Sinaloa Cartel

The Sinaloa Cartel (), also known as the Guzmán-Loera Organization, the Pacific Cartel,The latter due to the coast of Mexico from which it originated. the Federation and the Blood Alliance, is an international drug trafficking, money laundering, and organized crime group established during the late 1980s by Joaquín Guzmán Loera, Héctor Luis Palma Salazar, and Ismael Zambada García.

The cartel is in the city of Culiacán, Sinaloa, with operations in the Mexican states of Baja California, Durango, Sonora, and Chihuahua. The United States calls the Sinaloa Cartel "the most powerful drug trafficking organization in the world" and in 2011, the Los Angeles Times called it "Mexico's most powerful organized crime group." The group makes and sells opium, marijuana, heroin and cocaine. They also do human trafficking.

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