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Twins Enterprise York | Joseph Alwine

Michael Webster: Investigative Reporter May 1, 2008 8:00 PM PDT

The overwhelming influence and power of the Mexican Drug Cartels who are the

Mexican drug trafficking organizations and criminal gangs operating in Mexico and the United States.

They have emerged in recent years as the most dangerous and politically influential drug traffickers in the western hemisphere if not the world. The Mexican cartels have existed for some time, they have become increasingly powerful with the demise of the Medellin and Cali cartels in Colombia and have now come to dominate the U.S. illicit

drug market and other criminal enterprises.

According to the National Drug Intelligence Center, Mexican cartels are “the

predominant smugglers, transporters, and wholesale distributors of cocaine, marijuana,

methamphetamine, and Mexico-produced heroin in the United States” and “are

expanding their control over the distribution of these drugs in areas controlled by

Colombian and Dominican criminal groups, and now believed to include all of the U.S.A..

In addition to drug trafficking, cartels have been tied to illegal alien, terrorist, arms smuggling and

those proceeds are subsequently laundered through seemingly legitimate local

businesses.

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The cartels through the criminal gangs who work for them have been involved in kidnappings and

military style training camps, some reported to be along the border with the U.S.

FBI Director Robert Mueller described U.S. based-gangs as “more

organized, more violent, and more widespread than ever.” The Department of Justice

estimates there are approximately 30,000 gangs with more than 800,000 members in the

U.S. Mueller believes these violent gangs pose a growing threat to the safety and

security of Americans.

As this reporter has documented Mexican Drug cartels are ordering decapitations of cartel enemies, including federal, state and city police officers. Many of these victims were blind folded and hooded before they shoot them.

Other types of violence to murder victims were: Physical beating, torture, or body dumped on

street or lot torture involving beating, tooth removal, appendage removal, death by torture, strangulation, single shot to head and/or multiple shots to head and body.

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