Borderland Beat
Mexico- The arrest of Miguel Angel Trevino Morales, Z-40 (July 16, 2013), led to a restructuring of the Gulf cartel and its expansion into territories that were held by Los Zetas.
Moreover, the criminal group seeks to penetrate area markets of synthetic drug production in the possession of The Knights Templar and the Sinaloa cartel. Officials have noted this trend while participating in the national security cabinet.
Changes in drug consumption have also generated changes in criminal groups operating in Mexico, spurring restructuring; from 2012, the Attorney General of the Republic "found it was difficult to penetrate organizations to meet their leaders, to learn their methods of operation, areas of action, communication networks, and links with other international criminal gangs," noted in a report by the former head of the Attorney Specialized Investigation of Organized Crime (SEIDO) José Cuitláhuac Martínez Salinas.
Throughout the 90s and until 2000, the market for the production, marketing and trafficking of synthetic drugs was in the hands of the Amezcua Contreras brothers, known as the bosses of Colima cartel, subsequently the Milenio Cartel, led by Valencia family members, a group that in 2005 created La Familia Michoacan Family. And January 2011 founded the organization known as The Knights Templar.
SEIDO officials noted that the reports are forwarded to an information base that integrates the National Center for Planning, Analysis and Information to Combat Crime (Cenapi) reported that marijuana and poppy crops have dropped , but also observed the number of clandestine laboratories detected and dismantled.
Moreover, the criminal group seeks to penetrate area markets of synthetic drug production in the possession of The Knights Templar and the Sinaloa cartel. Officials have noted this trend while participating in the national security cabinet.
Changes in drug consumption have also generated changes in criminal groups operating in Mexico, spurring restructuring; from 2012, the Attorney General of the Republic "found it was difficult to penetrate organizations to meet their leaders, to learn their methods of operation, areas of action, communication networks, and links with other international criminal gangs," noted in a report by the former head of the Attorney Specialized Investigation of Organized Crime (SEIDO) José Cuitláhuac Martínez Salinas.
Throughout the 90s and until 2000, the market for the production, marketing and trafficking of synthetic drugs was in the hands of the Amezcua Contreras brothers, known as the bosses of Colima cartel, subsequently the Milenio Cartel, led by Valencia family members, a group that in 2005 created La Familia Michoacan Family. And January 2011 founded the organization known as The Knights Templar.
