Word: sinaloa
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...Mexican politicians for failing to provide for the poor, making them turn to crime. He also reiterated the point - already conceded by the Mexican government - that large numbers of police and officials have worked with the drug cartels, debilitating attempts to rein in the narcotraficantes. (See pictures from Sinaloa, the front line of Mexico's drug...
...Juárez police captain for allegedly detaining people on the cartels' hit lists and then delivering them to their executions. And the rot goes even higher: in 2008, Calderón's former federal antidrug czar was arrested and charged with allegedly taking $450,000 to feed intelligence to the Sinaloa Cartel. (He denies...
...Began his career in the drug trade as an apprentice of "El Padrino" (Godfather) Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo, who once headed Mexico's most powerful drug cartel. Guzman founded his own cartel in 1980, quickly establishing posts in 17 Mexican states. Sinaloa, his organization, takes its name from a Mexican state along the Pacific coast long known as a hotbed for drug trafficking. After Gallardo's arrest in 1989, Guzman inherited some of his territory...
...very agile and, of the kingpins, is the one who moves around the least." - Ismael Bojorquez, editor of the newspaper Riodoce in Culiacan, the capital of Sinaloa (Los Angeles Times...
...cartel leaders since 2001 (Los Angeles Times, July 5, 2005) "People see Chapo Guzman as the social bandit, as a Robin Hood. He fixes up the towns and puts lights in the cemetery. He is part of Sinaloan folklore." - Victor Hugo Aguilar, a professor at the Autonomous University of Sinaloa, on Guzman's influence over the region's people and culture (Chicago Tribune, July...