Traffic report - Battling Mexico's Sinaloa cartel
By Oscar Becerra
11 May 2010
Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel has won a long-standing conflict with the rival Juárez Cartel for control of the border town of Ciudad Juárez, allowing it to control lucrative trafficking routes into the United States, a US intelligence agent told the press in April. This assessment confirms the status of the Sinaloa Cartel as one of Mexico's most powerful and dangerous drug trafficking organisations, emerging successfully from a prolonged period of turf warfare.
By Oscar Becerra
11 May 2010
Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel has won a long-standing conflict with the rival Juárez Cartel for control of the border town of Ciudad Juárez, allowing it to control lucrative trafficking routes into the United States, a US intelligence agent told the press in April. This assessment confirms the status of the Sinaloa Cartel as one of Mexico's most powerful and dangerous drug trafficking organisations, emerging successfully from a prolonged period of turf warfare.