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Conflict | Mexican Drug War | Date | December 11, 2006 � present ( ) | Location | Mexican states of Baja California, Durango, Sonora, Oaxaca, Guerrero, Chihuahua, Michoacán, Tamaulipas, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí and Sinaloa. | Status | Conflict ongoing | | | Felipe Calderón
Mariano Francisco Saynez Mendoza
Guillermo Galván Galván
Sergio Aponte Polito | Joaquín Guzmán Loera,
Ismael Zambada García,
Ignacio Coronel Villarreal ,
Antonio Cárdenas Guillén ,
Jorge Eduardo Costilla Sánchez,
Vicente Carrillo Fuentes,
Luis Fernando Sánchez Arellano,
Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano,
Edgar Valdez Villarreal
Arturo Beltrán Leyva
Héctor Beltrán Leyva,
Nazario Moreno González
| 50,000 soldiers 35,000 Federal Police | 100,000 foot soldiers | 1,000+ Police and prosecutors killed
138 Army soldiers killed
14 Marines killed
318 Federal Police killed
58 reporters killed
~1,000 children killed | 121,199 cartel members detained but only 8,500 convicted | 62 killed in 2006
2,837 killed in 2007
6,844 killed in 2008
9,635 killed in 2009
15,273 killed in 2010
4,741 killed in 2011
Total killed: 39,392 (December 2006 � May 2011) |
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The Mexican Drug War is an ongoing armed conflict taking place among rival drug cartels, who fight each other for regional control, and Mexican government forces who seek to combat drug trafficking. Although Mexican drug cartels, or drug trafficking organizations, have existed for a few decades, they have become more powerful since the demise of Colombia's Cali and Medellín cartels in the 1990s. Mexican drug cartels now dominate the wholesale illicit drug market in the United States. Arrests of key cartel leaders, particularly in the Tijuana and Gulf cartels, have led to increasing drug violence as cartels fight for control of the trafficking routes into the United States.
The U.S. Department of Justice estimates that the wholesale of illicit drug sale earnings range from $13.6 billion to $48.4 billion annually. Mexican drug traffickers increasingly smuggle money back into Mexico in cars and trucks, likely due to the
effectiveness of U.S. efforts at monitoring electronic money transfers.
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