Gulf Cartels’ Corporate Structure
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Gulf Cartels’ Corporate Structure Alejandra Terán, Student, Global Security Studies and Leadership
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Gulf Cartels’ Corporate Structure. Alejandra Terán, Student, Global Security Studies and Leadership. Fortune 500 Structure. Top managers oversee revenue streams: Marijuana Cocaine Extortion Payments Costs nearly $1 million dollars to run a territory - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Gulf Cartels’ Corporate Structure
Alejandra Terán, Student, Global Security Studies and Leadership
Fortune 500 Structure
• Top managers oversee revenue streams:o Marijuanao Cocaineo Extortion Payments
• Costs nearly $1 million dollars to run a territory
• Money covers recruitment, training, and equipping gunmen.
Sample Cartel Organizational ChartDrug Enforcement Administration
Analysis• Cartel organizational charts resemble Fortune 500
companies.
• Testimonies reveal similarities between drug-trafficking organizations (DTOs) and legitimate corporation[s].o Both seek transnational networks and diversified interests.
• It is all about money and expansion.
Gulf Cartel Los Zetas
• Diversified Interesto Smuggling immigrantso Extortion racketso Border Businesses
• Drug Distributiono Marijuanao Cocaineo Other
• Weapons Trafficking
• Expansiono Extortion racketso Piracy
• Drug Distributiono Marijuanao Cocaineo Other
• Weapons Trafficking
Comments
Gulf Cartel MembersHuffington Post
• Gulf Cartel is one of the oldest cartels.
• Lost influence – backed up by the Sinaloa cartel.
• Leader is Jorge Eduardo Costilla Sanchez, alias "El Coss."
• The U.S. has a $5 million bounty for El Coss.
• Cartel operates from the state of Tamaulipas, with bases in Matamoros.
Los Zetas Cartel MemberHuffington Post
• The Zetas have increased in size in Mexico.
• Leader is the notoriously brutal gangster Miguel Angel Trevino Morales (alias "Z-40").
• Trevino is infamous for human "cookouts” – stuffing people in oil drums and lighting them on fire.
References• http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/jury-in-t
exas-convicts-gulf-drug-cartels-former-right-hand-man-of-supervising-drug-shipments/2012/09/28/b37fc412-09cc-11e2-9eea-333857f6a7bd_print.html
• http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2012/09/29/on-border-mexican-cartels-run-like-corporate-businesses/
• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/30/mexican-cartel-corporate-model_n_1926664.html#slide=1430017
Contact Information• A. M. Terán [email protected] Global Security Studies & Leadership
