Mexico's Newest Cartels Are Smaller, More Localized But Just as Ruthless Andrew O'Reilly - Fox News Latino
go to original November 12, 2014

Mexican young cartel members dig their social media and are using it for PR purposes. (Facebook)

It appears that after almost eight years of widespread warfare between Mexican authorities and the country’s notorious drug cartels, a newer group of criminals is emerging from the battle dust - one that operates on a much more local level than its international drug-smuggling brethren.

“[Former President Felipe] Calderón’s strategy was to pulverize those groups and weaken them into these little ones,” Tony Payan, the Mexico center director of the Baker Institute at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, told Fox News Latino. “There is now a proliferation of hundreds of these smaller groups.”

Groups like Guerreros Unidos, who are purportedly responsible for the slaying and burning of the 43 students, have become one of the main threats to the Mexican public as the government continues to dismantle the major cartels – either by arresting or killing the groups’ major players.

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