Drog cairtel

**Drog cairtels** are creeminal organisations developit wi the primary purpose o promotin an controllin drog trokin operations. They range frae lowsely managit greements amang various drog trokers tae formalisit commercial enterprises. The term was applee'd when the lairgest trokin organisations reached a greement tae coordinate the production an distribution o cocaine. Syne that greement wis broken up, drug cairtels are no langer actually cairtels, but the term stuck an it is nou popularly uised tae refer tae ony creeminal narcotics relatit organisation, such as those in Colombie, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Trinidad an Tobago, Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Afghanistan, an Pakistan.  Some cairtels are establishin thairsels in the U.S.

Belaw is the basic structur o the drog cairtels in Mexico:

*Falcons (*Halcones*): Considered the "eyes an ears" o the streets, the 'falcons' are the lawest rank in ony drog cairtel. They are responsible for supervisin an reportin the activities o the militar an their rival groups.

*Hitmen (*Sicarios*): The airmit group athin the drog cairtel that are responsible for carryin oot assassinations, kidnappins, thefts, extortions, operatin protection rackets, an defendin their 'plaza' frae rival groups an the militar.

*Lieutenants (*Lugartenientes*): The seicont heichest position in the drog cairtel organisation that are responsible for supervisin the hitmen an falcons athin their awn territory. They are alloued tae carry oot laow-profile executions athoot permission frae their bosses.

*Drog lairds (*Capos*):  The heichest position in ony drog cairtel that are responsible for supervisin the entire drog industrie, appointin territorial leaders, makkin alliances, an plannin heich-profile executions.

It is wirth notin that there are ither operatin groups athin the drig cairtels. For example, the drog producers an suppleers, although no considered in the basic structur, are creetical operators o ony drog cairtel, alang wi the financers an money launderers. In addition, the airms suppleers operate in a completely different circle, an are technically no considered pairt o the cairtel’s logistics.

## Colombie
**Colombie Cairtels** is a generic term that uisually refers tae three, uisually rival, creeminal organisations involvit in Illegal drog trade in Colombe:
* Cali Cairtel
* Medellín Cairtel
* Norte del Valle Cairtel

It sometimes refers tae ither, lesser-kent creeminal organisations:
* Bogota Cairtel
* Caqueta Cairtel
* Llano Cairtel
* North Coast Cairtel
* The Office o Envigado

Ither organisations in Colombie involvit in drog trokin include:
*AUC
*Black Eagles
*ELN
*FARC
*Los Rastrojos
*ERPAC
*Oficina de Envigado
*Los Paisas
*Los Urabeños

## Mexico
**Mexican cairtels** (kent in Mexico as: **La Mafia**, **Mañosos**, **Narcotraficantes**, or simply as **Narcos** an aw) is a generic term that uisually refers tae several, uisually rival, creeminal organisations involvit in the Mexican Drog War:

*La Familia Cairtel
*Guwf Cairtel
*Juárez Cairtel
**La Línea
*Los Negros
*Los Zetas
*Sinaloa Cairtel
**Gente Nueva
*Sooth Paceefic Cairtel
*Tijuana Cairtel
*Los Caballeros Templarios
**La Resistencia

Several ither are lesser-kent creeminal organisations:

*Colima Cairtel
*Guadalajara Cairtel
*Milenio Cairtel
*Oaxaca Cairtel
*Sonora Cairtel
*Barrio Azteca
*Jalisco New Generation Cairtel
*Cártel Independiente de Acapulco
*La Nueva Administración
*Cártel del Centro
*Cártel de La Calle
*Cártel de la Sierra
*La Mano Con Ojos (gang)
*Artistas Asesinos
*Los Mexicles
*Los Chachos (gang)
*La Barredora (gang)
**El Comando Del Diablo (gang)
*La Oficina (gang)
*Los Texas (gang)

Ither organisations involvit (or hae been involvit) in the drog trade in Mexico. It is wirth mentionin, housomeivver, that this **does no** necessarily imply for the whole institutions mentioned belaw, juist a selectit few ahin it:
*Municipal polis forces in Mexico
*Federal polis forces in Mexico
*State pols forces in Mexico
*Mexican Airmy
*Mexican Navy
*U.S. Customs and Border Protection
*Mexico Ceety Internaitional Airport
*Club Tijuana (fitbaa)

## Unitit States
*Texas Syndicate
*La Mafia Mexicana
*Mara Salvatrucha
*Nuestra Familia
*Logan Heights Gang
*18th Street gang
*Sureños 13
*Norteños 14
*Mexikanemi
*American Mafia
*Aryan Brotherhood
*Black Guerilla Family

## Italy
*Ndrangheta
*Cosa Nostra
*Camorra Mafia
*La Stidda
*Sacra Corona Unita
*Mala del Brenta
*Basilischi Mafia
*Nuova Famiglia Salentina
*Rosa dei Venti
*Remo Lecce Libera
*Società foggiana
*Clan dei Casamonica

## Roushie
*Roushie mafia
*Chechen mafia
*Tambov Gang
*Thief in law
*Solntsevskaya Bratva

## Afghanistan
*Afridi Network
** Afghan drog trokers 
*** Noorzai Organisation
*** Khan cairtel

## Ither pairts o the warld
*United Wa State Airmy
*Dojin-kai
*Kyushu Seido-kai
*Bosnie mafia
*Bulgarie mafia
*Albanian mafia
*Corsican mafia
*Estonie mafia
*Erse mob
*Macedonie Mafia
*Montenegrin Mafia
*Serbie mafia
*Slovak mafia
*Triad
*Yakuza
*Shower Posse

## References

## Freemit airtins
*PBS. 2006. Frontline: Drug Wars.
*Worldpress.org. 2006. "Mexico: Drug Cartels a Growing Threat." Worldpress.org.
*Blood, Death, Drugs & Sex in Old Mexico" by Jose Gutierrez Aire: