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Mexican narco-terrorist organization and paramilitary group
Since about 2015, fentanyl for the U.S. market shifted from being produced largely in Asia to being synthesized and pressed in Mexico, with Mexican cartels—primarily the Sinaloa Cartel (including Los ...
Cartels and networks move drugs and people from South America through Central America primarily via maritime routes (Pacific, Caribbean/Atlantic) and land “pipelines” across the isthmus, using ports, ...
Two dominant Mexican transnational criminal organizations— the Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG)—are identified in U.S. and academic reporting as the principal producers and ...
Mexican cartels function as the principal wholesale distributors and cross-border transporters that move South American cocaine toward U.S. markets, leveraging long-established logistics, alliances an...
Mexican transnational criminal organizations (TCOs), principally the Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), have evolved from transporters to primary producers and distributors o...
Fentanyl consumed in the United States is largely produced from precursor chemicals sourced in China, transformed in clandestine Mexican labs, and then trafficked into U.S. communities via a mix of ov...
and its analogues are produced through a transnational chain: precursor chemicals and some finished product originate in , large-scale clandestine manufacturing has shifted to where transnational crim...
Illicit fentanyl production since 2020 has continued a multi-stage, transnational evolution: manufacturing increasingly centers on Mexican clandestine laboratories that use precursor chemicals and equ...
Mexican cartels act as the primary northbound integrators for cocaine and other drugs produced in South America, receiving maritime shipments from Colombia, Peru and Ecuador or coordinating Caribbean ...
Multiple strands of U.S. government reporting, academic analysis, and law‑enforcement assessments establish that Mexican transnational criminal organizations—most prominently the Sinaloa Cartel and th...
Mexico is the largest source country of finished illicit fentanyl and fentanyl analogues entering the United States in 2025, with Mexican transnational criminal organizations producing and trafficking...
From 2017–2020, U.S. and international reporting and government analyses show Mexican transnational criminal organizations (TCOs)—notably Sinaloa and CJNG—shifted into manufacturing fentanyl in Mexico...
Venezuelan criminal groups — described by U.S. authorities as “Cartel de los Soles” and linked to parts of the Venezuelan state — are alleged to provide routes, protection and facilitation for narcoti...
The claim that a specific “cartel family was allowed to live in the US during Trump’s presidency” is not supported by the documents provided; none of the reviewed items identify a cartel family formal...