Pacific Cartel

Maria S.

English Per.2

04/21/2011

Pacific Cartel

         People are facing many social problems and one of those is the growing Mexican drug cartels. The Sinaloa, best know as the Pacific Cartel, was founded in 1989 and still exists today.  This cartel began in 1906 and the 

first leader was Pedro Aviles Perez.  He is considered to be 

first generation of major Mexican drug smugglers of marijuana 

who marked the birth of larger scale Mexican drug trafficking.  

The second generation is commanded by Aviles Perez's

nephew Joaquin, known as “El Chapo Guzman “. 

        The second generation Sinaloa traffickers have famous members such 

as: Rafael Caro Quintero , Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo, Miguel 

Anguel Felix Gallardo. Federation is another name for this 

Cartel,which was originated from the coast  of Mexico . The 

Federation was partially splintered when the Beltran Leyva 

brothers broke apart from the Sinaloa cartel.The Sinaloa cartel is associated with the label “Golden Triangle” because the regions of Sinaloa, Durango and Chihuahua form a triangle.  This gang has seventeen states under its control, including: Guanajuato , Michoacan,Colima, Chiapas ,Guerrero ,Zacatecas, Baja California, Baja California Sur , Coahuila , Oaxaca, Queretaro. Hidalgo,Tlaxcala ,Puebla , Mexico city , Morelos. Also they operated in Central America , United States, Colombia and Argentina .

         This cartel has 2000 membership soldiers, their criminal 

activities include trafficking, money laundering , extortion , 

kidnapping , murder and arms trafficking. However they have 

allies and rivals .
       Their rivals are Los Zetas , Beltran Leyva 

cartel , Tijuana cartel, Juarez cartel. Crime is the most urgent concern in Mexico , as Mexican drug trafficking rings play a mayor role in the flow of cocaine, heroine , and marijuana . Drug trafficking and organized crime have also been a major source of violence in Mexico. In many of their fights  

for territory a lot of innocent people died.

         Mexican people are have faced this problem of drug cartels for 

many years. Maybe if they let the people buy whatever they want 

they can finish with this drug cartels problem.