El Chapo/Sinaloa Cartel 2013 Updates - Page 3

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10/25/2013 -- U.S. sham corporations aid drug lords

"Last winter, the Chicago Crime Commission and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration named Mexican billionaire Guzman Loera the city's 'Public Enemy No. 1.' Also known as 'Shorty,' Guzman heads the world's largest narcotics operation, the infamous Sinaloa cartel, and allegedly pushes 1,500 to 2,000 kilograms of cocaine through Chicago each month.

We believe that the solution to ending Guzman's reign of terror is to put the cartel he leads out of business by stopping its ability to move money. Just as they did with Capone, law enforcement must be able to track the illicit money."

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10/23/2013 -- Anabel Hernández: Mexico's new narco order

"Renowned Mexican investigative journalist Anabel Hernández, author of Narcoland: The Mexican Drug Lords and Their Godfathers, has been receiving police protection since her reportage outed top figures in the country's security apparatus as drug cartel collaborators—resulting in threats on her life.

'This man exists because the federal government of Mexico wants him to,' Hernández said of Sinaloa Cartel kingpin  Joaquin Guzman AKA 'El Chapo'—officially the country's top fugitive. Hernández charged that El Chapo was allowed to escape from prison by the Mexican federal government 2001 and has been protected by the government ever since."

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10/19/2013 -- Guatemala Arrests Suspected Allies of Mexican Drug Cartel

"Two Guatemalans suspected of working for Mexico’s powerful Sinaloa drug cartel were arrested Friday in the northern province of Peten, a spokesman for Guatemala’s national police said."

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10/18/2013 -- M-12 Detained In Juarez Safehouse

"The brother of 'El Mayito' a notorious member of the Sinaloa Drug Cártel has been arrested in a safehouse in Juarez.

Jose Fidel Núñez meza is the brother of Mario Nuñez Meza, 'M-10', 'El Mayito' and brother of Amado, 'M-11'."

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10/11/2013 -- Los Zetas smuggles drugs to Europe through West Africa

"Los Zetas and the Sinaloa Cartel are using Atlantic Ocean drug routes to West Africa with increasing frequency, according to authorities.

Once organized crime groups have smuggled the narcotics – cocaine, marijuana, heroin and synthetic drugs – into West Africa, they transport them, often in vehicles or small airplanes, to Europe."

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10/07/2013 -- Mexico busts more Sinaloa Cartel biggies — but still not El Chapo

"Three men allegedly linked to Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel, accused of conspiring to distribute a thousand kilograms of cocaine in the US and Europe, face trial in a federal court in Concord, New Hampshire, after being extradited from Spain. According to network Univisión, the accused were apprehended in the Spanish port of Algeciras in August 2012. One defendant, Manuel Jesús Gutiérrez Guzmán, has been identified as a cousin of Joaquin Guzman AKA 'El Chapo'—the Sinaloa Cartel's notorious fugitive kingpin. Another, Rafael Humberto Celaya Valenzuela, was a candidate for public office in San Luis Río Colorado, Sonora, with Mexico's ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)."

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10/01/2013 -- Narcoland: Journalist Braves Death Threats to Reveal Ties Between Mexican Government & Drug Cartels

"Anabel Hernández has been described as one of the most courageous journalists in Mexico. In 2010, she published a groundbreaking book linking top Mexican governmental officials to the world's most powerful drug cartels. She received so many death threats that the National Human Rights Commission assigned her two full-time bodyguards. Despite the danger, she continued to report. In 2012, she received the Golden Pen of Freedom award from the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers. Her own father was kidnapped and murdered 13 years ago. Her book on the Mexican drug wars, 'Narcoland: The Mexican Drug Lords And Their Godfathers,' has just been translated into English. 'What I found in official documents and by testimonies is that the secretary of public security, Genaro Garcia Luna, was the most powerful chief of police in the government of Felipe Calderon. He was really involved with the drug cartels, with the Sinaloa cartel, he was in the payroll as the same, as the most important chief of the police of the federal police,' Hernández said. 'So these guys not just protect the Sinaloa cartel, they also help them traffic drugs and money in the most important airports in Mexico.' "

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09/30/2013 -- U.S. Department of the Treasury : Treasury Expands Sanctions Against Family Members of Esparragoza Moreno

"The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) today announced the designation of two family members and one entity linked to Juan Jose Esparragoza Moreno (a.k.a. El Azul), a leader of Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel.  Today's action, pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (Kingpin Act), generally prohibits U.S. persons from conducting financial or commercial transactions with these designees and also freezes any assets they may have under U.S. jurisdiction."

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09/30/2013 -- The Current Status of the Various Drug Cartels in Mexico

"It is tempting to separate Mexico's drug cartels into six hierarchical groups, each competing for trafficking turf. The reality, however, is that the Sinaloa Federation, the Gulf Cartel, the Tijuana Cartel, the Juarez Cartel, Los Zetas and La Familia, not to mention several new offshoot organizations, are fluid, dynamic, for-profit syndicates that sometimes operate under the umbrella of what are effectively conglomerates but more often than not operate as independent, smaller-scale franchises.

This article examines the current state of the Sinaloa Federation, Los Zetas, and other Mexican cartels. It finds that due to law enforcement pressure in recent years, Mexico's drug trafficking organizations have increasingly splintered, and may well end up consolidated under the influence of the last cartel standing. That cartel would likely be the Sinaloa Federation, which remains the most powerful cartel in Mexico today.

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09/20/2013 -- Why Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel Loves Selling Drugs in Chicago

"Never heard of the Sinaloa cartel? If you’re in law enforcement, you certainly can’t say the same. Last February, the Chicago Crime Commission branded Sinaloa’s leader, the elusive and fearsome Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán Loera, Public Enemy No. 1—a distinction last held by Al Capone.

'What Al Capone was to beer and whiskey, Guzmán is to narcotics,' Art Bilek, the commission’s executive vice president, said at the time. Except, Bilek added, Guzmán 'is clearly more dangerous than Al Capone was at his height.' (Zambada is plenty dangerous, too: Prosecutors say he commanded logistics and security for the cartel, including assassinations. He is suspected in a number of slayings, including the murders of government officials.)

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