The "gringo partners" of Mexican cartels, "U.S. Domestic Cartels" named

 Chivis Martinez  Borderland Beat  Proceso

A report from the Department of Justice confirms what Proceso revealed last February: the existence and growth of the US cartels and that they went from being simple employees of, to partners of Mexican criminal groups. The information locates the alliances that the criminal organizations of both countries forged and where they operate. As if that were not enough, the report gives a terrifying scenario about the consumption of synthetic drugs.

WASHINGTON (Process)–For the first time in its history, the United States government not only recognizes the existence of “domestic cartels”, it also identifies the areas that dominate those criminal organizations that are associated with the Mexican cartels.

A document from the US Department of Justice, entitled "Strategy Against Domestic Cartels," describes one by one the states in which the "gringo cartels" operate, the name by which these organizations are known in the world of drug trafficking.

The part of the Justice Department file that was delivered to Proceso shows the evolution of drug trafficking, distribution and sale in the United States since 1973, when Washington declared the war on drugs.

Accustomed to pointing towards Colombian and Mexican criminal organizations as responsible for the trafficking and consumption of illicit drugs in the United States, government agencies such as the Federal Anti-Drug Administration (DEA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Agency Central Intelligence (CIA), the Immigration and Customs Bureau (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) now look at each other to combat and understand the new reality of gringo drug trafficking.

At more than 150 pages, the Justice Department's Strategy confirms that criminal organizations in the United States –nourished by gangs and motorcycle clubs– have a “partnership” relationship and no longer a dependency on the Mexican cartels.

The information that a federal official shared with this weekly establishes with precision the cartography of US drug trafficking.

"They are domestic gangs distributed throughout the national territory that now function as independent organizations of criminal and transnational groups dedicated to the trafficking, distribution and sale of narcotics," the document states.

He explains that the gringo cartels operate under a kind of "free trade" because they can buy drugs from more than one Mexican criminal organization [unlike years gone by] ; it also reveals the names of the American motorcycle gangs and clubs that for a decade operated solely as drug dealers.

According to the information that the local authorities had, Los Hermanos Pistoleros Latinos, New Mexico Syndicate, Los Carnales, Latin Kings, Mexican Mafia, Sureños, MS-13, Wet Back Power, Sinaloa Cowboys, West Texas Tangos, worked for the Pacific Cartel. Los Negros, Arizona Mexican Mafia and Border Brothers.

For the Gulf Cartel, Los Hermanos Pistoleros Latinos, Partido Revolucionario Mexicano, Raza Unida and Texas Chicano Brotherhood distributed drugs.

The Mexican Mafia, Sureños and Border Brothers (California section) operated for the organization of the Arellano Félix brothers.

With Los Zetas were Barrio Azteca, Los Hermanos Pistoleros Latinos, Mexikanemi, MS-13, Texas Syndicate (US PERSON) and Los Bandidos.

La Familia Michoacana had the services of the Sureños, MS-13, West Texas Tangos and the Mexican Mafia.

When Vicente Carrillo Fuentes headed it, the Juárez Cartel operated in the United States with the distribution of Los Hermanos Pistoleros Latinos, Barrio Azteca, New Mexico Syndicate and Los Carnales.

Excerpt from the report published in the 2290 issue of Proceso magazine, already in circulation.