The New Generation Jalisco poster (CJNG) and the Sinaloa cartel are once again protagonists of the Annual Drug Control Report (DEA). The United States anti -narcotics agency has warned, in its 2025 report, about a possible alliance between Los Chapitos, one of the dispute factions inside the Sinaloa cartel, and the criminal organization at the head of Nemesio Oseguera, aka The Menchoone of the most powerful, influential and ruthless posters in Mexico, in addition to being a key provider of fentanyl to the northern neighborhood.
According to the DEA, the CJNG could seek to capitalize on the conflict between the factions of the Mayos and the Chapitos of the Sinaloa Cartel, essentially aligning in favor of its former rivals, the children of Joaquín Guzmán Loera, El Chapoagainst the offspring and followers of another of its founders, Ismael May Zambada, both fallen in disgrace from their paths and extradition to the United States.
“A strategic alliance between the CJNG and the Chapitos has the potential to expand the territories, resources, fire power and access of these groups to corrupt officials, which could result in a significant alteration of the existing balance of criminal power in Mexico and could serve to increase the flow of drugs to the north and the trafficking of weapons towards the south on the border between the United States and Mexico,” the report says.
For more than six months, Sinaloa has been besieged by the war between the different factions that seek control of the main criminal organization of that state. The confrontation between the children of the Chapo and those of May turned on its fuse in September 2024 and continues to date with a balance of more than 600 murders and almost 800 disappearances. If the inquiries of the DEA, the CJNG, with more than a decade of activity and that began as a cell at the service of Guzmán Loera, would be even more strengthened by its operations beyond the Mexican borders, with a presence in more than 40 countries, according to the report.
The DEA has made public its report in the midst of new tensions with the Government of Claudia Sheinbaum, for the rumors of the retirement of visas to some Mexican authorities, which includes leaders of Morena, governors and ex -secretary of their cabinet, for alleged links to drug trafficking, according to PROPUBLIC.
The tentacles of the criminal cell of Mencho have already seated base throughout the country, confirming their power and influence. In the center of Mexico and the South, according to the DEA, the CJNG has a “significant presence.” While in the north, in states such as Sonora, Baja California Sur, Sinaloa, Durango, Coahuila and Nuevo León is also present.
Another point that the document touches is how the cuinis, a family clan closely linked to the CJNG and its main financial arm, lead the diverse network of operations and money laundering tactics of the poster to repatriate to Mexico the gains of drug trafficking worldwide. “This group and other CJNG features use Chinese money laundering networks, cryptocurrency exchange platforms, smuggling large amounts of cash, money -based money laundering and other methods to bleach drug trafficking profits,” the report points out.
Xilazina + Fentanyl, equal to more income
For its part, the Sinaloa poster, despite the storm within its organization, continues with its “lucrative expansion” to different markets in Europe, Asia and even Australia. The criminal organization uses its vast distribution networks to transport drugs to the United States, mainly through the entry ports in California and Arizona. The partners, facilitators and affiliates of this poster operate in almost 50 US states.
His presence in Mexico is “significant”, especially in almost all of the north, except for states such as Nuevo León, Tamaulipas and Nayarit; as well as in southern Mexico and the capital. Where it is located, but with less presence, it is in the center. In entities such as Guanajuato, Michoacán, Colima, Puebla and Hidalgo also has less presence. The only state where its presence is void is Jalisco, Bastion of the CJNG.
The DEA has emphasized and warned about some of the practices of some of the factions in the United States of the Sinaloa cartel with respect to the fentanyl, which is being mixed with xyilazine, a powerful sedative, myorrelajante and non -narcotic analgesic for animals. “They began to add xilazine to the fentanyl lots that are introduced to smuggling in the United States, mainly destined to the markets of the East Coast. The US traffickers also mix xyilazine with their fentanyl supply, which allows both groups to optimize the supply and generate more income,” says the anti -narcotics agency.
In 2024, the DEA seized almost 10,000 kilograms of fentanil, approximately 29% less than in 2023. It also seized 61.1 million false pills, a 24% decrease with respect to past management. “Fentanyl adulteration with highly powerful and dangerous chemicals reminds us that this fight is far from finishing,” wrote the interim administrator of the DEA, Robert Murphy.
The data of the National Seizure System of the El Paso Intelligence Center, which consolidates the information of drug seizures of federal, state and local agencies throughout the United States, indicated a similar trend, with a total of 23,256 kilograms of fentanil seized in 2024, a decrease with respect to the previous year.
Other posters in the radar of the DEA
Beyond the Narcos de Sinaloa and Jalisco, Trump’s blacklist, which includes six Mexican posters as terrorists, remain on the radar of the DEA report. The operations and territorial presence of the Michoacan family (with a strong incidence in Michoacán, the capital and Guerrero); United posters, which is played Michoacán, Mexico City and Guerrero with the new Michoacan family, puts the eye on the distribution to tons of methamphetamines, cocaine and heroine to the United States.
While the monitoring of the Northwest poster, with “significant presence” in Nuevo León, Tamaulipas and Zacatecas; as well as the Gulf poster, with an important incidence in Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas and Veracruz, which operates approximately 16 states to the north, mainly in Texas, Oklahoma, California and the southeast United States, where drug trafficking, and especially that of people “represent significant income,” says the DEA.
According to the anti -narcotics agency, the posters in Mexico maintain a network of emails, border tunnels and hiding places throughout Mexico and the United States to support their traffic and distribution activities, which are reinforced by a wide variety of methods that include air load, maritime load and land transport.
As well as the Sinaloa cartel resorts to different media outrage through apps For their communication networks, the rest of Mexican criminal organizations have increasingly used social media platforms to promote pharmaceutical products, recruit and train emails and distributors, announce the sale of drugs, communicate with customers and plan transactions.
The DEA explains that the narco in ERL Country and the headquarters based in China resort to sophisticated shipping methods and multiple steps processes to evade the detection and national and international regulatory controls on chemical substances. “They use a series of international export agents, consignees, facilitators (such as transfording companies or transporters) and financiers to operate in multiple facets of the Fentanyl Precursors Supply Chain,” the document says.
Traffic methods and processes include the incorrect labeling of the load in shipping manifestos, the use of third countries such as transford points and the exploitation of legitimate companies to import chemical substances and subsequently divert them. It also warns that the country’s criminal organizations could expand their supply chains of chemical precursors to include manufacturers in India, Europe and other places and thus reduce their dependence on Chinese suppliers.
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