Narco Traficantes / Drug Cartels

The Mexican Drug Cartels are one of the most feared people in mexico they are one of the biggest reasons of people not wanting to fly internationally to mexico anymore. One of the most wanted people in the world in the 4th spot is Joaquin Archivardo Guzman Loera also known as "El Chapo Guzman". There is another man by the name of Edgar Valdez also known as "La Barbie" which was captured in late October in 2010 for the murders of many people becuase of his drug cartel and the many kdnapps and drup he exported in Mexico and the United States. These are examples of Drug lords for the drug cartels and the many killings in mexico. This last year there was a way higher killing rate in mexico caused of the drug cartels then in Iraq. The ratings in Mexico was 507,288 dead, and in the Iraq war there was as much as 27,094 dead.

La Familia Michoacana is based in Michoacán. It was formerly allied to the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas, but La Familia has now split off and became an independent organization. In February 2010, La Familia forged an alliance with the Gulf Cartel against Los Zetas and Beltrán Leyva Cartel.

The Gulf Cartel hired a group of corrupt former elite military soldiers now known as Los Zetas, who began operations as a private army for the cartel. The Zetas have been instrumental in the Gulf Cartel’s domination of the drug trade in much of Mexico and have fought to maintain the cartel’s influence in northern cities following the arrest of Osiel Cardenas. Los Zetas made a deal with ex-Sinaloa cartel commanders, the Beltrán-Leyva brothers and since February 2010 Los Zetas became rivals of their former employer/partner, the Gulf Cartel.

The Sinaloa Cartel began to contest the Gulf Cartel’s domination of the coveted southwest Texas corridor following the arrest of Gulf Cartel leader Osiel Cárdenas in March 2003. The "Federation" was the result of a 2006 accord between several groups located in the Pacific state of Sinaloa. The cartel is led by Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, Mexico's most-wanted drug trafficker and whose estimated net worth of US$1 billion makes him the 701st richest man in the world, according to Forbes Magazine. In February 2010, new alliances were formed against Los Zetas and Beltran Leyva Cartel. As of May 2010, numerous reports by Mexican and US media claimed that Sinaloa had infiltrated the Mexican federal government and military, and colluded with it to destroy the other cartels. The Colima Cartel, Sonora Cartel and Milenio Cartel are now branches of the Sinaloa Cartel