And during the Obama Administration, they rose to be the most powerful organized crime group on the planet. This has allowed them to spread their influence up and down the various drug smuggling routes down into Central America and Colombia and up into the United States. And if anything, you try to make their lives a little bit better and use some of your drug proceeds to help local groups.Īnd as a result in the state of Sinaloa, the bulk of the population is actually broadly neutral to favorable when they think of the cartel specifically, because it’s a group that brings in money and doesn’t bring in a lot of pain. And that way the general population doesn’t think of you as a problem. To kind of sum it up, you don’t shit where you sleep. You don’t shoot the local police, you don’t rob from old ladies. They thought of themselves as a business and El Chapo, the leader of that organization, made it very clear to everyone that you do not prey upon the locals. The Sinaloa Cartel until recently was the most powerful organized crime group in the world, and that’s because they did their business differently. Not saying specifically the two are linked, but it is a little coincidental.Ī little bit of background. Ovidio Guzman, who is the son of the former cartel head, El Chapo of the Sinaloa Cartel, has been arrested and spirited off to Mexico City in anticipation of the Biden Administration’s presidential visit coming next week. It’s January 6, and the news is out of Mexico. Hey everybody Peter Zeihan coming to you from…i don’t even know where I am today. And considering that the Jalisco New Generation is so hyper violent, and has now overtaken the Sinaloa as the largest organized crime group in Mexico, it’s something we honestly should be preparing for. But that hasn’t happened yet and there’s no reason to think that it has to happen.Īnyway, that is the risk moving forward, that the Mexican drug war actually comes north of the border.
And if he were to slip in the shower and fall in some bullets tomorrow, his whole organization might disintegrate. El Chapo led a dis-aggregated organization with a light touch.
Now I’m not saying that is how this is going to go. But if they do, their own penchant for violence, the whole idea that the shit is the point of being a cartel, is going to change the political discussion within the United States and between Washington and Mexico City, almost overnight. Now to this point, they have not succeeded in crossing the border. And they are now the most powerful drug trafficking organization within the Mexican state and they are challenging the other cartels for control of each and every one of the transfer plazas on the border. And their violence in their expansion has been successful in gaining territory and eliminating rivals, but at a huge cost. And so they do everything that the Sinaloa doesn’t. And so violence is a means to an end.Įl Mencho sees the violence as the point because it underlines to everyone who is in charge immediately. Their general position is that we are drug smugglers, yes, but drug smugglers is an outcome of our violence, whereas El Chapo and the Sinaloa was like, you know, we are drug smugglers, and that is a business. And when his group moves into a town, they don’t try to kind of lay low and win over people. Their leader is a guy by the name of El Mencho and he is former Mexican military and hyper violent. The Jalisco New Generation Cartel, emerging as the new big-dog, has settled on a shoot-first-ask-questions-later approach…and while effective, it has garnered some unwanted attention for the cartel’s operations.īasically, the enforcers of El Chapo are now working there, and they have a very different outlook.
The power struggle caused by El Chapo’s vacancy has changed everything. The Sinaloa Cartel, once the world’s most powerful organized crime group, owes its success to a business-first approach (violence was just a means to an end). But the lesser known – and perhaps more important story – is the disarray he left behind. We all know the story of El Chapo’s capture and escape…and capture. Straight Arrow News contributor Peter Zeihan warns that the group, which has filled the power vacuum for the fractured Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico, could bring its hyper-violent methods across the border.Įxcerpted from Peter’s Jan. Now there are concerns that the violence in Mexico could expand into the U.S. Guzman, thought to be one of the leaders of the Sinaloa organization, was captured in northern Mexico in a bloody operation that led to the deaths of at least 29 people. The arrest of Ovidio Guzman, the son of former Sinaloa cartel leader “ El Chapo,” sparked speculation he could be extradited to the United States to join his father in an American prison.
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