Founded in the late 1960s by Pedro Avilés Pérez in Sinaloa, the cartel initially focused on smuggling marijuana into the United States. Pérez is credited with pioneering the use of aircraft for drug smuggling, laying the groundwork for large-scale trafficking operations.

Mar 15, 2024 · The Sinaloa Cartel does not have a hierarchical structure. It is a network of various cells that cooperate with each other, while the cartel’s operations abroad, and even within Mexico, are generally outsourced to local partners. Currently, the Sinaloa Cartel has at least two leadership structures.

Mar 3, 2025 · Sinaloa cartel, international crime organization that is among the most-powerful drug-trafficking syndicates in the world. It is based in Culiacan, Sinaloa state, Mexico. At one time it was headed by Joaquin Guzman Loera, known as …

The Sinaloa Cartel and its leaders were reviously identified as Significant Foreign Narcotics Traffickers by the President Convicted on U.S. Drug Trafficking Charges; Returned to Colombia in 1995

The Sinaloa Cartel was more traditional and inserted itself into existing alliance networks. The CJNG, on the other hand, was more territorial — organized more hierarchically with a less dense network structure. Alternative hypotheses to explain these differing structures were considered.

Jun 16, 2024 · What is the hierarchy of the Sinaloa Cartel? The Sinaloa Cartel does not have a hierarchical structure like some other cartels. Instead, leaders like El Chapo, El Mayo, and El Azul maintain their own separate but cooperating organizations.

Dec 29, 2014 · Table 1 outlines the organizational hierarchy of the Sinaloa Cartel and its suspected associations with the Beltran-Levya brothers and Los Negros (Vinson 2009, 43). An InSight Crime report confirms that the leader of the Sinaloa cartel, El Chapo, had direct associations and partnerships with El Mayo, El Azul and the Beltran Leyva brothers.

The Sinaloa cartel, currently the most powerful drug cartel in the world, has survived brutal attacks by rival cartels and the capture of its most prominent leader, Chapo Guzman, because of this horizontal structure. Although the Sinaloa cartel originally had a vertical hierarchy, it was forced to change because of its rapid global expansion ...

The Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación’s (CJNG) alliance structure is top-down and hierarchical, while the Sinaloa Cartel is denser, particularly in the broader Tierra Caliente region.

Dec 23, 2010 · The Sinaloa Federation is one of the most powerful criminal organizations in Mexico, with tremendous influence throughout western Mexico and the northern border regions.