The days of the big cartels are over Mexico's criminal underworld fragments and we will see more high level groups who are no longer centered on direct involvement in drug activity but mainly focused on providing services to lower level drug traffickers and international mafia groups.

They should stop using the word "Cartel" in my opinion.

https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/...laundering-op-busted-in-florida-16958483


Florida Feds Charge Alleged Mexican Cartel Associate With Laundering Nearly $7 Million Through Crytocurrency

Mexican Cartels Are Turning Once-Peaceful Ecuador Into a Narco War Zone

https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgwxyn/ecuador-mexico-drug-war-cocaine

Tijuana Mayor Caballero threatened by Mexican drug cartel

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/t...tened-by-mexican-drug-cartel/ar-AA1bQZfo

https://nypost.com/2023/05/30/pablo-escobars-hippos-headed-to-el-chapos-mexican-homeland/

Pablo Escobar’s feral hippos are being airlifted — to El Chapo’s Mexican homeland

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...o-cartel-linked-call-centers-Mexico.html

American, 23, among seven workers kidnapped from two Mexican 'cartel-linked' call centers that reportedly targeted seniors in the United States and Canada by fraudulently selling or renting their time shares

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...red-following-search-missing-people.html


Mexican cartel horror as 45 bags filled with the remains of men and women are discovered in a ravine following search for group who worked at call centre linked to crime gangs

But why? What did they do to get chopped up?

Most have been killed as rival drug gangs battle for key trafficking corridors into the United States.

-They seek to use beheadings to cow the citizenry from squealing on them and to pressure local authorities to collaborate.
-Fear paralyzes people, stopping them from interfering with their business e.g. by stealing goods. And fear can make people cooperate, e.g. when a cartel seeks to take over an area.

-It is meant to intimidate rivals and send a message to the authorities,” security expert Alejandro Hope told the Associated Press.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/drug-cartel-call-center-workers-killed-body-parts-placed-in-bags/

8 workers apparently tried to quit their jobs at a drug cartel call center. They were killed and their body parts were placed in bags.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/07/americas/mexico-investigate-army-video-intl-latam/index.html


Mexico investigates army personnel seen on video appearing to beat and kill suspected cartel members

https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-ne...ouncilwoman-to-be-drug-mule-lawyer-says/

Cartel forced Mexican city councilwoman to be drug ‘mule,’ lawyer says

https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/n...ia-oregon-human-trafficking/70329795007/

Cartel-backed pot grows linked to human trafficking, inhumane working conditions

https://nypost.com/2023/06/20/drug-cartels-homemade-tanks-seized-by-mexican-government/

Drug cartels’ homemade armored ‘monster’ tanks seized by Mexican government

https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7bbxv/mexico-pharmacies-fake-pills-cjng-sinaloa-cartel

Cartels Are Using Pharmacies To Sell Fake Pills Laced With Fentanyl and Meth to Unwitting Tourists

https://insightcrime.org/news/history-military-style-patches-used-by-mexican-cartels/

Sinaloa's Rat, Jalisco's Rooster: The Evolution of Cartel Patches in Mexico

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...s-accused-supplying-Mexican-cartels.html

DoJ files first-ever charges against Chinese fentanyl manufacturers for fueling America's deadly opioid crisis: Two execs are arrested in Hawaii and one is on the run

For at least the last seven years, Mexican mobsters including from El Chapo's notorious Sinaloa cartel have been paying Chinese middle-men to 'clean' money made selling drugs on America's streets in a complex scheme involving members of Beijing's elite.

https://lawandcrime.com/crime/19-pe...ganizations-tied-to-mexican-cartel-feds/


19 people charged in a crackdown targeting heavily-armed drug trafficking organization tied to Mexican cartel: Feds

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023...des-in-mexican-city-amid-cartel-turf-war

Suspected car bomb explodes in Mexican city amid cartel turf war

https://www.courier-journal.com/sto...ear-orlando-to-ship-cocaine/70258020007/

How a 'narco-plane' expert headed off a major cartel drug shipment into the US

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mexico-14-police-officers-abducted-gunmen-chiapas/


Gunmen kidnap more than a dozen police employees in southern Mexico

https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkakqb/mexico-hipolite-mora-murdered-drug-cartel

He Accused a Local Drug Lord of Owning Meth Labs. Then He Was Brutally Murdered.

https://www.click2houston.com/news/...-earmarked-for-mexican-cartel-sentenced/

Drug trafficker who had possession of rocket launcher, grenades and ammo earmarked for Mexican cartel sentenced

https://www.ladbible.com/news/braulio-castellanos-mexican-mafia-dying-note-prison-246885-20230626


Mafia boss dying of cancer in prison leaves note with instructions for gang members

https://www.wfxb.com/2023/07/05/ano...can-cartel-kidnapping-of-four-americans/

Another Arrest Made In Connection To Mexican Cartel Kidnapping Of Four Americans

https://www.indiatoday.in/world/sto...y-violent-drug-cartel-2402752-2023-07-06

Body parts strewn around Mexico City, apparently left by violent cartel

https://hoodline.com/2023/07/nickna...ow-drug-smuggling-fund-lavish-lifestyle/


Nicknamed the 'Goalie,' Border Agent Took Bribes from Cartel to Allow Drug Smuggling; Fund Lavish Lifestyle

https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d9...rged-with-taking-bribes-to-smuggle-drugs

A Border Agent Was Just Charged With Taking Bribes from Cartels to Smuggle Drugs

https://www.thestar.com/news/world/...tel-hitman-pleads-guilty-to-charges.html

Alleged Mexican drug cartel hitman pleads guilty to charges
Juan Francisco Sillas-Rocha, of Tijuana, Mexico, pleaded guilty to three charges in a hearing before Chief Judge Peter Welte in Fargo, North Dakota, including conspiracy to commit murder in furtherance of the continuing criminal enterprise.

https://abcnews.go.com/Internationa...co-amid-rising-cartel-violence-101324491

Another journalist killed in Mexico amid rising cartel violence