The Contreras Cartel

== Contreras Cartel ==
Cartel de Contreras (CDC) is a formerly successful cartel, consisting of only Mexican ethnicity and recognized as one of the first cartels to control the majority of drug trafficking within American states. The Montalvo Cartel was an offspring of the Contreras Cartel, who in turn, was an offspring of the notorious Guadalajara Cartel.
It had great influence throughout the state of New Mexico, and it still has great influence in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Being on the other side of the border, the Villegas Organisation received big shipments of various drugs from the Contreras Cartel and distributed it throughout the state of New Mexico. In return, they would ship back citizen-grade weaponry to fuel the Mexican Drug War back home.
Along with the Contreras Cartel's help, the Montalvo Cartel of Los Santos profited heavily from selling drugs and guns. With the help of lieutenants, soldiers, and sicarios like Theodore Callabero, Xavier Zarate, Pablo Iglesias, Hernando Chikira, Thiago Escalante, and Raphael Andrades, the Montalvo Cartel quickly became feared and successful throughout Los Santos although they ultimately caught the eye of the Federal Task Force, and fell inactive.
== Early days ==
The daily schedule of the Contreras Cartel included various illegal activities, shadowed by their many legal fronts. These illegal activities consisted of the stereo-typical bulk trafficking of narcotics, human trafficking, arms trafficking, extortion, money laundry, kidnapping, murder and various other vicious crimes.
This string of consecutive vicious crimes had been put to a prompt stop after the fall of Benjamin Contreras' reign in 1989 after his conspicuous way of business had been compromised over the phone by the state police of New Mexico. The fall of Benjamin Contreras led to a period of chaos and anarchy within the organization. Eventually replaced by the successor Arturo Mendez whom enforced a more discrete way of doing business.
This enforced discretion led to a prolonged reign for Arturo Mendez, merely had been put to a full stop by the apprehension of Eduardo Echevarria, nowadays referred to as Lieutenant Rat. Ten members were revealed to broad daylight, leading to another period of severe chaos and disperse; including the departure of lieutenant Vincent Montalvo.
The Villegas Organisation in Albuquerque, New Mexico was known to be led by a lieutenant of the Contreras Cartel, Roberto Villegas, who formed a large drug smuggling operation between Mexico and the United States with the help of Sebastian Calvillo. 
At the beginning of 2008, the local DEA office started to build a case against Villegas, keeping him under constant pressure, which led to multiple arrests within the organization due to the missing leadership, causing the smuggling operation to be put to a complete stop. Multiple members were advised to flee to the state of San Andreas by the acting head of operations, Sebastian Calvillo.