MEXICO CITY — Despite the arrest, extradition and now conviction of narco-lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, his Sinaloa Cartel marches on — and the proof is in huge, multi-drug shipments detected on the border in recent weeks. The cartel still controls a worldwide web of contacts that can move Colombian cocaine to Cameroon and Mexican meth cooks to Malaysia. So while the capture and trial of Guzman “was a great moral victory for the rule of law, it did very little to have a negative impact on the Sinaloa cartel,” Vigil said. That is probably one of the two biggest threats to the Sinaloa cartel: It’s literally killing its customers. The other is the upstart Jalisco New Generation cartel, which has tried to stage incursions into Sinaloa territory, sparking bloody turf battles in places like Tijuana.

Source: National Post February 12, 2019 20:15 UTC