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A life-or-death struggle.
Mexico is a top challenge for President Obama or Nuclear Iran and Pakistan?
George W. Grayson, an expert on Mexico-U.S. relations at the College of William and Mary in Virginia, said. Its a no mans land. Its totally out of control
The army has been devastated by desertions up to 15,000 men each year, some of whom defect becoming highly paid cartel assassins
Pakistan is the greater worry, But Mexico is scary .Pakistan is fighting for survival against USA led Islamic radicals, Mexico is waging a do-or-die battle with the world's most powerful drug cartels a CIA brain child.
No country is more important to the U.S. than Mexico. Drug war makes it one of the most dangerous countries in the world, and the extreme violence has intensified since the federal government launched a crackdown against the cartels. The fight against drug trafficking in Mexico seems hopeless. The body count grows steadily, each massacre seemingly more gruesome than the one before. The flow of drugs to America and Europe continues virtually unabated
Mexico, a country of 110 million people, becomes even a near Narco state; the effect on the U.S. makes that the Western Hemisphere is almost incalculable. Theres a lot more at stake for American interests in Mexico, the third-most populous country in this hemisphere (after the U.S. and Brazil). Mexico has the worlds 13th-largest economy with significant American investment. Its second-largest trading partner of USA. Mexico is third-largest oil supplier and the worlds eighth-largest exporter. Its got lots of natural gas, too.
Mexico has long been in the crosshairs of the drug war. In the 1980s, the drug of choice for local traffickers was marijuana but now situation is changed Mexico, a major drug producing and transit country, is the main foreign supplier of marijuana and a major supplier of methamphetamine to the United States. Although Mexico accounts for only a small share of worldwide heroin production, it supplies a large share of heroin consumed in the United States. An estimated 90% of cocaine entering the United States transits Mexico.
The Mexican border town Juarez,. With a population about the same as Philadelphia's Juarez had; Philadelphia had 332. of 1.7 million had an estimated 3,600 drug related-murders in 2008, the death toll rising faster than in Baghdad. In the first days of 2009, over 30 were killed in the city from drug violence The situation is increasingly grave with an average of 45 people being killed in narcotics-related violence in Mexico every day. The drug war in Mexico consumed nearly 4,000 lives in 2006 doubles the number in 2007. In 2008 10000 people dead gunned down, tortured, beheadedall to maintain the flow of illegal drugs into the United States
Editorial: Front Line: Mexico | Philadelphia Inquirer | 03/01/2009
Eduardo Medina Mora, the Mexican Attorney-General, that his country had spent $6.5 billion over the past two years fighting drug gangs who have a combined annual turnover of $ 40 billion a year and control swaths of national territory. . Over 1,400 people had been killed in drug violence so far this year, Mexico?s Drug War Is a Battle for Hearts and Minds | Newsweek International | Newsweek.com
Day after day, there are so many horrible things taking place there," said Howard Campbell, an anthropologist at the University of Texas at El Paso who studies Mexico's drug war. "The cartels are trying to control everything."
According to American ex- anti drug czar Barry Mc Caffrey, 130 cartels and criminal associations exist in Mexico, 100 of them concentrate their business at the borders to the United States.The seven major cartels are present in most of Mexicos 31 states and one federal district, that the major cartels Gulf, Sinaloa, and Juárez -- are present in much of Mexico most of the violence takes place along the Mexican side of the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexican border. Its no surprise: The Mexican illegal drug business may be worth as much as $25 billion to $40 billion annually, shipping hundreds of tons of methamphetamine, marijuana, cocaine and heroin into the U.S.
In December 2006, President Felipe Calderón launched operations against the cartels in 19 of Mexico's 32 states. He has pledged to use extradition as a tool against drug traffickers, and sent 64 criminals to the United States as of August 2007, including the alleged head of the Gulf Cartel.
Total Federal police (both preventing and investigating) 44,490
Total State police expect federal district (both preventing and investigating) 188,531
Total Municipal police (preventive all Municipalites) 139,571
Total 450271 vs. 300,000 Foot soldiers of different drugs cartel
www.wilsoncenter.org/news/docs/Olson Brief.pdf
According to the U.S. National Drug Intelligence Center (NDIC). Mexican cartels have been around for a while but have become increasingly prominent and powerful as drug routes north have shifted westward into Mexico, especially since the demise of the Colombian Cali and Medellin cartels in the 1990s. They come well-armed for their fights, bringing automatic weapons, Surface to Air Missiles ,Anti tank missiles powerful handguns, .50-caliber sniper rifles, grenades, rocket-propelled grenade launchers and even land mines to bear.
Like a modern military, they wear night-vision goggles, move by helicopters and transport drugs in submersibles built in Latin American jungles. Their means of communications are impressive, too, incorporating Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP), satellite technology, cell phone text and encrypted messaging.
According to the U.S. Justice Department. Some cases, observers say these gangs are private armies in the cartels employ, serving as hit squads. (Some, such as the Zetas, are former commandos.) Adding to the challenge, Mexican gangs (many associated with the cartels) smuggle drugs, firearms and illegal aliens across the U.S.-Mexico border, especially through South Texas and California
According to a 2004 U.S. Government RICO indictment, between 1990 and 2004, the Norte del Valle cartel exported more than 1.2 million pounds or 500 metric tons of cocaine worth in excess of $10 billion from Colombia to Mexico and ultimately to the United States for resale
Tijuana cartel the Tijuana cartel is present in at least 15 states with important areas of operation in Tijuana, Mexicali, Tecate, and Ensenada in Baja California and in parts of Sinaloa. A battle is now under way for control of the world's most lucrative border smuggling corridor, that funnels Colombian cocaine, Asian heroin and Mexican-manufactured methamphetamine to US markets. This part of the frontier was long the terrain of the Tijuana cartel run by the Arellano Felix family, The death of Ramon Arellano Felix in a 2002 shootout with police in Mazatlan, and subsequent arrests of brothers Benjamin and Francisco Javier, has left day-to-day operations in the hands of less-established subordinates, who are themselves under pressure. Federal police in March arrested Gustavo Rivera Martinez, the gang's suspected financial mastermind, and Saul Montes de Oca, a reputed cell leader the country's first narco-clan. drug "queen-pin" Enedina Arellano Felix. While she supervises the financial and money-laundering business, her nephew Fernando "The Engineer" Sanchez Arellano is in charge of smuggling and armed operations.
Sinaloa cartel, The biggest and most violent combatants are the Sinaloa cartel, known by U.S. and Mexican federal law enforcement officials as the "Federation" or "Golden Triangle The Sinaloa cartel has a presence in 17 states, with important centers in Mexico City; Tepic, Nayarit; Toluca and Cuautitlán, Mexico State; and most of the state of Sinaloa.Guzman, nickname "El Chapo," Spanish for "Shorty." Guzman, the commander of Mexico's most powerful narcotics network, the so-called Sinaloa cartel, named for the Pacific coast state that is the historic cradle of Mexican drug trafficking Sinaloa cartel, Mexico's most powerful drug gang.
In response to the Zetas, the Sinaloa cartel established its own heavily-armed enforcer gangs, the Negros and Pelones. Both are less sophisticated than the Zetas, and focused on attacks against adversaries. Edgar "La Barbie" Valdés Villarreal is alleged to be the head of the Negros. The Negros are believed to be "responsible for the recent rise in attacks against police officers in Nuevo Laredo, in an attempt to wrest control over the local police from the Zetas."
And in this internecine war, some of the Tijuana organisation's most-feared figures have switched sides, throwing in their lot with the Sinaloa faction. They include a ruthless killer, known as El Teo, and his feared lieutenants known as Crutches (because he has left many victims crippled) and The ***** (a man, despite the offensive nickname).
Gulf cartel. Los Zetas" or the Gulf Cartel The Gulf cartel is present in 13 states with important areas of operation in the cities of Nuevo Laredo, Miguel Alemán, Reynosa, and Matamoros in the northern state of Tamaulipas. The Gulf cartel also has important operations in Monterrey in Nuevo León; and Morelia in Michoacán. The Zetas has cemented the dominance of the Gulf cartel in Nuevo Laredo. the first time a drug lord has had his own paramilitary. Most reports indicate that the Zetas were created by a group of 30 lieutenants and sub lieutenants who deserted from the Mexican military's Special Air Mobile Force Group (Grupo Aeromovil de Fuerzas Especiales, GAFES) to the Gulf cartel in the late 1990s. Estimates on the number of Zetas range from 31 to up to 200.
In September 2005 testimony to the Mexican Congress, then-Defense Secretary Clemente Vega indicated that the Zetas had also hired at least 30 former Guatemalan special forces (Kaibiles) to train new recruits because "the number of former Mexican special forces men in their ranks had shrunk. The Zetas act as assassins for the Gulf cartel. The Zetas also trained the Michoacán-based "La Familia" enforcer gang which has carried out numerous executions in that state. The Familia maintains close ties to the Zetas, but are a smaller entity.
The Juárez cartel has been found in 21 Mexican states and its principle bases are: Culiacán, Sinaloa; Monterrey, Nuevo León; the cities of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, and Ojinaga, Chihuahua; Mexico City; Guadalajara, Jalisco; Cuernavaca, Morelos; and Cancún, Quintana Roo.The consortium of gangs that has traditionally dominated the drug trade, the so-called Juarez cartel Both groups have well-armed private armies that mercilessly eliminate enemies and potential impediments such as police detectives
Guadalajara Cartel was a Mexican drug cartel which was formed in the 1980's by Rafael Caro Quintero and Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo in order to ship heroin and marijuana to the United States. Among the first of the Mexican drug trafficking groups to work with the Colombian cocaine mafias, the Guadalajara cartel prospered from the cocaine trade, eventually broadening into a group known as the Federation.Most of the business was eventually taken over by the Tijuana Cartel.
Migrations have become increasingly common in metropolitan areas along the U.S.-Mexico border, as the ongoing violence of a brutal drug war has disrupted lives from Tijuana to Nuevo Laredo, across the Rio Grande from Texas
As of early October 2007, the war appears to have had an effect on the drugs trade in the United States. In 37 states the price of cocaine has gone up by as much as 24%, while the average purity has dropped by 11%.Cook, Colleen W., ed. (October 16, 2007), "CSR Report for Congress" (PDF), Mexico's Drug Cartels, USA: Congressional Research Service
The Mexican Army has severely curtailed the ability of the Mexican drug cartels to move cocaine inside U.S.A. and Canada, prompting an upsurge in gang violence in Vancouver, where the cocaine price has increased from $23,300 to almost $39,000 per kilo as both the U.S. and Canadian governments are experiencing prolonged shortages of coca
U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. announced the arrest of 755 people nationwide associated with a Mexican cartel. Also seized were nearly $60 million in cash, 13 tons of cocaine, eight tons of marijuana, and a half-ton of methamphetamine.
50 reporters killed or missing in Mexico since 2000 as drug violence has skyrocketed, according to Paris-based Reporters Without Borders. reporters are working on a battlefield: Mexico is considered the most dangerous Latin American nation in which to be a journalist, and one of the riskiest in the world
According to U.S. and Mexican officials. High-powered automatic weapons and ammunition are flowing virtually unchecked from border states into Mexico, fueling a war among drug traffickers, the army and police that has left thousands dead. More than 6,700 licensed gun dealers have set up shop within a short drive of the 2,000-mile border, from the Gulf Coast of Texas to San Diego -- which amounts to more than three dealers for every mile of border territory. Law enforcement has come to call the region an "iron river of guns
According to Mexicos National Security Council, there were over 14,000 handguns and assault rifles, and 863 grenades of all types seized between December 1, 2006, when President Calderón took office, and April 2008.
More than 90% of guns seized at the border or after raids and shootings in Mexico have been traced to the United States, according to the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Last year, 2,455 weapons traces requested by Mexico showed that guns had been purchased in the United States, according to the ATF. Texas, Arizona and California accounted for 1,805 of those traced weapons. The Mexican authorities say they seized 20,000 weapons from drug gangs in 2008, the majority bought in the United States. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/26/us/26borders.html?_r=1
In 2007, the firearms agency traced 2,400 weapons seized in Mexico back to dealers in the United States, and 1,800 of those came from dealers operating in the four states along the border, with Texas first, followed by California, Arizona and New Mexico.
More than 60 Americans have been kidnaped in Nuevo Laredo, and in July 2007.in 2008 more than 350 American kidnapped. The U.S. Justice Department said recently that Mexican gangs are the "biggest organized crime threat to the United States," operating in at least 230 cities and towns
Two rival alliances now compete for turf. The Tijuana cartel formed an alliance with
The Gulf cartel as a result of prison negotiations by their leaders. Several cartels have also formed an alliance known as "The Federation." The Federation is led by representatives of the Sinaloa, Juárez, and Valencia cartels. The cartels work
together, but remain independent organizations
"The three highest priorities for me in terms of U.S. cooperation in the drugs war are these: guns, guns, guns," Mexican Attorney General Eduardo Medina Mora said in a recent interview with The Wall Street Journal. "These drug groups intimidate society and government because of their firepowerhttp://online.wsj.com/article/SB123595012797004865.html?mod=rss_whats_news_us
From January 2000 through September 2006, the Mexican government arrested over 79,000 people on charges related to drug trafficking. Of these arrests, some 78,831 are low level drug dealers. Mexico also arrested 15 cartel leaders, 74 lieutenants, 53 financial officers, and 428 hitmen (sicarios).4 Mexican authorities arrested nearly 10,000 people on drug-related charges from December 2006 through August 2007
In January 2006, the National Drug Intelligence Center reported that gangs such as the Latin Kings and Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) buy methamphetamine from Mexican drug cartels for distribution in the southwestern United States. According to the FBI, Mexican cartels focus only on wholesale distribution, leaving retail sales of illicit drugs to street gangs. The Mexican cartels reportedly work with multiple gangs and do not take sides in U.S. gang conflicts.
INCLE Assistance to Mexico, FY2002 to FY2008 (in millions of U.S. $)
FY2002 US$ 37.0 million, FY2003-US$ 12.0.million, FY2004-US$ 37.0million, FY2005-US$39.7 million, FY2006-US$ 39.6 million, FY2007-US$ 36.6 million, FY2008-US$ 27.8 million.
Business owners, law enforcement officers, journalists and other professionals are among those seeking asylum in the U.S. -- even when it means sitting in jail
drug gangs now extort businesses, setting up a parallel tax system that threatens the government monopoly on raising tax money Since Operation Xcellerator began,in 2009 about 70 distribution hubs and cells across 26 US states have been shut down, resulting in the seizure of 12,000kg of cocaine, 7,250kg of marijuana, 544kg of methamphetamine and 1.3 million Ecstasy pills.
Peruvian authorities suspect a Mexican cartel in the killing of a federal judge in July that shocked this nation. The allegations underscore the presence of Mexican cartels in the multibillion-dollar shadow economy in Peru, the world's second-largest producer of cocaine after neighboring Colombia
"The [Tijuana] cartel's message to authorities was very clear: Messing with us will cost you your life," said Ricardo Valdes, a former Peruvian interior minister and now head of the economic research organization Human and Social Capital.
Once they were merely known as "mules" for Colombia's powerful cocaine cartels. Today, Mexico's narcotics traffickers have grown into drug lords in their own right, and the front line of the drug war has shifted from the Andean jungles to America's front door
According to numbers provided by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), 92% of cocaine entering the United States comes from the Mexican mafias. The countries of origin are Colombia (60%), Peru (30%) and Bolivia (10%). Current estimates are that the U.S. drug market is a 70 billion dollar business annually Living in Peru News 6 major Mexican drug cartels operating in Peru
One arrested drug-trafficker collaborating with police revealed that they acquired two tons of cocaine for US$ 2 million and sold it for US$ 62 million. With these kinds of profits it is pretty easy to influence the conscience of port and airport officials.
Violent Mexican cartels that have killed thousands in a drug war at home this year are increasingly smuggling drugs to Europe by way of Africa, A 15-month international drug sweep called Project Reckoning captured 500 Gulf cartel collaborators in the United States, Mexico and Italy, where the The powerfull Mexican Drug Cartels have teamed with the notorious Italian Ndrangheta crime syndicate.Mexican Drug Cartels Move in On Europe, Africa - Mexico | Vacation Packages | Travel Site | Mexico Blog
Conclusion
The former presidents of three Latin and South American countries Cardoso from Brazil, Gaviria from Colombia and Zedillo from Mexico resolutely state that the war on drugs has failed
Special Operations Forces. I.E, U.S Navy SEAL teams along with DEVGRU (Devlopment Group), U.S Army Special Forces(Green Berets) along with C.A.G (Combat Applications Group) need to send in Mexico other wise USA will has devastated effect on his economy and population . Afghanistan is important or USA backyard, Obama has to make decision, Islamic terrorist are worries or Drugs cartel are scary.
A number of agencies and offices within the Department of Justice (FBI, DEA, NDIC, and Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force) are engaged in inter-departmental efforts with the Department of the Treasury (Financial Crimes Enforcement Network and Office of Foreign Assets Control) and Department of Homeland Security (Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Customs and Border Protection) to disrupt the illicit flow of money between Mexican drug-trafficking organizations and their US Operative can not stop these money Laundering and keep this primary concern including UK,this money laundering is huge than Afghanistan money laundery
Usman Karim is based in Lahore Pakistan lmno25@hotmail.com
Mexico is a top challenge for President Obama or Nuclear Iran and Pakistan?
George W. Grayson, an expert on Mexico-U.S. relations at the College of William and Mary in Virginia, said. Its a no mans land. Its totally out of control
The army has been devastated by desertions up to 15,000 men each year, some of whom defect becoming highly paid cartel assassins
Pakistan is the greater worry, But Mexico is scary .Pakistan is fighting for survival against USA led Islamic radicals, Mexico is waging a do-or-die battle with the world's most powerful drug cartels a CIA brain child.
No country is more important to the U.S. than Mexico. Drug war makes it one of the most dangerous countries in the world, and the extreme violence has intensified since the federal government launched a crackdown against the cartels. The fight against drug trafficking in Mexico seems hopeless. The body count grows steadily, each massacre seemingly more gruesome than the one before. The flow of drugs to America and Europe continues virtually unabated
Mexico, a country of 110 million people, becomes even a near Narco state; the effect on the U.S. makes that the Western Hemisphere is almost incalculable. Theres a lot more at stake for American interests in Mexico, the third-most populous country in this hemisphere (after the U.S. and Brazil). Mexico has the worlds 13th-largest economy with significant American investment. Its second-largest trading partner of USA. Mexico is third-largest oil supplier and the worlds eighth-largest exporter. Its got lots of natural gas, too.
Mexico has long been in the crosshairs of the drug war. In the 1980s, the drug of choice for local traffickers was marijuana but now situation is changed Mexico, a major drug producing and transit country, is the main foreign supplier of marijuana and a major supplier of methamphetamine to the United States. Although Mexico accounts for only a small share of worldwide heroin production, it supplies a large share of heroin consumed in the United States. An estimated 90% of cocaine entering the United States transits Mexico.
The Mexican border town Juarez,. With a population about the same as Philadelphia's Juarez had; Philadelphia had 332. of 1.7 million had an estimated 3,600 drug related-murders in 2008, the death toll rising faster than in Baghdad. In the first days of 2009, over 30 were killed in the city from drug violence The situation is increasingly grave with an average of 45 people being killed in narcotics-related violence in Mexico every day. The drug war in Mexico consumed nearly 4,000 lives in 2006 doubles the number in 2007. In 2008 10000 people dead gunned down, tortured, beheadedall to maintain the flow of illegal drugs into the United States
Editorial: Front Line: Mexico | Philadelphia Inquirer | 03/01/2009
Eduardo Medina Mora, the Mexican Attorney-General, that his country had spent $6.5 billion over the past two years fighting drug gangs who have a combined annual turnover of $ 40 billion a year and control swaths of national territory. . Over 1,400 people had been killed in drug violence so far this year, Mexico?s Drug War Is a Battle for Hearts and Minds | Newsweek International | Newsweek.com
Day after day, there are so many horrible things taking place there," said Howard Campbell, an anthropologist at the University of Texas at El Paso who studies Mexico's drug war. "The cartels are trying to control everything."
According to American ex- anti drug czar Barry Mc Caffrey, 130 cartels and criminal associations exist in Mexico, 100 of them concentrate their business at the borders to the United States.The seven major cartels are present in most of Mexicos 31 states and one federal district, that the major cartels Gulf, Sinaloa, and Juárez -- are present in much of Mexico most of the violence takes place along the Mexican side of the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexican border. Its no surprise: The Mexican illegal drug business may be worth as much as $25 billion to $40 billion annually, shipping hundreds of tons of methamphetamine, marijuana, cocaine and heroin into the U.S.
In December 2006, President Felipe Calderón launched operations against the cartels in 19 of Mexico's 32 states. He has pledged to use extradition as a tool against drug traffickers, and sent 64 criminals to the United States as of August 2007, including the alleged head of the Gulf Cartel.
Total Federal police (both preventing and investigating) 44,490
Total State police expect federal district (both preventing and investigating) 188,531
Total Municipal police (preventive all Municipalites) 139,571
Total 450271 vs. 300,000 Foot soldiers of different drugs cartel
www.wilsoncenter.org/news/docs/Olson Brief.pdf
According to the U.S. National Drug Intelligence Center (NDIC). Mexican cartels have been around for a while but have become increasingly prominent and powerful as drug routes north have shifted westward into Mexico, especially since the demise of the Colombian Cali and Medellin cartels in the 1990s. They come well-armed for their fights, bringing automatic weapons, Surface to Air Missiles ,Anti tank missiles powerful handguns, .50-caliber sniper rifles, grenades, rocket-propelled grenade launchers and even land mines to bear.
Like a modern military, they wear night-vision goggles, move by helicopters and transport drugs in submersibles built in Latin American jungles. Their means of communications are impressive, too, incorporating Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP), satellite technology, cell phone text and encrypted messaging.
According to the U.S. Justice Department. Some cases, observers say these gangs are private armies in the cartels employ, serving as hit squads. (Some, such as the Zetas, are former commandos.) Adding to the challenge, Mexican gangs (many associated with the cartels) smuggle drugs, firearms and illegal aliens across the U.S.-Mexico border, especially through South Texas and California
According to a 2004 U.S. Government RICO indictment, between 1990 and 2004, the Norte del Valle cartel exported more than 1.2 million pounds or 500 metric tons of cocaine worth in excess of $10 billion from Colombia to Mexico and ultimately to the United States for resale
Tijuana cartel the Tijuana cartel is present in at least 15 states with important areas of operation in Tijuana, Mexicali, Tecate, and Ensenada in Baja California and in parts of Sinaloa. A battle is now under way for control of the world's most lucrative border smuggling corridor, that funnels Colombian cocaine, Asian heroin and Mexican-manufactured methamphetamine to US markets. This part of the frontier was long the terrain of the Tijuana cartel run by the Arellano Felix family, The death of Ramon Arellano Felix in a 2002 shootout with police in Mazatlan, and subsequent arrests of brothers Benjamin and Francisco Javier, has left day-to-day operations in the hands of less-established subordinates, who are themselves under pressure. Federal police in March arrested Gustavo Rivera Martinez, the gang's suspected financial mastermind, and Saul Montes de Oca, a reputed cell leader the country's first narco-clan. drug "queen-pin" Enedina Arellano Felix. While she supervises the financial and money-laundering business, her nephew Fernando "The Engineer" Sanchez Arellano is in charge of smuggling and armed operations.
Sinaloa cartel, The biggest and most violent combatants are the Sinaloa cartel, known by U.S. and Mexican federal law enforcement officials as the "Federation" or "Golden Triangle The Sinaloa cartel has a presence in 17 states, with important centers in Mexico City; Tepic, Nayarit; Toluca and Cuautitlán, Mexico State; and most of the state of Sinaloa.Guzman, nickname "El Chapo," Spanish for "Shorty." Guzman, the commander of Mexico's most powerful narcotics network, the so-called Sinaloa cartel, named for the Pacific coast state that is the historic cradle of Mexican drug trafficking Sinaloa cartel, Mexico's most powerful drug gang.
In response to the Zetas, the Sinaloa cartel established its own heavily-armed enforcer gangs, the Negros and Pelones. Both are less sophisticated than the Zetas, and focused on attacks against adversaries. Edgar "La Barbie" Valdés Villarreal is alleged to be the head of the Negros. The Negros are believed to be "responsible for the recent rise in attacks against police officers in Nuevo Laredo, in an attempt to wrest control over the local police from the Zetas."
And in this internecine war, some of the Tijuana organisation's most-feared figures have switched sides, throwing in their lot with the Sinaloa faction. They include a ruthless killer, known as El Teo, and his feared lieutenants known as Crutches (because he has left many victims crippled) and The ***** (a man, despite the offensive nickname).
Gulf cartel. Los Zetas" or the Gulf Cartel The Gulf cartel is present in 13 states with important areas of operation in the cities of Nuevo Laredo, Miguel Alemán, Reynosa, and Matamoros in the northern state of Tamaulipas. The Gulf cartel also has important operations in Monterrey in Nuevo León; and Morelia in Michoacán. The Zetas has cemented the dominance of the Gulf cartel in Nuevo Laredo. the first time a drug lord has had his own paramilitary. Most reports indicate that the Zetas were created by a group of 30 lieutenants and sub lieutenants who deserted from the Mexican military's Special Air Mobile Force Group (Grupo Aeromovil de Fuerzas Especiales, GAFES) to the Gulf cartel in the late 1990s. Estimates on the number of Zetas range from 31 to up to 200.
In September 2005 testimony to the Mexican Congress, then-Defense Secretary Clemente Vega indicated that the Zetas had also hired at least 30 former Guatemalan special forces (Kaibiles) to train new recruits because "the number of former Mexican special forces men in their ranks had shrunk. The Zetas act as assassins for the Gulf cartel. The Zetas also trained the Michoacán-based "La Familia" enforcer gang which has carried out numerous executions in that state. The Familia maintains close ties to the Zetas, but are a smaller entity.
The Juárez cartel has been found in 21 Mexican states and its principle bases are: Culiacán, Sinaloa; Monterrey, Nuevo León; the cities of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, and Ojinaga, Chihuahua; Mexico City; Guadalajara, Jalisco; Cuernavaca, Morelos; and Cancún, Quintana Roo.The consortium of gangs that has traditionally dominated the drug trade, the so-called Juarez cartel Both groups have well-armed private armies that mercilessly eliminate enemies and potential impediments such as police detectives
Guadalajara Cartel was a Mexican drug cartel which was formed in the 1980's by Rafael Caro Quintero and Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo in order to ship heroin and marijuana to the United States. Among the first of the Mexican drug trafficking groups to work with the Colombian cocaine mafias, the Guadalajara cartel prospered from the cocaine trade, eventually broadening into a group known as the Federation.Most of the business was eventually taken over by the Tijuana Cartel.
Migrations have become increasingly common in metropolitan areas along the U.S.-Mexico border, as the ongoing violence of a brutal drug war has disrupted lives from Tijuana to Nuevo Laredo, across the Rio Grande from Texas
As of early October 2007, the war appears to have had an effect on the drugs trade in the United States. In 37 states the price of cocaine has gone up by as much as 24%, while the average purity has dropped by 11%.Cook, Colleen W., ed. (October 16, 2007), "CSR Report for Congress" (PDF), Mexico's Drug Cartels, USA: Congressional Research Service
The Mexican Army has severely curtailed the ability of the Mexican drug cartels to move cocaine inside U.S.A. and Canada, prompting an upsurge in gang violence in Vancouver, where the cocaine price has increased from $23,300 to almost $39,000 per kilo as both the U.S. and Canadian governments are experiencing prolonged shortages of coca
U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. announced the arrest of 755 people nationwide associated with a Mexican cartel. Also seized were nearly $60 million in cash, 13 tons of cocaine, eight tons of marijuana, and a half-ton of methamphetamine.
50 reporters killed or missing in Mexico since 2000 as drug violence has skyrocketed, according to Paris-based Reporters Without Borders. reporters are working on a battlefield: Mexico is considered the most dangerous Latin American nation in which to be a journalist, and one of the riskiest in the world
According to U.S. and Mexican officials. High-powered automatic weapons and ammunition are flowing virtually unchecked from border states into Mexico, fueling a war among drug traffickers, the army and police that has left thousands dead. More than 6,700 licensed gun dealers have set up shop within a short drive of the 2,000-mile border, from the Gulf Coast of Texas to San Diego -- which amounts to more than three dealers for every mile of border territory. Law enforcement has come to call the region an "iron river of guns
According to Mexicos National Security Council, there were over 14,000 handguns and assault rifles, and 863 grenades of all types seized between December 1, 2006, when President Calderón took office, and April 2008.
More than 90% of guns seized at the border or after raids and shootings in Mexico have been traced to the United States, according to the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Last year, 2,455 weapons traces requested by Mexico showed that guns had been purchased in the United States, according to the ATF. Texas, Arizona and California accounted for 1,805 of those traced weapons. The Mexican authorities say they seized 20,000 weapons from drug gangs in 2008, the majority bought in the United States. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/26/us/26borders.html?_r=1
In 2007, the firearms agency traced 2,400 weapons seized in Mexico back to dealers in the United States, and 1,800 of those came from dealers operating in the four states along the border, with Texas first, followed by California, Arizona and New Mexico.
More than 60 Americans have been kidnaped in Nuevo Laredo, and in July 2007.in 2008 more than 350 American kidnapped. The U.S. Justice Department said recently that Mexican gangs are the "biggest organized crime threat to the United States," operating in at least 230 cities and towns
Two rival alliances now compete for turf. The Tijuana cartel formed an alliance with
The Gulf cartel as a result of prison negotiations by their leaders. Several cartels have also formed an alliance known as "The Federation." The Federation is led by representatives of the Sinaloa, Juárez, and Valencia cartels. The cartels work
together, but remain independent organizations
"The three highest priorities for me in terms of U.S. cooperation in the drugs war are these: guns, guns, guns," Mexican Attorney General Eduardo Medina Mora said in a recent interview with The Wall Street Journal. "These drug groups intimidate society and government because of their firepowerhttp://online.wsj.com/article/SB123595012797004865.html?mod=rss_whats_news_us
From January 2000 through September 2006, the Mexican government arrested over 79,000 people on charges related to drug trafficking. Of these arrests, some 78,831 are low level drug dealers. Mexico also arrested 15 cartel leaders, 74 lieutenants, 53 financial officers, and 428 hitmen (sicarios).4 Mexican authorities arrested nearly 10,000 people on drug-related charges from December 2006 through August 2007
In January 2006, the National Drug Intelligence Center reported that gangs such as the Latin Kings and Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) buy methamphetamine from Mexican drug cartels for distribution in the southwestern United States. According to the FBI, Mexican cartels focus only on wholesale distribution, leaving retail sales of illicit drugs to street gangs. The Mexican cartels reportedly work with multiple gangs and do not take sides in U.S. gang conflicts.
INCLE Assistance to Mexico, FY2002 to FY2008 (in millions of U.S. $)
FY2002 US$ 37.0 million, FY2003-US$ 12.0.million, FY2004-US$ 37.0million, FY2005-US$39.7 million, FY2006-US$ 39.6 million, FY2007-US$ 36.6 million, FY2008-US$ 27.8 million.
Business owners, law enforcement officers, journalists and other professionals are among those seeking asylum in the U.S. -- even when it means sitting in jail
drug gangs now extort businesses, setting up a parallel tax system that threatens the government monopoly on raising tax money Since Operation Xcellerator began,in 2009 about 70 distribution hubs and cells across 26 US states have been shut down, resulting in the seizure of 12,000kg of cocaine, 7,250kg of marijuana, 544kg of methamphetamine and 1.3 million Ecstasy pills.
Peruvian authorities suspect a Mexican cartel in the killing of a federal judge in July that shocked this nation. The allegations underscore the presence of Mexican cartels in the multibillion-dollar shadow economy in Peru, the world's second-largest producer of cocaine after neighboring Colombia
"The [Tijuana] cartel's message to authorities was very clear: Messing with us will cost you your life," said Ricardo Valdes, a former Peruvian interior minister and now head of the economic research organization Human and Social Capital.
Once they were merely known as "mules" for Colombia's powerful cocaine cartels. Today, Mexico's narcotics traffickers have grown into drug lords in their own right, and the front line of the drug war has shifted from the Andean jungles to America's front door
According to numbers provided by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), 92% of cocaine entering the United States comes from the Mexican mafias. The countries of origin are Colombia (60%), Peru (30%) and Bolivia (10%). Current estimates are that the U.S. drug market is a 70 billion dollar business annually Living in Peru News 6 major Mexican drug cartels operating in Peru
One arrested drug-trafficker collaborating with police revealed that they acquired two tons of cocaine for US$ 2 million and sold it for US$ 62 million. With these kinds of profits it is pretty easy to influence the conscience of port and airport officials.
Violent Mexican cartels that have killed thousands in a drug war at home this year are increasingly smuggling drugs to Europe by way of Africa, A 15-month international drug sweep called Project Reckoning captured 500 Gulf cartel collaborators in the United States, Mexico and Italy, where the The powerfull Mexican Drug Cartels have teamed with the notorious Italian Ndrangheta crime syndicate.Mexican Drug Cartels Move in On Europe, Africa - Mexico | Vacation Packages | Travel Site | Mexico Blog
Conclusion
The former presidents of three Latin and South American countries Cardoso from Brazil, Gaviria from Colombia and Zedillo from Mexico resolutely state that the war on drugs has failed
Special Operations Forces. I.E, U.S Navy SEAL teams along with DEVGRU (Devlopment Group), U.S Army Special Forces(Green Berets) along with C.A.G (Combat Applications Group) need to send in Mexico other wise USA will has devastated effect on his economy and population . Afghanistan is important or USA backyard, Obama has to make decision, Islamic terrorist are worries or Drugs cartel are scary.
A number of agencies and offices within the Department of Justice (FBI, DEA, NDIC, and Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force) are engaged in inter-departmental efforts with the Department of the Treasury (Financial Crimes Enforcement Network and Office of Foreign Assets Control) and Department of Homeland Security (Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Customs and Border Protection) to disrupt the illicit flow of money between Mexican drug-trafficking organizations and their US Operative can not stop these money Laundering and keep this primary concern including UK,this money laundering is huge than Afghanistan money laundery
Usman Karim is based in Lahore Pakistan lmno25@hotmail.com
