Translated by Yaqui for Borderland Beat from Zeta
By: Carlos Alvarez
June 29, 2017
June 29, 2017
For the first time in 40 years: The Sinaloa Cartel has ceded territory to CJNG, Jalisco Nuevo Generacion Cartel, led by "El Mencho", according to a Narco Data Report.
According to NarcoData - an interactive site that presents an X-ray of the last four decades of criminal groups in Mexico - data from the Attorney General's Office (PGR) show that the Sinaloa Cartel activity declined in the country, with its presence in eleven states during 2016, now it is only in seven and with fewer operating cells in operation.
The microsite of the Political Animal portal attributes this diminution of the presence of the Sinaloa Cartel in the states of the country, since the extradition to the United States of its leader, Joaquin Archivaldo Guzmán Loera, aka "El Chapo", last January. According to NarcoData: federal authorities have said that the extradition of "El Chapo" provoked reshuffling in the leadership of the group that he was running, as well as the advance of other criminal organizations such as the Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) Cartel, which, according to the data, is already the criminal group with more presence in the country.
NarcoData, who has registered the advance of the Sinaloa Cartel in the country since its inception in the 1980s, indicated that with "El Chapo", the criminal organization became the "most powerful" because it managed to extend its influence to 24 of the 32 entities/states of the country. "So far, no other organization has operated in so many states and has long resisted the onslaught of the federal government to weaken it."
With "El Chapo Guzman", the Sinaloa Cartel was the first criminal organization to successfully participate and lead in the trafficking of four drugs: marijuana, cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine, states the NarcoData report. At the start of Enrique Peña Nieto's six-year term, Sinaloa Cartel was the organization with the most presence in the country, but according to PGR data, it lost almost half its area of influence, giving way to all but the northwestern states of the country , said NarcoData.
The latest official records show, for the first time in 40 years, that the Sinaloa Cartel lost some of its presence in the country. So far in 2017, the Sinaloa criminal organization has lost its presence in the Mexican Pacific area in states such as Colima, Nayarit and Jalisco, where it has ceded land to the CJNG. The Sinaloa Cartel has also stopped operating in the Yucatan Peninsula, according to information from the PGR about criminal organizations with operations in the country.
Where the Sinaloan criminal group still has activities is in the Mexican northwest with presence in the states of Chihuahua, Sonora, Durango, Coahuila, Baja California, Baja California Sur and Sonora. The Sinaloa Cartel's activity through criminal cells also declined; since 2015 there is data from up to ten criminal groups, but in the first four months of this year there are only records that the criminal group is related to seven: Los Artistas, Nueve Gente, Los Cabreras, the Cartel del Oeste; and the gangs in charge of "Los Achilles", "El Tigre" and "Del 28".
Guzman Loera was extradited to the United States on January 19, 2017 and was detained at the Metropolitan Detention Center, a federal prison in New York City. The extradition of the capo took place after three detentions and two escapes of maximum security Mexican prisons, between 2001 and 2015.
Prosecutors in charge of his case argue that there is enough evidence to prosecute the capo in the US for at least 17 separate crimes including money laundering, criminal conduct, conspiracy to produce and distribute cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin and marijuana; as well as the use of firearms for the commission of drug offenses.,
NarcoData, who has registered the advance of the Sinaloa Cartel in the country since its inception in the 1980s, indicated that with "El Chapo", the criminal organization became the "most powerful" because it managed to extend its influence to 24 of the 32 entities/states of the country. "So far, no other organization has operated in so many states and has long resisted the onslaught of the federal government to weaken it."
With "El Chapo Guzman", the Sinaloa Cartel was the first criminal organization to successfully participate and lead in the trafficking of four drugs: marijuana, cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine, states the NarcoData report. At the start of Enrique Peña Nieto's six-year term, Sinaloa Cartel was the organization with the most presence in the country, but according to PGR data, it lost almost half its area of influence, giving way to all but the northwestern states of the country , said NarcoData.
The latest official records show, for the first time in 40 years, that the Sinaloa Cartel lost some of its presence in the country. So far in 2017, the Sinaloa criminal organization has lost its presence in the Mexican Pacific area in states such as Colima, Nayarit and Jalisco, where it has ceded land to the CJNG. The Sinaloa Cartel has also stopped operating in the Yucatan Peninsula, according to information from the PGR about criminal organizations with operations in the country.
Where the Sinaloan criminal group still has activities is in the Mexican northwest with presence in the states of Chihuahua, Sonora, Durango, Coahuila, Baja California, Baja California Sur and Sonora. The Sinaloa Cartel's activity through criminal cells also declined; since 2015 there is data from up to ten criminal groups, but in the first four months of this year there are only records that the criminal group is related to seven: Los Artistas, Nueve Gente, Los Cabreras, the Cartel del Oeste; and the gangs in charge of "Los Achilles", "El Tigre" and "Del 28".
Guzman Loera was extradited to the United States on January 19, 2017 and was detained at the Metropolitan Detention Center, a federal prison in New York City. The extradition of the capo took place after three detentions and two escapes of maximum security Mexican prisons, between 2001 and 2015.
Prosecutors in charge of his case argue that there is enough evidence to prosecute the capo in the US for at least 17 separate crimes including money laundering, criminal conduct, conspiracy to produce and distribute cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin and marijuana; as well as the use of firearms for the commission of drug offenses.,