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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
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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 • Money covers recruitment, training, and equipping gunmen. Sample Cartel Organizational Chart Drug Enforcement Administration
Analysis • Cartel organizational charts resemble Fortune 500 companies. • Testimonies reveal similarities between drug-trafficking organizations (DTOs) and legitimate corporation[s]. • Both seek transnational networks and diversified interests. • It is all about money and expansion.
Gulf Cartel Los Zetas Diversified Interest Smuggling immigrants Extortion rackets Border Businesses Drug Distribution Marijuana Cocaine Other Weapons Trafficking Expansion Extortion rackets Piracy Drug Distribution Marijuana Cocaine Other Weapons Trafficking
Comments Gulf Cartel Members Huffington 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 Member Huffington 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-texas-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 amteran@broncs.utpa.edu Global Security Studies & Leadership