NOW ONLY TWO DRUG CARTELS LEFT IN MEXICO

The head of criminal investigations for Mexico’s Attorney General says that of all the drug cartels, only the Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) remain

Tomás Zerón, head of criminal investigations for Mexico’s Attorney General, told the meeting of the 32nd International Conference for the Control of Drugs in Cartagena, Colombia Tuesday that of all the Mexican drug cartels only the Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) remain.

Zerón said that with the capture or killings of the top leaders of the Gulf, Juarez, Tijuana, Los Caballeros Templarios and Los Beltran Leyva cartels, those groups have become fractured with the different factions fighting each other. He also believes the Los Zetzas “are on the point of disintegration.”

According to Zerón, right now there remain three big Capos of drug trafficking in Mexico: Ismael Zambada "El Mayo"; Fausto Isidro Meza Flores "El Chapo Isidro" and Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes "El Mencho". The first two are the leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel and "El Mencho" is head of CJNG.

The Sinaloa Caetel is mostly into the trafficking of cocaine while the CJNG is mostly into trafficking methamphetamines. Both are also trafficking marijuana and heroin. Sinaloa Cartel and CJNG are both very strong and have taken over the territories formerly controlled by the disintegrated cartels.