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Supply Chains of Mexican Drug Cartels

Supply Chains of Mexican Drug Cartels . April 7, 2014 Georgia Tech. Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI): 1929-2000; 2012-Present. Dominated Most Aspects of Society * Captive Labor Movement * Educational System

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Supply Chains of Mexican Drug Cartels

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  1. Supply Chains of Mexican Drug Cartels April 7, 2014 Georgia Tech

  2. 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

  3. Mexico’s Approaches to Drug Cartels Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI): 1970s to early 1990s Fernando Gutierrez Barrios National Action Party (PAN): 2000 to 2006 Vicente Fox Quesada Rules of the Game

  4. Two Major Types of Cartels Transactional (Moving commodities from point A to point B) 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 • Trafficking narcotics • Money laundering • Front businesses • Importance of logistics • More personnel • Cell-like organization

  5. La Familia Michoacana and the Knights Templars

  6. 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

  7. Sources of Drugs Cocaine from Colombia

  8. Precursor Chemicals from Asia

  9. Trans-Ocean Cargo Ships

  10. Semi-Submersible Submarine

  11. Drug Export Honchos Enrique “Kiki” Plancarte Export Boss “Oscar” (Command and Control Agent)

  12. Shipments to the Border

  13. Other Delivery Devices Pozo Seco, Sonora to Naco, Arizona 2011 Catapulting to Success

  14. Super Tunnel 600-yard “Super Tunnel” Snaked from Tijuana to San Diego Electricity, Ventilation, and Electric rail system

  15. Major Mexican Highways

  16. Crossing Points into U.S.

  17. Dallas Main Hub in U.S. Extremely large, sprawling city • Interstate Highways 35 and 20; and • Major Airports (in area) • Large Hispanic-American Population

  18. Transfer to Smaller Vehicles Before Reaching Chicago Pick-up Trucks SUVs

  19. To the “Windy City”

  20. 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);

  21. Cocaine Delivery to Wholesalers Average Suburban Home Appearance of Normal Mexican- American Family

  22. Cocaine Dropped off on Consignment

  23. Collector of Sales of Cocaine

  24. Safe House for Money Unobtrusive Home from Outside Look What’s Inside!

  25. Preparing the Dollars for Return to Michoacan Encase Dollars in Durable Plastic Bags Encase in Concrete Used to Make Pothole Covers

  26. 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

  27. Self-Defense Forces Challenge Knights Templarios

  28. Active in Stealing and Producing Iron Ore

  29. Back to the Port of Lazaro Cardenas(Managed by a Hong Kong-based Firm) Ore-Carrying Vessel Shanghai Skyscrapers

  30. Return of Virgin of Guadalupe

  31. W&M Professor Shamelessly Seeking a Job in Pemex—For one week

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