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The Sinaloa Cartel (Spanish: Cártel de Sinaloa),[1][2] also known as the Guzmán-Loera Organization, the Pacific Cartel,[3] the Federation and the Blood Alliance,[4][5][6] is an international drug trafficking, money laundering, and organized crime group[7] established during the late 1980s.[8] The cartel is in the city of Culiacán, Sinaloa,[9] with operations in the Mexican states of Baja California, Durango, Sonora, and Chihuahua.[10][11]
The United States calls the Sinaloa Cartel "the most powerful drug trafficking organization in the world"[12] and in 2011, the Los Angeles Times called it "Mexico's most powerful organized crime group."[13] The group makes and sells opium, marijuana, heroin and cocaine. They also do human trafficking.
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