It's leader, Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, alias “El Mencho,” is known for founding the criminal organization and building its prominence. He's accused of ordering several assassinations of Mexican politicians and is currently one of the most wanted men in Mexico.
CEO of the Sinaloa cartel, "El Chapo" is the world's most powerful drug trafficker. The cartel is responsible for an estimated 25% of all illegal drugs that enter the U.S. via Mexico. Drug enforcement experts estimate, conservatively, that the cartel's annual revenues may exceed $3 billion.
The cartel operated from 1976 to 1993 in the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania. At the height of its operations, the Medellín Cartel smuggled multiple tons of cocaine each week into countries around the world and brought in up more than US$188 million daily in drug profits.
Pablo Escobar (1949–1993) remains publicly the most powerful and wealthiest drug lord in history.
Pablo Escobar Gaviria
Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria (December 1, 1949 – December 2, 1993) was a Colombian drug overlord.
Dairo Antonio Úsuga David, called "the most dangerous drug trafficker in the world," extradited to the U.S. from Colombia.
He is considered to have been one of the most powerful drug traffickers in the world. Life in prison without the possibility of parole plus 30 years, must forfeit assets worth more than $12.6 billion.
Cartel activity is prohibited under the law. It is prohibited as a civil breach. It is also a criminal offence for individuals and for businesses.
The Medellín cartel, the first major drug cartel in Colombia, began in the mid-1970s when Colombian marijuana traffickers began smuggling small quantities of cocaine into the United States.
Billionaire, businessman and the chairman and chief executive of LVMH (LVMUY), Bernard Arnault holds the crown as the richest person in the world. According to Forbes, Arnault has a fortune of $234.5 billion.
The word cartel comes from the Italian word cartello, which means a "leaf of paper" or "placard", and is itself derived from the Latin charta meaning "card". The Italian word became cartel in Middle French, which was borrowed into English.
Cash from the United States was pouring into Pablo Escobar's hands every day. It is estimated that Pablo Escobar received over $50 million in cash each day through his drug sales.
Dubbed "the king of cocaine", Escobar was the wealthiest criminal in history, having amassed an estimated net worth of US$30 billion by the time of his death—equivalent to $70 billion as of 2022—while his drug cartel monopolized the cocaine trade into the United States in the 1980s and early 1990s.
The director of investigations at the NSW Crime Commission — the state's most powerful and secretive law enforcement agency — confirmed that members of Latin American cartels are present in Australia.
Businesses must not mislead consumers about what they'll be charged or why. Businesses must set prices independently of their competitors. It's illegal for businesses to agree on prices among themselves or engage in other anti-competitive pricing behaviour.
The United States Intelligence Community generally considers the Sinaloa Cartel to be the largest and most powerful drug trafficking organization in the world, making it perhaps even more influential and capable than Pablo Escobar's infamous Medellín Cartel of Colombia was during its prime.
And that is true in Mexico as well. The country's billionaire ranks swelled by one since last year to 13 list members, while their combined net worth rose by nearly a third to $136.1 billion (up from $103 billion).
-- The wife of notorious Mexican cartel leader Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was moved from a federal prison in Texas to a halfway house in Long Beach, California, according to an official with the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
Chapo started to come up in the late 1990s. Pablo never met Chapo. Pablo's contacts in Mexico in the '80s — we had great evidence, we had fax intercepts — were people like Amado Carrillo Fuentes, [known as] El Señor de Los Cielos. But Pablo never met with Chapo.
Joaquín Guzmán, in full Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera, byname El Chapo (“Shorty”), (born 1954/57?, La Tuna, Badiraguato, Sinaloa, Mexico), head of the Sinaloa drug cartel, one of the most powerful criminal organizations in Mexico from the late 20th century.