Nine Mexican Cartels Are Responsible For Importing Drugs To The U.S. In 2020

According to the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Sinaloa Cartel (in orange) and its rival, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (in yellow), have the largest presence in US cities 

Daily Mail: REVEALED: How NINE Mexican cartels are responsible for flooding the streets of the United States with drugs - with El Chapo's Sinaloa gang and their rivals CJNG the biggest threats

 * The Drug Enforcement Administration's 2020 National Drug Threat Assessment lists nine Mexican cartels as the major importers of drugs to the U.S. in 2020 

 * DEA reports indicates that Mexican drug cartels 'are the greatest drug trafficking threat to the United States' 

 * The Sinaloa Cartel and its rival, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, are mentioned as the leaders of the pack 

 * The majority of heroin and fentanyl available in the US is smuggled overland across the south west border 

 * The DEA said that both cartels have held back shipments of methamphetamine to drive up prices in the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic 

Nine major Mexican cartels are responsible for flooding US cities with fentanyl, heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine, and marijuana, according to an annual report by the US Drug Enforcement Administration. 

The DEA's 2020 National Drug Threat Assessment, which was published Tuesday, shows how each of the key players exert their influence over different parts of the US. 

A map shows how El Chapo's Sinaloa Cartel and their rivals the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) were the dominant forces in funneling drugs over the Mexico-United States border in 2020. 

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WNU editor: No surprises here. The crisis at the U.S. - Mexican border is being taken advantage of by the cartels .... Biden’s US-Mexico border pullback creating ‘roads for the cartels,’ Arizona sheriff says: report (FOX 10).

DEA Releases Graphic Of Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán's Drug Empire In The U.S.

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This graphic drawn up by the DEA shows where El Chapo's criminal gang, the Sinaloa Cartel, has the most power, in dark and pale yellow. The darker the yellow, the more influence the gang has. However, it is still the most influential gang even in the pale yellow areas

Daily Mail: The United States of El Chapo: DEA cartel map of America shows that the fugitive drug lord dominates almost the whole of the US

* Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán's Sinaloa cartel controls swathes of America, according to an unclassified DEA report
* His empire sprawls across the US, with more influence in nearly all states than any other Mexican criminal gang
* Map shows that the fugitive kingpin's gang commands east US drug trade - as well as much of the south west
* His Sinaloa cartel 'maintains the most significant presence in the United States', the official report states
* El Chapo is still on the run after escaping a Mexican maximum security jail in July through a network of tunnels

Fugitive Mexican drug lord El Chapo's sprawling empire commands most of the illicit drugs trade in the United States, a new DEA report shows.

The drugs kingpin's Sinaloa cartel controls swathes of the US, with his organization only facing real competition in New Mexico, southern Texas and a handful of cities in the north west of the country.

The findings were released by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in an unclassified report showing the influence of Mexican drug cartels north of the border.

WNU Editor: That is a lot of territory.

Drug Cartel Money Funded DEA Sex Parties In Colombia

Politico: DEA agents had 'sex parties' with prostitutes, watchdog says

Agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration reportedly had “sex parties” with prostitutes hired by drug cartels in Colombia, according to a new inspector general report released by the Justice Department on Thursday.

In addition, Colombian police officers allegedly provided “protection for the DEA agents’ weapons and property during the parties,” the report states. Ten DEA agents later admitted attending the parties, and some of the agents received suspensions of two to 10 days.

The stunning allegations are part of an investigation by the Justice Department’s inspector general into claims of sexual harassment and misconduct within DEA; FBI; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; and the U.S. Marshals Service. The IG’s office found that DEA did not fully cooperate with its probe.

WNU Editor: I guess the "war on drugs" was not their priority.

More News On Drug Cartel Money Funded DEA Sex Parties In Colombia

U.S. drug agents had sex parties funded by drug cartels: watchdog -- Reuters
Report: DEA agents had ‘sex parties’ with prostitutes hired by drug cartels -- Washington Post
DEA Agents Took Part in Colombia Sex Parties, Watchdog Says -- Bloomberg
DEA agents sex party: Agents behaving badly overseas -- CNN
Watchdog: DEA agents attended cartel-funded 'sex parties' -- FOX News
DEA 'Sex Parties' Funded by Drug Cartels, IG Report Says -- ABC News
Government report: DEA agents had sex parties with prostitutes -- CBS
Review: Cartel funded sex parties of DEA agents -- USA Today
Sex parties, cartels and 'significant' risks: DEA agents stung by damning report -- The Guardian

The DEA's Phone Call Database is Bigger Than The NSA's

Hemisphere is not classified - but it was secret for nearly five years. It is run by the Drug Enforcement Administration

DEA Phone Call Database Bigger Than NSA's -- NBC

The federal government has access to a massive database of 25 years of AT&T phone data, NBC News has confirmed, as part of a secret program in which phone company employees work alongside local and federal law enforcement agents to track the phone calls of suspected drug dealers.

As first reported by the New York Times, the Hemisphere Project is at least six years old and has access to the data from every call coming through an AT&T switchboard back to 1987. The pool grows by billions of calls a day, includes information on the location of callers, and is larger than the controversial database maintained by the NSA, which goes back five years.

As part of the Hemisphere program, the government is currently paying AT&T to embed a handful of phone company employees with drug task forces of local police and DEA agents in Atlanta, Houston and Los Angeles.

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More News On The DEA's Phone Database

REVEALED: Secret program gives federal agents nearly instant access to BILLIONS of AT&T phone records without a court order -- Daily Mail
U.S. drug agents mine AT&T phone records dating back decades -- UPI
Drug Agents Use Vast Phone Trove, Eclipsing N.S.A.’s -- New York Times
U.S. drug agents grab more data than NSA; ‘profound privacy concerns,’ ACLU says -- Washington Times
US drug agency partners with AT&T for access to 'vast database' of call records -- The Guardian
Report: Anti-drug agents involved in phone data spying -- USA Today
DEA Program Puts Phone Company Inside Government Offices -- ABC News
Drug agents reportedly have access to bigger phone database than NSA's -- FOX News
The DEA Pays AT&T for Access to 26 Years of Phone Records -- Atlantic Wire
DEA supplied with access to vast database of AT&T phone records -- CNET
AT&T turns drug informant, handing feds 26 years of phone records -- The Verge
DEA Has Access to Billions of AT&T Phone Call Records -- Mashable

The DEA Has It's On Version Of An NSA Surveillance Program

Exclusive: U.S. Directs Agents To Cover Up Program Used To Investigate Americans -- Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A secretive U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration unit is funneling information from intelligence intercepts, wiretaps, informants and a massive database of telephone records to authorities across the nation to help them launch criminal investigations of Americans.

Although these cases rarely involve national security issues, documents reviewed by Reuters show that law enforcement agents have been directed to conceal how such investigations truly begin - not only from defense lawyers but also sometimes from prosecutors and judges.

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More News On The DEA's Surveillance Program

The NSA is giving your phone records to the DEA. And the DEA is covering it up. -- Washington Post
Report: DEA unit hid use of intelligence database in criminal investigations -- The Hill
DEA reportedly covering up its use of NSA surveillance data to prosecute Americans -- The Verge
The DEA Is Spying on Us and Showing Other Agencies How to Cover It Up -- The Gawker
Secret DEA Surveillance Program Is Designed to Cover Itself Up -- The Atlantic
How DEA program differs from recent NSA revelations -- Chicago Tribune/Reuters
More Surveillance Abuse Exposed! Special DEA Unit Is Spying On Americans And Covering It Up -- Rick Ungar, Forbes

Hondurans Protest At DEA Presence In Fatal Shooting

An American soldier in Honduras. Drug agents there are using military-style counterinsurgency efforts against drug trafficking. Tomas Munita for The New York Times

Hondurans Protest At DEA Role In Fatal Shootings -- The Guardian

US agents were on helicopter with Honduran police officers when four people were shot dead on Patuca river.

Protesters in Honduras's Mosquito Coast region have burned down government offices and demanded that the US Drug Enforcement Administration leave the area, after it emerged some of its agents were involved in an anti-drug operation in which police killed four innocent people, including two pregnant women.

The DEA confirmed on Wednesday that some of its agents were on a US-owned helicopter with Honduran police officers when the shooting happened last Friday on the Patuca river, in north-east Honduras.

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More News On Honduran Protests On The Presence of DEA Agents In Fatal Shootings

U.S. Says No D.E.A. Agents Took Part in Honduran Shootout -- New York Times
DEA admits to role in deadly Honduras helicopter shooting -- CBS/AP
U.S. Insists Its Anti-Drug Agents Did Not Fire on Innocent Hondurans -- Time
U.S. denies agents fired on Hondurans -- UPI
Probe underway in remote area of Honduras after gunfight involving U.S. drug agents -- Washington Post
Honduras protest over shootings -- BBC
Honduran area demands DEA leave after shooting -- CBS
Hondurans Demand DEA Leave After Shooting -- ABC News/AP
D.E.A.’s Agents Join Counternarcotics Efforts in Honduras -- New York Times

D.E.A. Armed Commando Squads Now Deployed In Central American And Caribbean Cations

D.E.A. Squads Extend Reach of Drug War -- New York Times

WASHINGTON — Late on a moonless night last March, a plane smuggling nearly half a ton of cocaine touched down at a remote airstrip in Honduras. A heavily armed ground crew was waiting for it — as were Honduran security forces. After a 20-minute firefight, a Honduran officer was wounded and two drug traffickers lay dead.

Several news outlets briefly reported the episode, mentioning that a Honduran official said the United States Drug Enforcement Administration had provided support. But none of the reports included a striking detail: that support consisted of an elite detachment of military-trained D.E.A. special agents who joined in the shootout, according to a person familiar with the episode.

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Update: U.S. squads battle Central American drug cartels -- Tampa.com

My Comment: So the DEA now has 5 trained commando squads that are deployed and active in a number of Central American and Caribbean nations. Only 5 to stop the flood of drugs .... hmmmm .... good luck.

DEA Now A Global Intelligence Organization

Secret Role Of US Drug-Fighters -- The Australian

THE US Drug Enforcement Administration has grown into a global intelligence and diplomatic body.

And its reach extends far beyond narcotics, leaked cables reveal

The DEA's operations have become so expansive that the agency has had to fend off struggling foreign leaders who want to use it against their enemies.

One cable from August last year reported that Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli sent an urgent message to the US ambassador asking the DEA to go after his political rivals. "I need help with tapping phones," the President said, according to The New York Times yesterday.

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More News On The Growing Intelligence Role Of The DEA

Cables Portray Expanded Reach of Drug Agency -- New York Times
US cables show global drug, political links -- The Age
DEA reach goes global, beyond drugs: report -- AFP
Panama leader wanted to wire-tap rivals: WikiLeaks -- ABC News Online (Australia)
Wikileaks reveals pressure on US drug wiretapping -- BBC
Panama president denies alleged phone tap request -- AP
Panama president wanted to wiretap rivals: WikiLeaks -- Reuters
WikiLeaks details US drug agency's relations with allies: Report -- Sify News
Not Just Drugs Anymore: DEA Now a Vast, Global Spy -- Newser