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Saturday, October 7, 2017

Following El Chapo's extradition: The power of the Sinaloa Cartel diminishes by half

chivis martinez for borderland beat republished from animal politico 

With El Chapo having been arrested and extradited, the Sinaloa cartel reduces its presence in Mexico.   Data from the PGR reveals that the activity of that organization has decreased in the country.

The cartel has gone from having a presence in eleven states, and now only operate  in seven and with less criminal cells in operation.

The presence of the Sinaloa Cartel in the states of the country has been on the decline since the extradition to the United States of its leader, Joaquin El Chapo Guzman, last January.

In 2017, El Chapo’s organization lost its presence in the Mexican Pacific area, in states such as Colima, Nayarit and Jalisco, where it has surrendered territory to the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG).

The Sinaloa organization has also ceased operations in the Yucatan peninsula, according to information from the Attorney General's Office (PGR) regarding criminal organizations with operations in the country.


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Where the Sinaloa cartel is still active is in northwest Mexico with presence in Chihuahua, Sonora, Durango, Coahuila, Baja California, Baja California Sur and Sonora.


Sinaloa Cartel's activity using criminal cells also declined: since 2015 data revealed that El Chapo operated with up to ten criminal groups, but in the first four months of this year there are only records that the cartel has a relationship with seven cells: Los Artistas Asesinos, Gente Nueva, Los Cabrera, el Cártel del Poniente; and bands associated with El Aquiles, El Tigre and Del 28.

Joaquin Guzman Loera was extradited to the United States on January 19, 2017 and is detained at the Metropolitan Detention Center, a federal prison in New York City.

Prosecutors in charge of the case argue that there is sufficient evidence to prosecute the capo in the United States for at least 17 separate crimes including money laundering, criminal conduct, and conspiracy to produce and distribute cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin and marijuana; as well as the use of firearms for the commission of drug offenses.



The extradition of the capo took place after three arrests and two escapes of maximum security prisons, in 2001 and 2015.

Federal officials have said that the extradition of the Chapo caused a reorganization in the leadership of the Sinaloa cartel; as well as the advance of other criminal organizations such as the CJNG which, as the official data shows, is already the criminal group having greatest presence in the country.

The power of the Sinaloa Cartel diminishes by half

The latest official records show, for the first time in 40 years, that the Sinaloa Cartel loses its presence in the country.

But before his extradition to the United States, Joaquin El Chapo Guzman led the most powerful criminal organization, which managed to extend its influence to 24 of the country's 32 entities. So far, no other organization has operated in so many states and has long resisted the onslaught of the federal government to weaken it.


With El Chapo Guzman, the Sinaloa Cartel was the first criminal organization to successfully participate and lead the trafficking of four drugs: marijuana, cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine.

NarcoData has recorded the progress of the Sinaloa Cartel in the country since its inception in the 1980s.

In the beginning of the term of Enrique Peña Nieto, Sinaloa was the organization with more presence in the country but according to data of PGR, it has lost almost half of its area of ​​influence yielding ground in the western states of the country.

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  1. Ya i read on several mexican sites its the opposite that they grew with 2-3 more cells now apart of the Cartel Del Pacifico.

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    1. More cells do not mean more power. Could mean more people are becoming independent of CDS yet like to hide under their protection like all those sureno gangs that while in Cali can claim different names and fight amongst each other but in prison are ruled by one head gang. They also call themselves surenos outside of Cali trying to intimidate others by them saying they got the backing of this same prison gang. They all use one big name in what appears to be an act of desperation to get noticed because by themselves they are weak!

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    2. Don't confuse cells with influence and power. Not the same thing.

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    3. Ya well "several" sites copied excelsior. excelsior is not reliable, nor do they use data and hard fact. I like La Silla Rota and Animal Politico they rely on hard data, not word on the street.

      If cells meant power LFM and CT would be the most powerful.

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    4. The new cancerous cells of hungry narco wannabes metastasizing from cjng alias las jaliskas may have taken and taken, but their turn at the helm is about to end, whoever is the new presidente will surely chose his own team of drug traffickers, unless MAO osorio chón choses to continue the relationship with Las Jaliskas, but they will never finish CDS, too much for one big fat fish...
      If MAO wins somehow, how about some russian help? Or chinese, after all MAO is a brotha, and all that meth did not come home to mexico alone, unannounced, or empty handed...

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  2. SINALOA CARTEL is on R&R and working the smart way.

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    1. Or it coukd have just weakend?

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    2. Seeing alot of ig pages with juniors chilling out con la banda en la playa.could b on r&r

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    3. These Jr's are milenials they like to chill more than work as long as there's enough money they will not break a sweat

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    4. @6:14 so the DEA and even CIA here in the states do NOT know the wearabouts of Chapos kids yet a person like you have them on IG and know where they are on a concistent basis.
      This leads to 2 conclusions only.
      First is U.S. government was and is full of shit when they say that they target all cartels equally to so call stem the flow of drugs into the U.S. - that they never favored CDS cartel.
      Two: you are full of shit for saying that.
      Let's see if their is a processional authoritive figure from the states that can explain this situation with CDS for us, hopefully not some random nuthugger???

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  3. The reason is because Mencho split from cds... Now competing with cds

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    1. 2:29 Sinaloa the greatest cartel in the world is just allowing the Jaliskas some rope to hang themselves, why fight these hot shot newcomers and their Madrota principal EPN when they have one year to go? Even el pinchi carretero could ask that,
      CDS has been in action since miguel angel felix gallardo and co murdered his Godfather Don Pedro Avilés and moved to guadalajara for benefit of making fuck ups with the DEA that cost them 3p years in prison, and the CDS still has diretivos all over the place, like la chapa chila, just la mencha a Jaliska is from michuakkkan.

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    2. Same thing that caf did wen fox got into power let others take the spot light

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    3. 6:22 "la chachalaca" took power in 2000, do you mean the arellanuses allowed La Chapa to escape to take over for them?
      After all salinas put the cartel de guadalajara in prison and la Neta zedillo loved to have his own toys in prison inrregardless of guilt, luckily La Chachalaca Fox was more progresista, he now pushes to legalize grifa, he don't wanna be put in prison too.

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  5. With all the money they make with the states they control they don't need more they have become smarter and wiser keep low profile work produce sell get money

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    1. Its kinda hard for sinaloenses and michoacanos to keep low its not in there nature

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    2. Don't put those copy cats michoacacas in the same sentence as Sinaloa

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    3. Yea don’t put those snitchaloas in the same sentence as michoacanos, we don’t like rats

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    4. Funny cuz cjng + ctng where all under the control of a sinaloense. Don't say never because Los arellano felix (caf) are from culiacan. El Mencho was once a part of chapos team as well.

      Los Viagras de Michoacan just made a truce with Mayo. Sinaloa is still operating in port of colima with the help of el 19.

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    5. 11:36 now some sinaloas work for a michoacano called Mencho.. Crazy how things turn out

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  6. I can see the effectiveness of chopping the head of the snake. Where it pertains to the dismantlement of any such organization.
    However, I am somewhat skeptical as being such a blow towards a drug cartel. Since the drug operations are run by a corporation of elite inconspicuous individuals ( government / political powers).
    The drugs are continuous and never ending.
    Along with the fortunes. The poster board face was only the tail of the snake. The head of the snake still exists!

    E42

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    1. There are many snakes around my friend. Nowhere does it say in this article that CDS is the only cartel left in Mexico. Smaller snakes can be just as deadly - effective at buying political power and influence as to bring drugs into the U.S.

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    2. Agreed...they had to get rid of the social media bragging, and spreading too thin....The head of the snake is alive and well..all companies must evolve, and adapt..CDS still has the infastructure. I think they're reducing their profile in retail sales in Mexico. Let the others have that. Good PR...Lay low and pay your Piso..

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  7. I am picking up a lot of chatter within cartel del golfo about their association with chapo. It has not come to an end

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    1. The metros worked with mayo and the chapitos, metros would move the drogas to north east mex and get them into texas. Theyre main liason was la muneca she would set pick up an drop offs.

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    2. 11:37 osi hired his own death squads that becameos zetas because he got scared that people advised his ass that El Chapo was coming,
      so, when Did the golfas allied with CDS?

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  8. @chivis why did they send him to NYC instead of Chicago if he was public enemy #1 in the chi

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    1. Why NY is a question many ask. Why not, California, Texas or Chicago....

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    2. NY is the farthest place from his area of influence hence the safest to prevent his escape. Chi town is by all acounts Chapo friendly last I, heard.

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    3. NY had a lot of interest in getting La chapa to keep him silent, they did the same to Fat Tony Salerno and John Gotti to not pay them for services rendered, the usual pay some select employers chose to give the people that trust them, bad thing the niuyorrican and niu jeysays mobsters could not sue in court, they trusted somebody even worse than the Red Mafiya and La Chapa did the same, too many Latin Kings in Niu Yoark

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    4. New York is the highest profile of the bunch, and the US government is committed to embarrassing Chapo and making his punishment as public as anything. USA couldn't care less where Chapo has people or doesn't have people in the USA, he could have been tried in San Diego across from TJ and still ZERO chance he could escape. This isn't Mexico, he's in the USA with the Feds, these are the big boys.

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    5. Because NY has a track record of prosecuting these types of cases.

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    6. New York highest profile, most money and resources etc etc they really want to fry him

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    7. I think all of you above are correct in your opinions. NY has the most money, so best Prosecutors, and infastructure to handle the media freight train that is El Chapo...my 2 cents.

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  9. Artistas and Tigre and GN are at least three of the groups fighting for Chihuahua against La Linea aka Juarez cartel and Aztecas. They really haven't acomplished much against La Linea since Chapos arrest no matter what nutthuggers from them say. These maps should be redrawn however into showing only pockets of CDS cells across Chihuahua state like GN in the south of it controlling perhaps 5 or 6 small towns there. A few GN cells and Artistas Asesinos gang in Juarez controlling perhaps the Valley and a small part of the eastside of Juarez. Tigres people to the west of the state. juarez still in Ojinaga and across most of the remainder of the state with Aztecas in Chihuahua and cd Juarez at the very least.

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    1. You should be nominated for drug zar. Cds materials are going through juarez into the U.S. then to the east cost. Explain that.

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    2. CDS are going thru the outskirts of Juarez into the U.S. That place counts as the El Paso Juarez drug corridor according to DEA and even Border patrol. Some drugs from CDS do managed to go thru the international bridges but not many of those drugs get stashed in the city of Juarez proper. Like I, said though also, Artistas as well as GN still remain in Juarez and possibly even Mexicles that help get those drugs from Juarez into the U.S.
      Linea has a hard time eliminating competition when all the heat is on them such as like a previous article here wrote about el 80 leader of La Linea being wanted by Mexican authorities. Now that Chapo is captured nobody ever hears of any other big capo of theirs such as MZ and Chapos kids being wanted by any authorities including the U.S. authorities. Explain that one to me?

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    3. El menchito is in prison garranteeing the good behaviour of la Mencha, loayitos and vicente zambada niebla and la chapa are doing the same, having th tied up like little sheep allows the narco-governments on the US and mexico and keeps these traitors from piggh backing their own drugs and robbing half of the market to build themselves their own fortunes.
      They seem to have done the same thing to amado carrillo fuentes who said:
      "son cbingaderas! Se va a trabajar cuando yo diga!"
      But of course, the beltranuses, el mayo, la chapa, el azul, el güero palma, nacho coronel, and others were not going to lissen,

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    4. @8:34 there are many US indictments against Mayo, and the Chapitos.....Mayo and Mencho are the most wanted men in Mexico, and US...I believe there is more complicity toward Mayo because of his influence, and perceived restraint. This info is allot of false news to bring more attention to stopping the even more bloody CJNG. The money has to keep flowing, So whoever the govs decide can keep going...the others will be dismantled and business absorbed. Who's it gonna be?

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    5. 8:34 the DEA and the CIA sure know where drugs are passing and "where they are not", I absolutely believe you,
      and sure enough, mexican cartels are lording it all through Washington DC GAO.

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    6. @9:35 well according to some people commenting here DEA and CIA should be able to find the Chapitos easily just by using social media places like IG and possibly even FB. Yet the. Chapitos have not been arrested. Why is that so?

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    7. @2:51 DEA and CIA are full of shit! If they know where the drugs arw comming from, why haven't they stopped them from entering in the first place? They are probably helping CDS to begin with. I, know DEA agents that have at least a 200 grand home and a few others that they own. All this on government salary? Give me a break!
      Only hope BB publishes this. I, won't name names either because it's a risk for yours truly.

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    8. @6:23... exactly...why? Cuz El Senor, is still alive, and has his cards to play....And Mayo is Mayo....he's well insulated..Flacco, Chapitos, and Vicente will keep the biz alive...they are learning well.

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  10. Having less heat is better for CDS and the government (less pressure to capture leaders). CJNG is and will become the target for all involved.

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  11. Cjng controls the ports in veracruz, colima and is trying to get Michoacan. They have Tijuana to cross vtheir stuff and took a few of cds plazas. Cds is older and cjng is not as old but definitively a competition with both being the 2 most powerfull cartels in Mexico but who knows who will remain in that spot.

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    1. 16 18 and 19 are in colima. Gente del mayo. It's said Los Viagras made a pact with Mayo.

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    2. Cds are trying to take colima but not working. Viagras are not that big just local mini cartel in tierra caliente and they dont want cjng to take over that area so asked cds for help but cjng is already there with help from CT against la nueva familia. Viagras have taken many hits with one santana killed and so has CT with leaders killed as well. War zone going on in Michoacan for control. Very interesting

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    3. 11:05 Let La Puta Tuta go!
      I hope he makes videos of all the dick sinking around there, so nobody denies it happened later.

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    4. 11:05 only a portion of CT is with CJNG the other part under the command of El Gallito are allied with los Viagras and la nueva familia, also los Viagras do have influence in colima. In colima and michoacan its just one big alliance between los viagras, la nueva familia, la familia michoacana and Caballeros Templarios with some support of CDS against Mencho. Mencho seems to have many groups against him like CDG and Old school zetas in Veracruz and BLO in nayarit.

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  12. His spoiled kids made a mess of things.

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    1. No they didn't

      A lot of people turned on them after there father went don't not there fault

      Just like in the Godfather

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    2. Sinaloenses are like Joey Zasa of the Godfather part III

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    3. Sinalenses are the Godfather

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    4. @11AM the Godfathers of Snitching and Bragging for sure!

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    5. Michoacán where Italians came to mix with Tarascos/Purepecha the elite of the native americans who were the only ones who were not conquered by the Spaniards but chose to mix instead there is even a place called Nueva Italia founded by an Italian family.

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    6. 3:30 and mix they did, of course, king emperor Calzonsin even went teet the conquistadores shoe less and sin clazones, that man was a hoe, worse than Doña Marina La Malinche, of course, coming from the land of the "Monarch Mariposonas" with wings bigger than Walter Mercado's you could not expect any different, luckily Las Jaliskas are their neighbor cousins.

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  13. Even gente nueva doesnt want to be part of that chapitos faction cds

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    1. GN among other cells finally realized that CDS although being the wealthiest cartel in Mexico pays their members peanuts. Onky the Chapo and Zambada clans make the biggest fortunes. Their is also because of this no real opportunity to "move up the corporate ladder" if you will with these dynasties in the way for they rule of course with an iron fist like all dynasties in past history. This means that although thousands of foot soldiers work for CDS not even a few dozen might get to reap the tremendous amount of profit/money this cartel makes. 90 percent of them will only be cannon fodder and 9 percent more will be just mules while the 1 percent will enjoy the riches!!!

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    2. GN are still part of cds. Don't believe everything you read. The manta was left by blo to make a conflict between cds (chapos kids) and GN.

      Get facts from people who are in the org. not by hearsay.

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  14. When the statistics come from the PGR they are unreliable and extremly biased. Cds has and will continue to have the most reliable infrastructure to produce and deliver. Cds has control of the the most profitable routes into the U.S., Europe and Asia so what if two northern Mexico states are being disputed by the other"cartels"

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  15. The price of coke still the same. The sinaloa cartel is smaller just cuss the wing belonging to that one guy was destroyed when he started a revolt withing the cartel. And the cartel has taken hits but chapos detention dont mean shit because you still have el mayo the best that ever done it in mexico as head. Chapos sons will fill the void left by the fatherand the business continues. Yes they also have to fight with el menchos ppl and with remnants of the beltran cartel but what cartel isnt.

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  16. The price of coke is still the same as when??? Coke was around 20k a key when the twins were around. Now a key is close to 40- 35 if your close to someone and lucky

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    1. Never thought about that but you got a point.

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    2. Someone is ripping you off my friend

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    3. Maybe in tje east coast not the west coast

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    4. Lol yep someone pay too much

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    5. My guy said he gets his yay for 28/brick and boy for 59 if only getting 1... more than that and price drops to 55.. this is in southest

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    6. Baking soda is still a cool $1.00 US dollar a pound, but you could just steal it, security guards never watch that shit.
      They sure don't get away from the steaks.
      I haven't had me any beef for the last 6 months
      -El Sol Perdido

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  17. @8:09 this article says otherwise.Your just stating opinions not credible.

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  18. Sinaloa nuthuggers will say Sinaloa is winning

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  19. "Having presence" and "controlling territory" are two different things. Sinaloa still has presence in Colima, Jalisco, EdoMex, and many others, but they control that territory. CJNG has presence in the north, but they don't control it.

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    1. You got it backwards lol cds does NOT control colima and especially NOT Jalisco. Cds might be around that state but FAR from controlling it

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  20. Cheerleaders won´t like this article.

    All the cartels come to an end sooner or later, happened to Escobar, Rodriguez bros, Norte del Valle, Carrillos , beltranes and arellanos. and it will happen to sinaloa as it stands now, but don´t worry junkies, the coke will keep flowing to your noses via new players.

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    1. My boy you are as dumb as a stump you can not get rid of Sinaloa as a state or a cartel, there is to much money and families with power that you can't even begin to wrap your head around.

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  21. legend. thank you.

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  22. cjng kicking ass all the way up to baja

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  23. The biggest and most powerful cartel is CJNG. They have direct ties with La M mexican mafia in California. The mexican mafia has its foot soilders the surenos 13 sell the drugs.

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    1. eMe has no respect for sinaloenses prefers to do business with Michoacanos. LA Times even did an article about it saying how sinaloenses are not as feared as Michoacanos even Nortenos who split from eMe also mostly do business with Michoacanos. Its funny how lames think CJNG is Jaliskios when its a fact its was formed by Michoacanos just because its based out of Jalisco. Nacho Coronel was not the King of Crystal thats bullshit. Michoacanos have been cooking since way before and growing every drug including coke because they can on very fertile land and yes it is very possible to grow coca plants there.

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    2. You must be a Michoacáno 11:40 the Bay Area and Oakland In general has a bunch of Sinaloans moving wieght in and around the Northern Cali. Sinaloa is a state with world wide influence whether you like it or not Sinaloa will always run the drug game AFO, Carrillo Fuentes, BLO all chinolas all have ran plazas in other states. You Michoacános will always be 2nd place why? Because your state has no structure, and your capos rape and pillage it to busy trying to eat the world is when the world already showed you how small you really are. No one respect Sinaloa huh? Because of chapo? Is he the only Sinaloan to do it? No, ask Ramon Arellano if the barrio Logan didn't respect Chinola, ask Arturo B. If ms13 didn't respect him, ask Mochomo if they don't respect him in the Feds. You sound bitter and like a real McAsshole, your own friends would work with the Chinolas if it made them rich. Acting like you don't ride around listening to Sinaloa corridos and yelling fierro ala Verga drinking Tecate light. Boy you oughta quit 🤣😂

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    3. 11:40 most hardcoredest michoacano of all time since don cheto.

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    4. 1140 nomames pareses todo un sinaloense con todo esa fatansia..7:34 Trippn typical buchon alucin(sinaloa) u proubly never been there or aint eben from cali.the bay and northern cali has always been mich cats running it weather u like it or not the sntiches kind of have l.a. on lock but not much cuase jal y mich are deep there too.

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    5. Cds has a truce with Raymond aka "Shrimp Boy" from San Francisco (now locked up for R.E.C.O) same Chinese crew from LA and Long Beach. They also have one with Simon and the Russians.
      They also have one with nor-cal 81'ers.

      michoacanos hide like packed gophers in Redwood City Especially middlefield area living like packed sardines. jaliscos are in daly city hiding like wet cats under tables.

      Sad part about it I am not mexican I am Peruvian where Sinaloa still has a strong structure.

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    6. You know your shit lol 6:21 but the Sinaloans are all around there from San José to San Francisco. You are also right the michoacanos no salen de Redwood City. 9:28 Sinaloans are all over San Mateo my boy trust me I know I lived there, they have a strong presence in Hayward, Oakland as well look at all the sinaloan restaurant popping up in the Bay they are a front for money laundering how about the one that popped up in Redwood City bet you my bottem dollar the Michoacános go there eat mariscos and drink Tecate light lol. You make me laugh 9:28 think the Michoacáns run shit before y'all used to take orders for the golfos and they still mange to keep y'all outta Tamps you don't know shit at all just cus your daddy and his friends sold a few grams don't make them big time. I seen the big times and they were all Sinaloans splitting cheese all over the bay. The crazy part is that the sinaloans in the bay are mostly from southern Sinaloa all from the ranchos outside of Mazatlán, la quebrada, cabazan, coyotitan and most of those cats were independent a few from Culiacán and badiraguato but mostly all chinolas. I ain't gotta be a Sinaloa to tell you what's what my boy the old school sinaloans left their mark in the drug game and the world knows it. You Michoacános just mad no one respects you. Period no comma

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    7. Im from Northern California all the weights are being pushed are mostly (mich, Jal) people Few sinaloas are there too

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    8. Portland, Seattle, Tacoma, Spokane...heavy Sinaloa..

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  24. Quienes son Del 28?

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  25. The prison gangs control st level in the southwest tx to Cali cartels just send it over the border

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  26. Hope yarrinto and Hernandez get the same cell in the USA with 40-42

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  27. El mencho no dura. De mi se acuerdan. En menos de lo que piensan. Y nada cambia todo es lo mimso algunos se cambian el nombre. Y cambian los apellidos al mando. JAGL.

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    1. Chapitos and/or el mayo will be caught next month. Just watch

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  28. HOW MUCH MEMBERS IN CDS, CJNG?

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  29. Didn't Chapo wife visit the u.s and had a meeting behind closed doors before his extradition

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