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The Golf Cartel , Cartel del Golfo or CDG is a criminal organization in Mexico . It is one of the oldest Mexican drug cartels, which dominates the border town of Heroica Matamoros on the Gulf of Mexico . It has lost power in recent years, particularly to its former paramilitary arm, Los Zetas .

Fields of activity

The Gulf cartel controls drug trafficking in Tamaulipas , deals in weapons and does business with illegal migrants to the United States.

The cartel maintains paramilitary militias with uniforms, standards and logos. These have a military command structure.

The symbol of the Golf Cartel is the white abbreviation CDG on a green, white and red background.

history

The origins of the Gulf cartel go back to Juan Nepomuceno Guerra , who had been involved in alcohol smuggling since the 1930s. In the 1980s, his nephew, Juan García Ábrego , took over the leadership of the criminal organization. In 1985 he got into the extremely lucrative cocaine trade with the Cali cartel . After García Abrego was arrested in 1996, leadership battles broke out within the Gulf cartel. From 1999 Osiel Cárdenas Guillén headed the drug cartel. With the help of the Los Zetas paramilitary group he had commissioned, he soon became one of the most powerful drug lords in Mexico. He was arrested on March 14, 2003 after an exchange of fire with the Mexican military .

On November 6, 2010, the brother of Osiel Cárdenas, Ezequiel Cárdenas Guillén (aka Tony Tormenta ), who had led the Gulf cartel since 1999, was killed in an exchange of fire with soldiers of the Mexican army. After his death, the drug cartel split into two parts. One parliamentary group is led by Jorge Eduardo Costilla Sánchez (aka El Coss) . The other was taken over by Mario Cárdenas Guillén , also a brother of Osiel Cárdenas, who was arrested by the Mexican Navy on September 3, 2012 . On August 18, 2013, SPIEGEL ONLINE wrote that Mario Armando Ramírez Treviño, who is considered the head of the syndicate, was arrested.

See also

Web links

Commons : Golf Cartel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Cecibel Romero: Rise for Paramilitary in Mexico: In the Shadow of the Drug War. In: taz.de . October 7, 2010, accessed January 8, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b Strike against the golf cartel: the military takes the Mexican drug lord. In: Spiegel Online . September 5, 2012, accessed January 8, 2017 .
  3. ↑ 'Drug boss' captured in Mexico. In: BBC News , March 15, 2003.
  4. ↑ Drug war in Mexico - drug boss dies in a hail of bullets. In: sueddeutsche.de . November 7, 2010, accessed January 8, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Klaus Ehringfeld: Infamous Gulf Cartel: Mexico holds powerful drug lord X-20th In: Spiegel Online . August 18, 2013, accessed January 8, 2017 .