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The cooperation between the U.S. and Mexico in addressing cartel violence, including law enforcement efforts and potential risks of unilateral action.
The generally runs from chemical suppliers and brokers in — who supply finished fentanyl and, increasingly after 2019, precursor chemicals — to Mexican transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) that...
Mexico has made patchwork, uneven progress: targeted arrests and seizures have disrupted some cartel leaders and logistics, but overall violence and cartel capacity have largely not diminished—cartels...
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...
Colombia, Peru and Bolivia all supply the coca leaf used to make cocaine, but traffickers route finished product toward the United States along distinct corridors shaped by geography, local state capa...
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...