Cartels & Criminal Organizations
12 entries in the Narcos compendium.
Cartels & Criminal Organizations — Era Chart
Los ZetasFrom hired guns to kings of terror, they turned the drug war into a battlefield.Cali CartelThe clean-cut businessmen who turned the drug trade into a global monopoly.Sinaloa CartelThe architects of modern smuggling who turned corruption into a weapon.Medellín CartelThe confederation that transformed cocaine into a large-scale transnational commodity.Gulf CartelThe gatekeepers of Matamoros who turned their own elite enforcers against them.Tijuana CartelA family bound by blood, fear, and the deadly business of border trafficking.Cartel de los SolesA name often confused, but absent from the Narcos narrative.Guadalajara CartelThe original federation that controlled Mexico's drug corridors in the 1980s.La Familia MichoacanaFrom vigilante origins to a cartel that produced methamphetamine and claimed divine justicJuárez CartelMasters of the air routes who turned the border into their personal highway.Norte del Valle CartelThe ruthless successors who filled the void left by the Cali Cartel.AUCA paramilitary juggernaut that weaponized anti-communism to build a drug empire.
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