Chihuahua Mexico Drug Cartels

The melee kicked off late friday when gangsters aligned with el chapo s sinaloa cartel exchanged gunfire with drug traffickers from the juarez cartel and other gangs in the state of chihuahua.

Chihuahua mexico drug cartels. The objective is to besiege ciudad juárez to concentrate forces and saturate the area to confront the three cartels already operating in the city. The cartel is one of several drug trafficking organizations that have been known to decapitate their rivals mutilate their corpses and dump them in public places to instill fear not only into the general public but also into local law enforcement and their rivals the sinaloa cartel. The drugs the dea says mexican cartels continue to export significant quantities of heroin cocaine methamphetamine marijuana and fentanyl to u s. The overlap began with a surge in illegal logging.

Nearly three quarters of the bodies were found in the states of sinaloa jalisco colima sonora and chihuahua all notorious for the presence of drug traffickers or organized crime. According to a february report by. In recent months violence between warring cartels in the pine covered mountains of chihuahua around the towns of san juanito and creel is as tied to the illegal wood trade as it is to local drug sales and routes. The sinaloa and juárez drug cartels are currently engaged in a turf war over madera and the surrounding region.

Coordinated operation chihuahua or formerly known as joint operation chihuahua is a military and federal police operation started in 2008 by the mexican army and policía federal preventiva. A clash in las pomas in october left two people dead and forced the closure of. A major shootout between rival drug gangs has killed 19 people in the northern mexico border state of chihuahua officials say. The juárez cartel also known as the vicente carrillo fuentes organization is a mexican drug cartel based in ciudad juárez chihuahua across the mexico u s.

The state prosecutors office said on saturday that 18 corpses two.