finally! it has never made sense to compare all of the mexican cartels as a group compared to 'ndrangheta,russian mafia(a whole other thread),american against sicilian mafia as large top to bottom groups. no 1 person controls all of the russian mafia or 'ndrangheta,sicilian mafia etc...as all of u know. no 1 person not even el chapo controlled all of the sinaloa cartel when he was outside of prison.the logistics of that are ridiculous. comparing these large groups against each other is pointless. comparing individual families,factions,'ndrines,bratvas whatever operating under these groups would be a better question.
looking at the post above about the feb 2009 sinaloa arrests is a good example i'd be curious to know how many of those 750 arrested were directly connected to the el chapo led faction inside the sinaloa cartel.how many were loosely connected or just caught up in arrests and now released.how many were part of other organizations?
the 'ndrangheta #1 would probably be whichever 'ndrine controls the majority of cocaine imports into europe. there is a dispute as to who that is probably only 2-4 groups?
cosa nostra, ndrangheta and yamaguchi-gumi, for example, altough they have not a boss of bosses (sicilian mafia had in the past anyway) are a single big criminal group, compare a crew to another is pointless just to compare the group as a whole, they would be both 3 in the top inat least 3 indicators (structure, core leadership and longevity)
