Senior Figures in Mexican Drug Cartels Said to Be Mulling Alliance Latin American Herald Tribune
go to original August 30, 2014

MEXICO CITY – Several of Mexico’s major drug cartels are pursuing an alliance, capital daily Reforma said Friday, citing unnamed intelligence sources.

The Juarez organization and Los Zetas are among the groups trying to create a “cartel of cartels,” the newspaper said in a front-page story.

The impetus to band together comes after each of the criminal outfits has experience significant setbacks, the sources told Reforma.

Senior figures from the Jalisco Nueva Generacion Cartel, the Juarez-based mob run by the Carrillo Fuentes family, Los Zetas and the Beltran Leyva cartel met in June in Piedras Negras, a city in the northern border state of Coahuila, according to the sources.

Those groups are active in the states of Sonora, Sinaloa, Durango, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas, Mexico, Hidalgo, Veracruz and Jalisco.

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Here’s a map of the territory controlled by Mexico’s most active drug cartels, based on Stratfor data. These borders are approximate and pretty much every part of Mexico not colored in is disputed territory. Click on any cartel territory for more info on the inter- and intra-cartel struggles in Mexico:

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