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įederal law enforcement has been reorganized at least five times since 1982 in various attempts to control corruption and reduce cartel violence. Arrests of key cartel leaders, particularly in the Tijuana and Gulf cartels, have led to increasing drug violence as cartels fight for control of the trafficking routes into the United States. Mexican drug cartels dominate wholesale illicit drug markets and in 2007 controlled 90% of the cocaine entering the United States. After his arrest, the alliance broke and high-ranking members formed their own cartels, fighting for control of territory and trafficking routes.Īlthough Mexican drug trafficking organizations have existed for several decades, their influence increased after the demise of the Colombian Cali and Medellín cartels in the 1990s.

Violence escalated soon after the arrest of Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo in 1989 he was the leader and the founder of the first Mexican drug cartel, the Guadalajara Cartel, an alliance of the current existing cartels (which included the Sinaloa Cartel, the Juarez Cartel, the Tijuana Cartel, and the Sonora Cartel). The Mexican government has asserted that their primary focus is dismantling the cartels, and preventing drug trafficking demand along with U.S. When the Mexican military began to intervene in 2006, the government's main objective was to reduce drug-related violence. federal government, an ongoing asymmetric low-intensity conflict between the Mexican government and various drug trafficking syndicates. The Mexican drug war (also known as the Mexican war on drugs Spanish: Guerra contra el narcotráfico en México) is the Mexican theater of the global war on drugs, as led by the U.S. United States through the Mérida InitiativeĬolombia through the National Police of ColombiaĪustralia through the Australian Federal Police Throughout Mexico, with occasional spillover across international borders into Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, and California, and also into the Central and South American countries of El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Belize, Venezuela, Colombia, and Guatemala

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