2006 till date....



The Mexican government has been fighting a war with drug traffickers since December 2006.

At the same time, drug cartels have fought each other for supremacy, power, and control of territory.




A skull of someone thought to be a victim of drug violence lies on the ground in Ciudad Juarez.

The border city of Juarez has been racked by violent drug-related crime, making it one of the most dangerous cities in Mexico's war on drugs.

According to figures released on January 11 by the Mexican government, 12,903 people were killed in drug-related violence in the first nine months of 2011.




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Facts:

Enrique Peña Nieto, who was president from 2012 to 2018, continued the fight started by President Felipe Calderon against the cartels and drug-related violence.

A huge victory for his administration was the 2014 arrest of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the boss of one of Mexico's most powerful drug trafficking operations, the Sinaloa cartel.

According to a 2018 Congressional Research Service report, "many sources indicate" that about 150,000 intentional homicides since 2006 were organized crime-related.


Over 500 servicemen killed and 137 missing.

4,020 Federal, State, and Municipal Police killed.

Mexican drug cartels take in between $19 billion and $39 billion annually from drug sales in the US.

Major Cartels:

Beltran Leyva - Founded by the four Beltran Leyva brothers, Arturo, Carlos, Alfredo and Hector. Formerly aligned with the Sinaloa cartel.

All of the brothers have been killed or arrested, but "remnants" of the group continues to operate in parts of Mexico, according to the US Drug Enforcement Agency's 2018 National Drug Threat Assessment.

The subgroups rely on alliances with the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, the Juarez Cartel and Los Zetas.

Gulf Cartel - Based in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, it started in 1920. It split with its enforcers, Los Zetas, by 2010, and the fallout between the two groups has been called the "most violent in the history of organized crime in Mexico," according to a 2018 Congressional Research Service report. The cartel is now splintered into small, competing gangs.

Jalisco New Generation - Split from the Sinaloa Cartel in 2010, it is "one of the most powerful and fastest growing in Mexico and the United States," according to the DEA assessment. The Mexican government has warned it's one of the most dangerous cartels in the country, especially after it shot down a military helicopter in May 2015. Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, known as "El Mencho," is believed to be the group's leader.

Juarez Cartel - Formerly aligned with the Sinaloa Cartel, then began fighting it for control of Ciudad Juarez and the state of Chihuahua.

La Familia Michoacana - Based in the Michoacan state. Possibly defunct as of 2011. It announced it would disband in 2010, but some cells are still active in Guerrero and Mexico states, according to the Congressional Research Service report.

Los Zetas Cartel - Comprised of former elite members of the Mexican military. Initially they worked as hit men for the Gulf Cartel, before becoming independent.

The group has a reputation for being particularly savage and is known for massacres, killing civilians, leaving body parts in public places and posting killings on the internet.

The group's main asset is not drugs, but organized violence, including theft, extortion, human smuggling and kidnapping, according to the Congressional Research Report.


Tijuana/Arellano Felix Cartel - Based in Tijuana. Most of the Arellano Felix brothers have been apprehended or killed.

Sinaloa Cartel - Considered to be the dominant drug trafficking organization in Mexico.

It was founded and led by Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, who was arrested in 2014, escaped in July 2015, and rearrested in January 2016.

He was convicted in a US federal court in February 2019. The cartel may now be operating "with a more horizontal leadership structure than previously thought," according the US DEA report.

Timeline:

December 11, 2006 - Newly elected Mexican President Felipe Calderon deploys more than 6,500 Mexican soldiers to the state of Michoacán to battle drug traffickers.
2006 - In the first few weeks of the government crackdown on drug trafficking, 62 people were killed. (Mexican government, April 2010)

February 2007 - More than 20,000 Mexican soldiers and federal police are spread out across Mexico as part of President Calderon's drug war.

June 25, 2007 - President Calderon fires 284 federal police commanders to weed out corruption.

20007 - In the first full year of the drug war, 2,837 people were killed. (Mexican government, April 2010)

May 8, 2008 - Edgar Eusebio Millan Gomez, Mexico's federal police chief, and two bodyguards are killed in Mexico City.

May 9, 2008 - The commander of Mexico City's investigative police force, Esteban Roble Espinosa, is killed outside his home.

November 1, 2008 - The acting head of Mexico's Federal Police, Victor Gerardo Garay, resigns under suspicion of corruption.

In 2008, 6,844 people are killed in Mexico's drug war. (Mexican government, April 2010).

The Mexican government reports 9,635 deaths in 2009 in the drug war. (Mexican government, April 2010)

August 25, 2010 - The bodies of 72 migrants from South and Central America are discovered on a ranch in Tamaulipas state. It is believed the 58 men and 14 women were kidnapped by the Los Zetas cartel and killed for refusing to traffic drugs.

January 2011 - The Mexican government says that 34,612 citizens have been killed during the four-year drug war.

March 5, 2011 - Alleged Los Zetas drug cartel member Mario Jimenez Perez is arrested in connection with Zapata's murder.

April 2011 - Several mass graves holding 177 bodies are discovered in Tamaulipas, the same area where the bodies of 72 migrants were discovered in 2010.

May 29, 2011 - Ten police officers, including a police chief, are arrested on charges of protecting the Los Zetas drug cartel.

July 27, 2011 - Edgar Jimenez Lugo, known as "El Ponchis" or "The Cloak," a 14-year-old American citizen with suspected drug cartel ties, is found guilty of beheading at least four people. He is sentenced to three years, the maximum for a juvenile, in a Mexican correctional facility.

January 11, 2012 - The office of Mexico's Attorney General releases a statement saying that nearly 13,000 people were killed in drug violence between January and September 2011.

February 22, 2014 - A US official tells CNN that Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the boss of one of Mexico's most powerful drug trafficking operations, has been arrested in Mexico.

July 11, 2015 - "El Chapo" escapes through a hole in his cell block that led to a tunnel nearly a mile long. Guzman previously escaped from prison in 2001 in a laundry cart and eluded authorities for more than a dozen years until his capture in 2014.

January 8, 2016 - Mexican security forces arrest Guzman in Sinaloa. While on the run, he met with actor Sean Penn in October for an interview published in Rolling Stone.

January 19, 2017 - Mexico's Foreign Ministry turns Guzman over to US authorities.

February 12, 2019 - Guzmán is convicted of 10 counts in a New York federal court. He faces a mandatory life sentence without the possibility of parole for leading a continuing criminal enterprise, and a sentence of up to life imprisonment on drug counts. His attorneys say they plan to file an appeal on a number of issues.

August 8, 2019 - Mexican police find 19 bodies in Mexico City. Nine of the bodies are found hanging from an overpass alongside a drug cartel banner threatening rival cartels.

Mexican Federal Police stand guard over 105 tons of marijuana seized in Tijuana, Mexico, in October 2010. Smuggling remains a booming business.

For example, south of the border it costs $2,000 to produce a kilo of cocaine from leaf to lab, according to the DEA. In America, a kilo's street value is significantly higher.

The cartels arm themselves heavily. Here, Mexican Federal Police display a large cache of high-powered weapons, grenades, ammunition and 2 kilos of cocaine, all seized from the Zetas cartel.

Mexican army soldiers display $15 million in Mexico City.

The money was seized from alleged members of the Guzman Loera drug cartel during a raid in the border town of Tijuana, Mexico.



In 2007 Mexican authorities made the largest cash seizure in history when they discovered $205 million in the home of a cartel Lord.

Two bodies hang from a bridge in Mexico.

Cartels have developed reputations for sickening brutality seeming to kill for pleasure.

They behead, dismember with chainsaw, skin alive their victims.

Killing is not problem, but the killing method and numbers of families/relatives/friends that will be cleared along side.



Queenpin apprehended by Mexican authority.

In September, 2018, a truck filled with the rotting bodies of 157 murder victims ended up dumped in a field in Mexico as the country struggles to cope with a record number of murders.

The bodies were loaded on to the refrigerated lorry in Jalisco state after morgues ran out of space, before it ended up behind a residential building.

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I really don’t pray to visit that nation
Narcoterrorists littered everywhere

A murder victim lays in the street in the city of Guadalajara, a short distance from where the truck ended up being dumped.

The Zetas cartel was blamed for setting fire to the Casino Royale in Monterrey, Mexico, killing 52 people.

American-born Edgar Valdez Villareal, or 'La Barbie,' of the Beltran Leyva drug cartel, was arrested in August 2010 in Mexico, and smiled as he was paraded in front of the press.

In 2017, authority discovered mass grave with 255 skulls.

In 2018, at least 166 skulls and 140 Id cards have been found in a mass grave in Mexico where drug cartels are known to dump their victims' bodies.

2019, Mexican investigators confirm at least 44 mutilated bodies were found in a mass grave after residents reported a foul smell.

The dismembered remains were stuffed inside 119 black bags and buried in a well outside the city of Guadalajara, Jalisco.


Thousands of unidentified bodies have been discovered in mass graves across Mexico.

Dramatic footage shows the moment a submarine carrying 12,000 pounds of cocaine worth over $165 million was intercepted by the US coast guard in September, 2019.

Air-conditioned drugs smuggling tunnel discovered on US-Mexico border.

Mexican police have arrested eight men after discovering a sophisticated drug smuggling tunnel complete with air conditioning and a lift being dug into the United States.

Crashed plane

If you need more explanation, watch queen of the south

There is nothing as beautiful as money

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After his election in 2006, President Felipe Calderon declared war on the cartels, sending the military out across the country and fired hundreds of corrupt police officers.



At least nine U.S. citizens in convoy of 3 cars, including six children, who live in the Mexican border state of Sonora were killed in a shooting attack between rival cartels on Monday, 4th November, 2019.

Mexico and drugs are inseparable. These cartels may have the backing of some government officials anyway. Explorers in the building.. well-done

El Chapo tv series comes to mind

Drug cartels.........

The best way to describe this Mexican menace is just like an elaborate buffet containing all manner of classical exotic appetizers, main course and desserts dishes that have been fully paid for.

But instead of the guest to commence feasting on the dishes they start to furiously and violently feast on each other with the cutleries (lethal weapons)

How's cocain made? I always ask that question

Two bodies hang from a bridge in Mexico.

Cartels have developed reputations for sickening brutality seeming to kill for pleasure.

They behead, dismember with chainsaw, skin alive their victims

After taking drugs.

This are the real cartel(s)..........

Snitch Movie and Sicario the day of the Soldado movie comes to mind........


not some werey cultist claiming Mafians here upandan

Okay

The killings in Mexico is on another level.