The Sinaloa Cartel is a large and powerful drug trafficking transnational organized crime syndicate based in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico, that specializes in illegal drug trafficking, money laundering,
Sinaloa Cartel hierarchy in early 2008
Image 1: Drug tunnel corridors Tijuana airport/Otay Mesa
Image 2: Ejido Tampico comparison between 2000 and 2006
Image 3: Drug trafficking tunnel under the U.S.-Mexico border used by the Sinaloa Cartel from the Ejido Tampico
The Mexican drug war is an ongoing asymmetric armed conflict between the Mexican government and various drug trafficking syndicates. When the Mexican military intervened in 2006, the government's main
President Felipe Calderón
Mexican soldiers training in August 2010
Cooperation of the Mexican Navy in the Mexican Army transfer as well as the recognition of cultivation areas