American pressure and El Mencho’s outrages could oblige President López Obrador to adopt tactics he has hitherto resisted
“one of the five most dangerous transnational criminal organisations in the world”. It wants Mexico to nab its boss.
The implementation of the kingpin strategy may have been corrupt. The government of Felipe Calderón, Mexico’s president from 2006 to 2012, locked up El Chapo’s rivals but rarely members of the Sinaloa gang. Mr Calderón’s security minister, Genaro García Luna, was arrested on charges of taking $50m in bribes from gangs. He is expected to go on trial in the United States. He denies wrongdoing.
The gang he leads now has operations in 27 of Mexico’s 32 states . It has succeeded in part because it was among the first to diversify away from cocaine into synthetic drugs like meth and, just as Americans were becoming hooked on opioids, fentanyl. The’s base is near Manzanillo and Lázaro Cárdenas, seaports where precursor chemicals arrive from China. It oversees manufacture of the drugs and ships them to the United States.
The government claims some successes. Its Financial Intelligence Unit froze nearly 2,000 bank accounts belonging to the. The Trump administration accepted Mexico’s demand that it help reduce the flow of weapons to Mexico, but has done little in practice. In March, before the pandemic chased people indoors, 2,628 people were murdered, a monthly record. The lockdown barely reduced the carnage.
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