The Sinaloa cartel is that big? I am not certain how big they are I always just saw them as a group under the umbrella of the label of “Mexican drug cartel†like other Mexican cartels. Which is why I saw them as a subset. It’d be like comparing the value of one MLB team to the value of all of the NFL teams combined. If we compared the Sinaloa cartel and the whole Ndrangheta then I think the Ndrangheta has more money and power. We would be taking all of the powerful individual families into account.
It is, 'Ndrangheta has around 5000 members and who knows how much associates(probably around 20,000~30,000). Sinaloa Cartel has over 3000-4000 members for sure.
On 25 February 2009, the U.S. government announced the arrest of 750 members of the Sinaloa Cartel across the U.S. in Operation Xcellerator.
