Mexico's most-wanted: A guide to the drug cartels

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Mexico registered more than 200,000 murders from January 2007 to December 2016, according to government records. More than 30,000 people are classified as having disappeared in that same timeframe

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Victims are sometimes hung from bridges or dissolved in barrels of acid

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The legalisation of marijuana in parts of the US has driven Mexico’s cartels to push harder drugs like methamphetamine, heroin, and fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid.

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Activists and journalists are routinely murdered, while corruption and impunity remain rampant.

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The government succeeded in capturing or killing the leaders of the biggest cartels, but this led to many smaller and often more violent gangs springing up in their place.

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Having outfought several rival groups, the Sinaloa cartel dominates much of north-west Mexico and makes billions of dollars from trafficking illicit narcotics to the United States, Europe and Asia.

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Sinaloa’s strongest competitor is its former armed wing, the Jalisco New Generation cartel