 28 November 2011.
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