These maps from the DEA show that ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán basically controls the entire US drug market

Posted: November 23, 2015 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
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Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán’s Sinaloa cartel is arguably the most powerful drug-trafficking organization in the Western Hemisphere — and in the world.

As of 2013, the DEA believed that the cartel supplied “80% of the heroin, cocaine, marijuana and methamphetamine — with a street value of $3 billion — that floods the Chicago region each year.”

And, as a DEA report released this summer makes clear, Guzmán’s organization has only expanded and deepened its US operations in the last two years.

dea el chapo narco map

(DEA Strategic Intelligence Section)
Shading indicates areas of cartel control, with darker-colored areas indicating population density, which is a sign of a potentially deep market for narcotics.

The DEA’s report cautions that “Mexican transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) pose the greatest criminal drug threat to the United States; no other group is currently positioned to challenge them.”

And, the DEA notes, “The Sinaloa Cartel maintains the most significant presence in the United States.”

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