Supply Chains of Mexican Drug Cartels
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Supply Chains of Mexican Drug Cartels
April 7, 2014Georgia Tech
Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI): 1929-2000; 2012-Present
Dominated Most Aspects of Society * Captive Labor Movement
* Educational System * The petroleum sector (PEMEX)
* Mass media* Transportation
* Economic policy Mining
Mexico’s Approaches to Drug Cartels Institutional Revolutionary Party
(PRI): 1970s to early 1990sFernando Gutierrez Barrios
Rules of the Game
National Action Party (PAN): 2000 to 2006
Vicente Fox Quesada
Two Major Types of CartelsTransactional
(Moving commodities from point A to point B)
• Trafficking narcotics• Money laundering• Front businesses• Importance of logistics • More personnel • Cell-like organization
Territorial Control & Taxation of an area
• Enemies of states because they are so much alike;
• Hierarchical;• Resilient;• Prone to Violence• Funded by Taxation
(extortion, kidnapping, graft, etc.
• Dual Sovereignty
La Familia Michoacana and the Knights Templars
Mexico’s Pacific Coast
Lazaro Cardenas, Michoacan Importance of port for Drug Cartels
* Relatively new (1970s)• Built near steel mills• Within 160 miles of 2/3rds
of the nation’s population• Attracted uprooted young
people• Economic downturn of the
mid-1990s
Sources of Drugs
Cocaine from Colombia
Precursor Chemicals from Asia
Trans-Ocean Cargo Ships
Semi-Submersible Submarine
Drug Export Honchos Enrique “Kiki” Plancarte
Export Boss “Oscar” (Command and Control Agent)
Shipments to the Border
Other Delivery Devices Pozo Seco, Sonora to Naco, Arizona 2011
Catapulting to Success
Super Tunnel 600-yard “Super Tunnel” Snaked from Tijuana to San Diego
Electricity, Ventilation, and Electric rail system
Major Mexican Highways
Crossing Points into U.S.
Dallas Main Hub in U.S. Extremely large, sprawling city • Interstate Highways
35 and 20; and • Major Airports (in area)• Large Hispanic-
American Population
Transfer to Smaller Vehicles Before Reaching Chicago
Pick-up Trucks SUVs
To the “Windy City”
Distribution Supervisors in Chicago AREARemain in the City of One Year ($100,000) + Bonus
Jose “Panda” Gonzalez Zavala
Luis Torres Galvan
• Arrested in June 2009(Operation Coronado); sentenced to 40 years in prison) • Arrested in June 2009(Operation Coronado);
Cocaine Delivery to Wholesalers
Average Suburban Home Appearance of Normal Mexican-
American Family
Cocaine Dropped off on Consignment
Collector of Sales of Cocaine
Safe House for Money
Unobtrusive Home from Outside Look What’s Inside!
Preparing the Dollars for Return to Michoacan
Encase Dollars in Durable Plastic BagsEncase in Concrete Used to Make
Pothole Covers
Return to Michoacan
Use Smaller Vehicles Leaving Chicago; make Transfer to Larger Vehicle on to the Border; & take Least Dangerous Route
Take Least Dangerous Route; From U.S. Border to Michoacan, Use corridors where mayors and other politicians are linked to the cartel
Self-Defense Forces Challenge Knights Templarios
Active in Stealing and Producing Iron Ore
Back to the Port of Lazaro Cardenas(Managed by a Hong Kong-based Firm)
Ore-Carrying Vessel Shanghai Skyscrapers
Return of Virgin of Guadalupe
W&M Professor Shamelessly Seeking a Job in Pemex—For one week