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Map from: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-11080584
Excerpts from wiki on Sinaloa Cartel:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinaloa_Cartel
Pedro Avilés Pérez was a pioneer drug lord in the Mexican state of Sinaloa in the late 1960s...Second generation Sinaloan traffickers...By 2005, the Beltrán-Leyva brothers, who were formerly aligned with the Sinaloa Cartel, had come to dominate drug trafficking across the border with Arizona. By 2006, the Sinaloa Cartel had eliminated all competition across the 528 km of Arizona border, and it was suspected they had accomplished this by bribing state government officials.
The Sinaloa Cartel has a presence in 17 (Mexican) states...is primarily involved in the smuggling and distribution of Colombian cocaine, Mexican marijuana, methamphetamine and Mexican and Southeast Asian heroin...across the U.S. border to distribution cells in Arizona, California, Texas, Chicago and New York...Atlanta has been used as a major U.S. distribution center and accounting hub, and has brought ruthless violence to that area.
In January 2008 the cartel allegedly split into a number of warring factions, which is a major cause of the epidemic of drug violence Mexico has seen in the last year.[22] Murders by the cartel often involve beheadings or bodies dissolved in vats of acid.[23]
