Sinaloa Cartel
The ongoing Sinaloa Cartel War in the western Mexican state of Sinaloa continues. It’s nearing its one-year anniversary, having begun on September 9th, 2024. For the entire article click here. Article by Allan Wall, published August 18th, 2025, on Mexico News Report.
Ovidio Guzman, son of El Chapo Guzman and a leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, was captured in Mexico in 2023 and extradited to the United States later that year. In July of 2025, Ovidio has made a plea bargain with the court and pleaded guilty. For the entire article, click here. Article by Allan Wall, […]
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Who are the Chapitos? The Chapitos are four sons of El Chapo, a former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel. For the entire article, click here. Article by Allan Wall, published July 15th, 2025, on Mexico News Report.
On June 9th, 2025, the U.S. government sanctioned the Chapitos faction of the Sinaloa Cartel and put out 10 million dollar bounties on each of two brothers (sons of the imprisoned El Chapo Guzman) running the cartel. For the entire article, click here. Article by Allan Wall, published June 15th, 2025, on Mexico News Report.
According to a recent English-language report from Spain’s El País, the Chapitos faction is on its way out. Besides the pressure from the El Mayo faction, the Chapitos are being hit hard by both the Mexican and U.S. government. The Trump administration is using a carrot and stick approach to reduce the cartel. And Trump’s tariff pressure on Mexico gives the […]
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (D.E.A.) has released its 2025 National Drug Threat Assessment, and it paints a grim picture of the Mexican cartel threat. For the entire article, click here. Article by Allan Wall, published May 26th, 2025, on Mexico News Report.
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Since last September, there has been a vicious struggle between two factions of the Sinaloa Cartel, which however has not stopped its lucrative business of exporting drugs to the United States. The intra-cartel war pits The violence pits one faction, led by the son of “El Mayo” Zambada against the Chapitos, sons of “El Chapo” Guzman. […]
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The ongoing war between two factions of the Sinaloa cartel, being fought in Mexico’s Sinaloa state, broke out last September 9th and continues. As of May 5th the death toll in the conflict had passed 1,2000 dead, with 1,400 missing. For the entire article, click here. Article by Allan Wall, published May 12th, 2025 on […]
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There’s been a firestorm in the media over a recent CNN interview with a Sinaloa Cartel gangster. For the entire article, click here. Article by Allan Wall, published May 7th, 2025, on Mexico News Report.
Mexican and Chinese criminals have teamed up to form a new criminal organization – the “Dragon Cartel”, which is moving the “cocaine of the sea” (the swim bladder of the endangered totoaba fish) through Vancouver and other Canadian ports in exchange for fentanyl precursor chemicals. For the entire article, click here. Article by Allan Wall, […]