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Supply Chains of Mexican Drug Cartels
April 7, 2014Georgia Tech
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Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI): 1929-2000; 2012-Present
Dominated Most Aspects of Society * Captive Labor Movement
* Educational System * The petroleum sector (PEMEX)
* Mass media* Transportation
* Economic policy Mining
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Mexico’s Approaches to Drug Cartels Institutional Revolutionary Party
(PRI): 1970s to early 1990sFernando Gutierrez Barrios
Rules of the Game
National Action Party (PAN): 2000 to 2006
Vicente Fox Quesada
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Two Major Types of CartelsTransactional
(Moving commodities from point A to point B)
• Trafficking narcotics• Money laundering• Front businesses• Importance of logistics • More personnel • Cell-like organization
Territorial Control & Taxation of an area
• Enemies of states because they are so much alike;
• Hierarchical;• Resilient;• Prone to Violence• Funded by Taxation
(extortion, kidnapping, graft, etc.
• Dual Sovereignty
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La Familia Michoacana and the Knights Templars
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Mexico’s Pacific Coast
Lazaro Cardenas, Michoacan Importance of port for Drug Cartels
* Relatively new (1970s)• Built near steel mills• Within 160 miles of 2/3rds
of the nation’s population• Attracted uprooted young
people• Economic downturn of the
mid-1990s
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Sources of Drugs
Cocaine from Colombia
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Precursor Chemicals from Asia
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Trans-Ocean Cargo Ships
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Semi-Submersible Submarine
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Drug Export Honchos Enrique “Kiki” Plancarte
Export Boss “Oscar” (Command and Control Agent)
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Shipments to the Border
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Other Delivery Devices Pozo Seco, Sonora to Naco, Arizona 2011
Catapulting to Success
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Super Tunnel 600-yard “Super Tunnel” Snaked from Tijuana to San Diego
Electricity, Ventilation, and Electric rail system
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Major Mexican Highways
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Crossing Points into U.S.
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Dallas Main Hub in U.S. Extremely large, sprawling city • Interstate Highways
35 and 20; and • Major Airports (in area)• Large Hispanic-
American Population
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Transfer to Smaller Vehicles Before Reaching Chicago
Pick-up Trucks SUVs
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To the “Windy City”
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Distribution Supervisors in Chicago AREARemain in the City of One Year ($100,000) + Bonus
Jose “Panda” Gonzalez Zavala
Luis Torres Galvan
• Arrested in June 2009(Operation Coronado); sentenced to 40 years in prison) • Arrested in June 2009(Operation Coronado);
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Cocaine Delivery to Wholesalers
Average Suburban Home Appearance of Normal Mexican-
American Family
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Cocaine Dropped off on Consignment
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Collector of Sales of Cocaine
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Safe House for Money
Unobtrusive Home from Outside Look What’s Inside!
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Preparing the Dollars for Return to Michoacan
Encase Dollars in Durable Plastic BagsEncase in Concrete Used to Make
Pothole Covers
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Return to Michoacan
Use Smaller Vehicles Leaving Chicago; make Transfer to Larger Vehicle on to the Border; & take Least Dangerous Route
Take Least Dangerous Route; From U.S. Border to Michoacan, Use corridors where mayors and other politicians are linked to the cartel
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Self-Defense Forces Challenge Knights Templarios
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Active in Stealing and Producing Iron Ore
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Back to the Port of Lazaro Cardenas(Managed by a Hong Kong-based Firm)
Ore-Carrying Vessel Shanghai Skyscrapers
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Return of Virgin of Guadalupe
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W&M Professor Shamelessly Seeking a Job in Pemex—For one week