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Mexican drug cartels

Mexican Drug War
Part of the War on Drugs
Fuerza del Estado Michoacán.jpg
Mexican soldiers during a confrontation in Michoacán in August 2007
Date 11 December 2006 (2006-12-11) – present (10 years, 5 months and 3 days)
Location Mexico (particularly the states of Baja California, Durango, Sinaloa, Guerrero, State of Mexico, Chihuahua, Michoacán, Tamaulipas, Nuevo León, Veracruz, Coahuila, Jalisco, San Luis Potosí, Nayarit, Zacatecas, Oaxaca, Morelos, and Sonora)
Status

Ongoing

Belligerents

Mexico

 United States

 Colombia


Civilians' .

  • Other Vigilante groups
  • In Michoacan: The Self Defense Council
  • In Tamaulipas: The General Pedro J Mendez Armed Column
  • Michoacan's Rural State Force

Supported by:
 United States

 Colombia


Guerrilla groups:
People's Revolutionary Army

Sinaloa Cartel


Supported by:
Mexican Mafia
MS-13
FARC
Los Rastrojos
Usuga Clan
Sicilian Mafia
Chinese Triads
 Venezuela (alleged)

Los Zeta logo.jpg Los Zetas


Supported by:
MS-13
The Office of Envigado (semi-defunct)
Los Urabeños
Hermanos de Pistoleros Latinos
'Ndrangheta
Hezbollah (alleged)
Commanders and leaders
Mexico Enrique Peña Nieto
Mexico Vidal Francisco Soberón Sanz
Mexico Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda
Mexico Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong
Mexico Jesús Murillo Karam (2012–15)
Mexico Mariano Francisco Saynez Mendoza (2006–12)
Mexico Guillermo Galván Galván (2006–12)
Mexico Marisela Morales (2011)
Mexico Sergio Aponte Polito
Community Police leaders (with official support from the government as of Jan 28. 2014):
José Manuel Mireles Valverde(Arrested)
Hipólito Mora
Estanislao Beltrán
Alberto Gutiérrez (aka. Comandante 5)
Ismael Zambada García (Fugitive)
Joaquín Guzmán Loera (Arrested)
Juan José Esparragoza Moreno (Fugitive)
Homero Cárdenas Guillén (possibly dead)
Ignacio Coronel Villarreal 
Antonio Cárdenas Guillén 
Jorge Eduardo Costilla Sánchez (Arrested)
Nazario Moreno González 
Omar Treviño Morales (Arrested)
Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano  
Miguel Treviño Morales (Arrested)
Arturo Beltrán Leyva  
Héctor Beltrán Leyva (Arrested)
Luis Fernando Sánchez Arellano (Arrested)
Isidro Esparza (Arrested)
Vicente Carrillo Fuentes (Arrested)
Strength

 Mexico

  • 260,000 soldiers
  • 35,000 Federal Police

 United States

  • Unknown number of Marshals and agents
  • Flights for "Dirtbox" cell phone signal tracking
+100,000 individuals
Casualties and losses

Mexico:

  • 395 servicemen killed
  • 137 servicemen missing
  • 4,020 Federal, State, and Municipal Police killed

Other:

  • 58 reporters killed
  • ≈1,000 children killed
12,456 cartel members confirmed killed
121,199 cartel members detained
8,500 cartel members convicted

Total homicides attributable to organized crime: 56,000-90,000+ (various estimates): 83,191 during Felipe Calderon's administration; 23,640 in the first 14 months of Enrique Peña Nieto's administration

  • 62 killed in 2006
  • 2,837 killed in 2007
  • 6,844 killed in 2008
  • 11,753 killed in 2009
  • 19,546 killed in 2010
  • 24,068 killed in 2011
  • 18,061 killed in 2012 (by October 31, 2012)
  • 23,640 killed in 2013 (through to March 2014)

Total displaced: 1.6 million (as of 2012)

Ongoing

Mexico

 United States

 Colombia

Civilians' .

Supported by:
 United States

 Colombia


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