Sinaloa Cartel Essays

  • Sinaloa Cartel Essay

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    Sinaloa Cartel was founded in the 1980s by Joaquín Guzmán, Juan José Esparragoza Moreno, Ismael Zambada García, and Héctor Luis Palma Salazar. They are located in Culiacán, Sinaloa state, Mexico, and primarily sell Narcotics. They are mostly known for selling illegal drugs, Smuggly drugs to the U.S., and disrupting Narcotics through Mexico/United States. We will see how the Sinaloa Cartel operates throughout the United States. Sinaloa Cartel operates by creating and selling drugs such as Cocaine

  • Sinaloa Cartel Essay

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    The Sinaloa Cartel is currently considered a transnational criminal organization that has a reach far beyond their local area of operations in Mexico. The Sinaloa Cartel has operations throughout the globe and are currently suspected to have active operations in over 52 countries world-wide and because of this they are considered one of the most infamous cartels known world-wide. There are not many years, months or even weeks that can go by without the Sinaloa Cartel making international headlines

  • Sinaloa Cartel Research Paper

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    The Sinaloa Cartel is an international drug trafficking organization, money laundering and organized crime syndicate. It is known for being one of the most powerful drug trafficking organizations in the Western Hemisphere (InSight Crime, Sinaloa Cartel). The organization’s historical roots go back to the 1970’s in which one of the first drug traffickers to smuggle marijuana in large quantities was Pedro Aviles, who later brought Joaquin El Chapo Loera, also known as “El Chapo” into the business,

  • Sinaloa Cartel Research Paper

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    There are several notable transnational criminal organizations. The Sinaloa Cartel was founded and controlled by billionaire Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. This particular cartel stands out due to the overwhelming attention it has received television shows and the media. Often, in these movies, El Chapo is depicted as a hero to the people in Mexico. Such movies show him providing money, food, clothing and medical necessities for the Mexican citizens. Some people even described him as a Mexican version

  • Sinaloa Cartel Research Paper

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    Who are the cartels?The cartels are organization you don 't want to mess with.These type of gangs are nothing to take lightly.If you mess with these groups they will find you and do something to you that you might regret messing with them.The top three cartels are The Sinaloa cartel, The Juarez cartel, The Tijuana cartel and are the most dangerous groups out there. The cartels were started when Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo was arrested for murder a DEA Agent in 1989.Later more cartels were formed

  • Sinaloa Cartel: A Comparative Analysis

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    the Mexican Special Forces conducted a raid against the Sinaloa Cartel, one of the most deadly organizations, on a ranch in northern Mexico. Cartels are not necessarily terrorist groups but a lot of their focuses are similar to those of terrorist organizations. This cartel specifically turned some areas of Mexico into a virtual shell state. A state in which the countries own government cannot effectively rule. Another similarity is that cartels also use the same underground networks terrorist groups

  • The Sinaloa Cartel: The Rise Of The New Mexico

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    2018). These farmers are operating their Avocado farms on the “territory of the cartel” to make money without any remnants of fingerprints

  • El Chapo: Building Of The Sinaloa Cartel

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    There are many Drug Lord’s all over the world but none as infamous as the notorious most wanted, Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán. Chapo is known for the building of the Sinaloa cartel, the most powerful organized crime institution across the world, mainly notorious for drug trafficking. Mostly marijuana, heroin, methamphetamines, and cocaine are smuggled across other countries, mainly to the United States. Chapo is also well known for escaping custody ten times easier than it takes for him to actually

  • Sinaloa Cartel Analysis

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    marijuana. Currently it is estimated that the “drug cartels make $19 to $29 billion annually from US drug sales” (CNN, 2017, para. 4). The drug smuggling business is nothing new. One could trace drug smuggling back to the Chinese and its opium back in the 1800 and early 1900’s. Eventual the drug smuggling evolved into cocaine and marijuana coming in from Mexico starting in the 70’s with the well know cartels. Many bills and laws were passed

  • Cartel De Jalisco Nueva Generacion

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    Introduction The CJNG, which stands for Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion or the New Generation of the Jalisco Cartel is considered by US and Mexican officials as one of the most powerful and dangerous cartels in the world. CJNG have quickly expanded their operations in the last 5 years since they first proclaimed their existence via YouTube claiming to be the Mata-Zetas (Killer of Zetas) and protectors of kidnappers and murders in the state of Jalisco. The rise of CJNG in part can be credited

  • The Decriminalization Of Drugs

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    Cartels all across the nation have a big influence on the raging war with drugs. By Mexico and Colombia trafficking drugs across the border by land, sea, and air, it adds fuel to the constant fire burning known as drug addicts. Not only do they affect society, but doctors assist in this habit by prescribing unnecessary narcotics to treat minor aches and pains. The most commonly traded drugs include marijuana and cocaine, shown as mostly popular among teens and young adults. Because of the number

  • Los Zetas: Mexico's Second Most Powerful Drug Cartel

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    ¨los mata zatas¨ or the killer Zs were initially started in 1999 when the leader of the Gulf Cartel (Osiel Cardenal Guillen) asked Arturo Guzman Decenas; his bodyguard, to kill the recently appointed Godfather of his just baptized daughter. After killing the Godfather Guzman earned Guilless's trust and earned the title of ¨Z-1¨. Later starting what would be known as Los Zetas, they would help the Gulf Cartel grow and expand their drug business throughout the Mexican Gulf coast. Guillen ¨gained regional

  • Los Aztecas: Gang And Drug Trafficker

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    returning to Mexico. By 2013, it was reported that there were about 7,000 members in Mexico and the United States combined (e.g., El Paso, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania). Los Aztecas have long been working closely with drug cartels. One of their main allies is the Juárez cartel, a drug cartel based in Juárez, Mexico, for

  • Economic Influence Of Drug Trafficking In The United States

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    The ability to be able to have so much power and influence over so many things that affect our lives is inconceivable. From simple activities of a normal daily life to how a country can run and how it may flourish, the effects that drug trafficking has grown to new heights. The war on drugs has long been a struggle in many different countries and goes across the entire world. While some countries have been able to limit the trafficking, others struggle to contain it and simply cannot stop it. Drug

  • There Was The Rise Of The Jean Cartel In The United States

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    The Mexican cartel first started in the 60s and 70s with the Guadalajara cartel. The Guadalajara cartel got into some issue in the mid-1980s by kidnapping, torturing and murdering a U.S DEA agent Enrique Camarena. This event made the U.S government energized and focused on the Guadalajara cartel, which then led them to arrest and break up the Guadalajara cartel after the U.S government broke up the Guadalajara cartels leader Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo aka El Padrino or The Godfather divided his

  • Human Trafficking In Mexico

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    countries. Laws in the U.S. and in Europe were recently made to regulate this black market trade (Davila). More human trafficking occurs in Mexico than anywhere else in the world due to the corruption of government officials, which has allowed drug cartels to become very powerful. In cities like Tenancingo,

  • Mexican Cartel Case Study

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    In the 1980’s the Guadalajara cartel emerged as the premier Mexican drug trafficking organization (DTO). Since that time the Mexican Transnational Criminal Organizations (MTCO) have expanded their drug trafficking networks internationally. Throughout the 1980’s and early 1990’s several organizations, such as the Gulf Cartel, began to emerge however, the majority of the Mexican drug trade was controlled by Juan Garcia Abrego and several other “Capos”. The vertical hierarchy facilitated law enforcement

  • The Los Zetas In Mexico

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    business. (Figure 1) Many people who decide to go against the cartel, or not help them often become the victims. Figure 1-Homocide Victims (Source: MexicoDailyNews 2016) The government and government officials have tried many times to take control of this growing industry, but it has gotten far out of control. It is far beyond their control.

  • Essay On Missouri Law And Monopolies

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    Missouri Law and Monopolies America is a nation that is founded on the belief that personal freedoms are important. This notion certainly extends to the realm of business decisions as well--as such, early on in America’s history, there were not many regulations placed on businesses. However, over time, monopolies began to develop. These monopolies were considered to be bad for the market, because they discouraged competition, and as a result, led to over inflated prices on various goods and services

  • The Effects Of The Sherman Anti-Trust Act

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    Since the end of the Civil War, powerful men, referred to as captains of industry, formed trusts to control markets. They did this through their collusion, price-fixing, and anticompetitive activities, which took a toll on competition and innovation. The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was passed to combat the harmful effect of trusts which the captains of industry controlled by creating an uneven playing field through their size and scope. The act passed with strong public support however due