Title: Mexican drug war - Wikipedia
Headings: Mexican drug war
Mexican drug war
Contents
Background
Presidents
Vicente Fox
Felipe Calderón
Enrique Peña Nieto
Andrés Manuel López Obrador
Drug sources and use
Sources
Use
Poverty
Education
Mexican cartels
The Origin and Birth
Major cartels in the war
Sinaloa Cartel
Beltrán-Leyva Cartel
Juárez Cartel
Tijuana Cartel
Gulf Cartel
Los Zetas
La Familia Cartel
Knights Templar
CJNG
Nueva Plaza Cartel
Cartel propaganda
Paramilitaries
Women
Firearms
Smuggling of firearms
Gun origins
Project Gunrunner
Operations
Operation Michoacán
Escalation (2008–12)
Los Zetas-Gulf cartel conflict
Effects in Mexico
Casualties
Violence
Government corruption
Impact on human rights
Impact on public health
Journalists and the media
Murders of politicians
Massacres and exploitation of migrants
Human trafficking
Effects internationally
Europe
Guatemala
West Africa
Ecuador
Canada
United States
U.S. death toll and national security
Controversies
Money laundering
Drug demand
See also
References
Further reading
External links

Content: While Escobar's Medellin Cartel and the Cali Cartel would manufacture the products, Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo 's Guadalajara Cartel would oversee distribution. When enforcement efforts intensified in South Florida and the Caribbean, the Colombian organizations formed partnerships with the Mexico-based traffickers to transport cocaine by land through Mexico into the United States. This was easily accomplished because Mexico had long been a major source of heroin and cannabis, and drug traffickers from Mexico had already established an infrastructure that stood ready to serve the Colombia-based traffickers. By the mid-1980s, the organizations from Mexico were well-established and reliable transporters of Colombian cocaine. At first, the Mexican gangs were paid in cash for their transportation services, but in the late 1980s, the Mexican transport organizations and the Colombian drug traffickers settled on a payment-in-product arrangement. Transporters from Mexico usually were given 35% to 50% of each cocaine shipment. This arrangement meant that organizations from Mexico became involved in the distribution, as well as the transportation of cocaine, and became formidable traffickers in their own right. In recent years, the Sinaloa Cartel and the Gulf Cartel have taken over trafficking cocaine from Colombia to the worldwide markets. The balance of power between the various Mexican cartels continually shifts as new organizations emerge and old