https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MJHyCnoy_0
Entering Sinaloa Cartel CountryMe, Bald and Bankrupt and Harald Baldr decided to go on a road trip to Culiacan the capital of Sinaloa, Mexico. Sinaloa is hom

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/mexican-drug-cartels-are-targeting-americas-last-great-place-rcna130822
On the evening of March 17, 2020, a former Mexican police officer working for the Sinaloa cartel left his hotel room in Tijuana and walked across the U.S. border into Southern California at 10:09 p.m.

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/07/1192557904/part-1-investigating-how-illicit-fentanyl-is-actually-getting-into-the-u-s
MARK GREEN: The video cameras on the border show the cartel members in camouflage outfits, wearing backpacks full of fentanyl, pouring into our country. CLAY HIGGINS: There's a tremendous amount

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/dea-operation-exposes-growing-links-sinaloa-cartel-chinese-organized-c-rcna157676
Two dozen L.A.-based associates of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel were charged in a sophisticated scheme to launder more than $50 million in drug money through an underground banking system run by

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-charges-against-sinaloa-cartel-s-global-operation
The Justice Department today announced charges unsealed in the Southern District of New York, Northern District of Illinois, and District of Columbia, against several leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel, a transnational drug trafficking organization based in Sinaloa, Mexico, and its facilitators across the globe.

https://apnews.com/article/mexico-army-border-guatemala-drug-cartel-9991f7e3ed3970f45f9b94efbfc5836d
The Sinaloa cartel is fighting the Jalisco New Generation cartel for control of the area, located in a rural, mountainous area north of the border city of Tapachula.. Four men, apparently members of the Jalisco cartel, were found dead over the weekend in a nearby town, according to an employee of the Chiapas state prosecutor's office who spoke on condition of anonymity because the person was

https://insightcrime.org/news/sinaloa-cartel-manage-stay-united/
How Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel Has Stayed United for Decades. by Chris Dalby 17 Jul 2023. DEA agents escort former Sinaloa Cartel leader Joaquín Guzmán Loera, alias "El Chapo." The break-up cycle of large criminal groups in Mexico is a predictable one. One after another, groups have arisen to play major roles in the country's complex drug

https://insightcrime.org/news/analysis/tracking-the-sinaloa-federation-s-international-presence/
Sinaloa has perpetrated its share of violence, but by and large it did not cause disruption to the general well-being of the population." See Jan Albert-Hootsen, "How the Sinaloa Cartel Won Mexico's Drug War," Global Post, February 28, 2013. [7] Bruce Sterling, "Deviant Globalization," Wired, May 5, 2010.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinaloa_Cartel
The Sinaloa Cartel (Spanish: Cártel de Sinaloa, CDS, after the native Sinaloa region), also known as the Guzmán-Zambada Organization, the Federation, the Blood Alliance, [4] [5] [6] or the Pacific Cartel, [7] is a large, international organized crime syndicate based in the city of Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico [8] that specializes in illegal

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-foreign-policies-of-the-sinaloa-cartel-and-cjng-part-v-europes-supercoke-and-on-the-horizon-issues-and-the-middle-east/
A Hezbollah-Sinaloa Cartel (or eventually -CJNG) partnership could bring cocaine and meth to the Middle East at large volumes whether through or around the Assad regime, even though such a move

https://insightcrime.org/news/analysis/mexico-cartels-connections-abroad/
by Elyssa Pachico 19 Sep 2012. Mexican cartels reportedly operate across the Western Hemisphere. Mexico's drug cartels now have a foothold in 16 countries in the Western Hemisphere, according to the Mexican Attorney General's Office, suggesting that these criminal networks have diversified their areas of operation in order to minimize risks

https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/mexicos-long-war-drugs-crime-and-cartels
Originally a paramilitary enforcement arm for the Gulf Cartel, Los Zetas was singled out by the DEA in 2007 as the country's most "technologically advanced, sophisticated, and violent" group

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2024-03-22/us-levies-fentanyl-related-sanctions-on-sinaloa-members-mexico-based-entities
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on 15 Sinaloa Cartel members and six Mexico-based entities involved in the illicit manufacture and trafficking of fentanyl and

https://mx.usembassy.gov/treasury-sanctions-sinaloa-cartel-members-operating-in-sonora/
Based in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, Valenzuela Valenzuela is a Sinaloa Cartel plaza boss. In that role, he oversees a major drug trafficking corridor in Mexico, is responsible for smuggling tons of fentanyl and other drugs into the United States, and reports directly to the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, Ismael Zambada Garcia (a.k.a. "El Mayo").

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2022/utah-fentanyl-crisis-mexico-cartel/
A DEA agent tracked the source of fentanyl in Mormon country — a Mexican cartel. Vehicles in Arizona head in the direction of St. George, Utah, on Interstate 15. (Salwan Georges/The Washington

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/how-the-sinaloa-cartel-rules/
The Sinaloa Cartel has adopted similar approach to fentanyl production and sales, even though CJNG was the first mover into that devastatingly lethal drug economy. The Sinaloa Cartel not only

https://theconversation.com/cartel-sieges-leave-mexicans-wondering-if-criminals-run-the-country-126986
Clouds of smoke from burning cars mark the skyline of Culiacan, Mexico, during a 12-hour siege by the Sinaloa Cartel, Oct. 17, 2019. AP Photo/Hector Parra Cartel sieges leave Mexicans wondering if

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/29/world/americas/mexico-pandemic-drug-trade.html
CULIACÁN, Mexico — Like a lot of businesses, the Sinaloa Cartel was knocked back on its heels as the coronavirus swept the globe and travel ground to a near halt. Government measures to contain

https://english.elpais.com/usa/2023-11-07/the-us-sanctions-mexican-sinaloa-cartel-members-and-firms-over-fentanyl-trafficking.html
The Biden administration on Tuesday imposed sanctions on 13 members of Mexico's powerful Sinaloa cartel and four Sonora, Mexico-based firms accused of trafficking fentanyl and other drugs into the United States.The latest action follows a series of measures taken this year against members of the Sinaloa cartel, cash couriers and cartel fraud schemes.

https://www.dea.gov/press-releases/2024/06/18/federal-indictment-alleges-alliance-between-sinaloa-cartel-and-money
Washington - The Justice Department today announced a 10-count superseding indictment charging Los Angeles-based associates of Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel with conspiring with money-laundering groups linked to Chinese underground banking to launder drug trafficking proceeds. During the conspiracy, more than $50 million in drug proceeds flowed between the Sinaloa Cartel associates and

https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/announcements/cbp-announces-next-phase-fight-targeting-criminals-funneling-fentanyl
Sergio Valenzuela Valenzuela, aka Gio, the Nogales Plaza boss, was indicted by a federal grand jury in 2018 for his role as a Sinaloa Cartel Plaza Boss. "We are entering the next phase in our fight against fentanyl: one where we are going after the plaza bosses, whose organizations are responsible for virtually everything that is smuggled

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/ecuador-ap-sinaloa-cartel-mexico-australia-b2478028.html
In a few short years, experts say, the experience and muscle of the Mexican cartels has turned Ecuador into the shipment point for almost one-third of the cocaine entering Europe.

https://apnews.com/article/sinaloa-cartel-fentanyl-mexico-china-los-angeles-034ad51dd03d0606767215b44aed2e91
Associates of the powerful Sinaloa Cartel conspired with the Chinese groups to cover up more than $50 million in drug profits, much of which was processed in the Los Angeles area, the prosecutors said in a news release. ... are then being used to fund precursor chemicals which will be used to make even more drugs that are sent into our country

https://www.sundayworld.com/crime/irish-crime/sinaloa-cartels-mammoth-cocaine-load-pictured-entering-europe-on-tipperary-reg-truck/a1445486507.html
A MAMMOTH cocaine load smuggled by a major cartel was photographed on pallets in the back of a Tipperary-registered truck, as documents confirming its arrival into Europe were sent by Encrochat

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-says-mexicos-sinaloa-cartel-used-group-tied-chinese-underground-banking-2024-06-18/
The U.S. Justice Department alleged on Tuesday that Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel conspired with groups based in California and tied to Chinese underground banking to launder drug-trafficking proceeds

https://www.fairus.org/news/executive/sinaloa-cartel-and-chinese-criminals-join-forces-launder-millions-drug-profits
In its criminal complaint, the federal government says the Sinaloa Cartel conspired with the Chinese banking groups in southern California to launder up to $50 million in drug trafficking proceeds. This money laundering ring, according to prosecutors, is the result of a new, "complex" criminal partnership between the Sinaloa Cartel and

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/06/19/sinaloa-cartel-chinese-group-money-laundering-los-angeles/74146328007/
The increased flow of illegal drugs has resulted in a large number of overdose deaths each year across the country. The Sinaloa Cartel's activities in the United States generate massive profits