The cartel of Sinaloa continues its expansion without "El Chapo": DEA

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Washington.- The Mexican cartels continue to be "the main threat of criminal drug traffickers" United States. "No other group is currently positioned to confront them," he says again. United States Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA, for its acronym in English), in its report Assessment of drug trafficking threats, published yesterday.

The DEA points out in its report that while drug-related murders have "epidemic proportions" in Mexico, the volume of violence in the United States is reduced to an almost negligible level in order to "avoid detection and control" of drugs. US security forces. American Union. "They are rare and normally refer to incidents between drug traffickers [de carácter individual]"They explain.

The report of the DEA on cartels in Mexico is virtually identical to that of previous years because it indicates six criminal organizations which dominate the territory.

According to the DEA, Mexican cartels own the drug trafficking corridors on the southern border of the United States. Their "continuous growth" increasing their "criminal influence" with alliances with others cartels, gangs and gangs– he allowed his exports "in significant quantities" of all types of drugs to remain unchanged or even to increase.

All these cartels are mostly hidden in high density US-Mexican populations. While production tasks are managed from Mexico, distribution is coordinated by cartel members in the United States, in their centers of power (usually large cities that dominate as places).

The sale is made by small local gangs. This type of strategy, in addition to expanding the market and areas of influence, allows members of the cartel to isolate themselves from contact with the authorities and avoid arrests during seizures.

The DEA warns that the Sinaloa Cartel maintains its international expansion, compared to its rivals.
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In January 2017, despite internal disputes related to the detention and extradition of Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán Loera in the United States, the anti-drug office revealed that the criminal group continued to export quantities " roughly "to the neighboring country of the north. methamphetamine, marijuana, cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl, at crossings along the Mexican border with California, Arizona, New Mexico, and western Texas.

The drugs introduced, the DEA said in the document, are distributed in cities such as Chicago, Phoenix, Los Angeles and Denver, by US allies. Sinaloa Cartel distributed in the American Union.

The unit recalled that the criminal group currently led by the children of El Chapo, Iván Archivaldo and Jesús Alfredo Guzmán, in partnership with Ismael Mayo Zambada controls drug trafficking in several parts of Mexico, mainly along the Pacific coast.

Second, the DEA located the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), directed by Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, from Michoacán, The mencho, which it classifies as the most recent group, but which has the highest fire capacity and rapid growth in Mexico and the United States.

For the US authorities, the rapid expansion of the CJNG is due to violent clashes with its rivals, as well as with state and federal security forces.

He said the organization is present in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and Atlanta, as well as in 22 of Mexico's 32 states.

Behind CJNG, the DEA places the Cartel of Juarez, directed at the time by Amado Carrillo, who "recently expanded the trafficking and distribution of cocaine and methamphetamine" in Denver, Chicago and Oklahoma City, on the other side of the Mexican border until 39; in El Paso, Texas.

The United States stated that, with respect to the historic Gulf Cartel, it maintained its operations in Tamaulipas and Cartel of Juarez, has recently ventured into heroin and methamphetamine trafficking.

"He smuggles most of his drug shipments into South Texas through the border area between Rio Grande, Valle and South Padre Island.The Gulf cartel is present in Atlanta and has key distribution centers in Houston. and in Detroit, "said the anti-drug agency in his report.

DEA sees The zetas as a cartel "has declined considerably in recent years".

Its members, he said in the report, "carry cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and marijuana via key distribution centers in Laredo, Dallas and New Orleans, and have a known presence in Atlanta ".