Originally Posted By: BordertownResident
Originally Posted By: Frank
Anyone knows how many members for each cartel??

Depending on what you consider what a cartel member is. Take Los Zetas for example, in each town or small city the Los Zetas have about 50-80 cartel soldiers but for each soldier they have about 4-10 criminals that work for them;some are hired guns, others are lookout or retail drug dealers and others all are a combo of a little bit of everything. There is a good Insight Crime Anaylisis article about Los Zetas that clears it up a bit more than me.

Take a read on the second post of the Insight Crime Analysis of Los Zeta thread. It really goes into about their economic model, membership status, and how they operate as a organization. http://www.gangsterbb.net/threads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=686503#Post686503


Yeah, I'm not sure what constitutes a member in the Zetas but their total manpower must be far larger than 200. They apparently have enough guys to maintain a presence throughout a huge part of the country and be rated, along with the Sinaloa group, as the two biggest and most powerful cartels in Mexico.

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