Editing Mexican drug cartels

'''Mexican drug cartels''' are rival [[organized crime]] organizations that have been fighting a 13-year war against each other as well as the Mexican government in order to gain control of the [[Illegal Drug Trade|illegal drug trade]].

==Forces==
===Mexico===

*Mexican Army
*Mexican Air Force
*Mexican Navy
*Mexican Naval Infantry
*Mexican Federal Police/National Guard
*Mexican state and municipal police forces
*Community self-defense groups(autodefensas)

=== United States ===

* DEA
* Border vigilante groups
* American state and municipal police forces

===The Drug cartels===

*[[Sinaloa Cartel]]
*[[Gulf Cartel]]
*[[Juárez Cartel]]
*[[Knights Templar Cartel]]
*[[Tijuana Cartel]]
*[[La Familia Cartel ]](disbanded)
*[[Los Zetas]]
*[[Beltrán-Leyva Cartel]] (disbanded)
*[[Jalisco New Generation Cartel]]
*[[Independent Cartel of Acapulco]]
*[[La Barredora]]
*[[Northeast Cartel]]
*[[Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel]]

==Commanders and Leaders==
===Mexico===

*Enrique Peña Nieto
*[[Felipe Calderón]]
*Mariano Francisco Saynez Mendoza
*Guillermo Galván Galván
*Sergio Aponte Polito
*Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
===The Drug cartels===

*[[Joaquín Guzmán|Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán]]
*[[Ismael Zambada García]]
*[[Ignacio Coronel Villarreal ]](deceased)
*[[Antonio Cárdenas Guillén]] (deceased)
*[[Jorge Eduardo Costilla Sánchez]]
*[[Vicente Carrillo Fuentes]]
*[[Luis Fernando Sánchez Arellano]],
*[[Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano]] (deceased)
*[[Miguel Treviño Morales]]
*[[Arturo Beltrán Leyva]] (deceased)
*[[Héctor Beltrán Leyva]]
*[[Nazario Moreno González]] (deceased
*[[Rafael Caro Quintero]]
*[[Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes]]
*[[Enedina Arellano Felix]]

==Strength==
===Mexico===

*50,000 soldiers
*35,000 Federal police
===The Drug cartels===

*100,00 foot soldiers


==Casualties and Losses==
===Mexico===

*1,000+ Police and prosecutors killed
*138 Army soldiers killed
*14 Marines killed
*318 Federal Police killed
*58 reporters killed
*1,000 children killed
===The Drug Cartels===

*121,199 cartel members detained
*8,500 convicted
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