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.

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 "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