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Pablo Escobar, wearing a light-colored jacket and collared shirt, looks slightly to the side in a close-up portrait. Joaquin El Chapo Guzman, in a white shirt, is escorted by two masked Mexican marines in camouflage uniforms and black vests after his capture. Map of Mexico showing the areas of influence of major drug cartels as of 2009, with different regions shaded to represent the Sinaloa Cartel, La Familia Cartel, Beltran-Leyva Cartel, Arellano-Felix Organization, Vicente Carrillo Fuentes Organization, and Gulf/Los Zetas Cartel. Key cities such as Tijuana, Ciudad Juarez, Monterrey, Culiacan, Guadalajara, Morelia, Mexico City, Veracruz, and Acapulco are marked within these cartel territories.

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Modified link of Web site: European Parliament - Drug Cartels and their Links with European Organised Crime (PDF). Apr 14, 2026
Add new Web site: Indiana Unversity Pressbooks - Perspectives on Black Markets v. 4 - Corruption, Laundering, and Influence: a Mexican Drug Cartel’s Recipe for Success. Oct 18, 2025
Add new Web site: Council on Foreign Relations - Mexico’s Long War: Drugs, Crime, and the Cartels. May 09, 2025
Add new Web site: Academia - Searchable talk: The linguistic functions of hashtags (PDF). Jan 24, 2025
Add new Web site: Federation of American Scientists - Mexico's Drug Cartels. Nov 12, 2024
Add new Web site: European Parliament - Drug Cartels and their Links with European Organised Crime (PDF). May 22, 2024
Add new Web site: Find Law - Drug Cartels and Organized Crime. Jun 08, 2017
New article added. May 06, 2016
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