Narco Confidential: Is Mexico Running Out of Its Legendary Bad Guys? The Associated Press | |
go to original March 5, 2015 |
Stratfor Mexico Security Analyst Tristan Reed describes the new cartel map, which reflects the importance of regional-based organized crime groups in Mexico. (STRATFOR)
The flow of drugs into the United States hasn’t slowed, and much of Mexico remains wracked by gangster violence, but what has happened to the super narcos?
From Colombia’s Pablo Escobar to Mexico’s Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the days when a handful of big-time drug lords, whose names were known far and wide, seem to be long gone.
The arrest last week in Mexico of Servando Gomez, aka “La Tuta,” of the Knights Templar Cartel, was described as the most significant arrest since the capture of Guzman last year. His arrest further muddles the picture of who is in charge.
The recent conviction in Texas of 23-year-old Juan Francisco Saenz-Tamez, who was so new on the job hardly anyone had heard of him, showed how cartel leadership has fallen into younger and younger hands, and how it has become increasingly unclear who is in charge of any slice of Mexico’s underworld at any given moment.
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