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Introduction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Everyone in Mexico has heard of the Guadalajara Cartel (Cartel de Guadalajara<\/em> in Spanish), an organization that, from the beginning of the 1980\u2019s and as part of an alleged alliance with high-ranking police officers and politicians, dominated, for almost a decade, the drug market in Mexico. Its omnipresence in our contemporary history is so pervasive that almost no-one has ever questioned the possibility of whether, in fact, it actually existed. Until now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the hegemonic narrative \u2013 first established by police forces in the United States and then picked up by bestsellers, newspapers, academic articles of dubious quality, and, years later, broadcasted around the world by Netflix \u2013 the alleged Guadalajara Cartel was, under the supervision of Sinaloa-born drug trafficker Miguel \u00c1ngel F\u00e9lix Gallardo, the first organization in Mexico capable of controlling cocaine imports and exports, as well as the majority of marijuana production around the country. This is, in more than one sense of the word, the archetypal organization that carried out, knew and controlled everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How a drug-trafficking network that no-one referred to as a cartel during its alleged lifespan became one of the most ubiquitous benchmarks in the history of drug trafficking in Mexico?<\/mark><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

F\u00e9lix Gallardo\u2019s group, according to this narrative, provided the blueprint of its business model and organizational structure to what we now know to be the Sinaloa Cartel, the progeny of the Guadalajara Cartel. The problem with this story, which has permeated throughout public opinion in Mexico and has been subsequently portrayed in series, movies and books, is that, essentially, it is false.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The most recent academic research into the alleged Guadalajara Cartel coincides with the idea that it was actually a much less powerful group than that shown in television series.1<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, it was a quasi-family-run organization that never successfully achieved the vertical integration of its drug production, transportation and marketing processes, nor did it implement well-defined rules for its members or create a hierarchical structure to reach consensual decisions.2<\/a><\/sup> During the period in which the Guadalajara Cartel supposedly existed, very few people referred to this organization using that moniker. This despite the fact that, as we will see later, the concept of cartels was already being used by agencies tasked with tackling drug trafficking to describe similar organizations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The purpose of this article is to examine how a drug-trafficking network that no-one ever referred to as a cartel during its alleged lifespan became one of the most ubiquitous benchmarks in the history of drug trafficking in Mexico. How was this concept created? When did people start talking about the existence of the Guadalajara Cartel? Who was involved in this process? What were their underlying goals?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To answer these questions, this analysis, which is based on archival work undertaken in Mexico and the United States, traces the process through which an amorphous criminal network with no clear leadership structure slowly became a useful work of fiction for the punitive discourse on which the current war against drugs is based.3<\/a><\/sup> This research project presents the history of a genealogy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What was the Guadalajara Cartel?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As is true for the rest of its contemporary organizations, the so-called Guadalajara Cartel was a complex criminal network based on family circles and with no clear leadership structure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miguel \u00c1ngel F\u00e9lix Gallardo played a dominant role (and perhaps a difficult-to-emulate one) in building an as yet unparalleled cocaine distribution channel between Colombia, the Mexican Pacific coast and the eastern seaboard of the United States. It is also true that F\u00e9lix Gallardo and his inner circle successfully managed large fields of marijuana and poppy crops in some states in the north of the country, as well as along the Pacific coastline in Mexico. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As is true for the rest of its contemporary organizations, the so-called Guadalajara Cartel was a complex criminal network based on family circles and with no clear leadership structure.<\/mark><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

However, making the leap from this evidence to affirm that this famous drug trafficker from Sinaloa successfully dominated the processes of producing, transporting and distributing illegal drugs in Mexico is a stretch.4<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Guadalajara Cartel was, in actual fact, a family network that functioned in a variable fashion and changed its modus operandi<\/em> based on the circumstances at the time. Therefore, to execute a specific operation \u2013 for example, exporting numerous kilograms of cocaine from northern Colombia to the south-eastern United States \u2013 they may have needed the help of family members, friends or partners in one or a number of tasks: negotiating with different groups of coca farmers; renting and handling the equipment necessary to transport the drugs on land, by sea or by air; monitoring safe houses and the route the drugs would take; negotiating with (or co-opting) port authorities, customs agents or highway police; organizing small-scale distributors in different cities within the United States, etc. For other types of operations  – murdering a competitor or dealing marijuana in a small city \u2013 the close-knit group of F\u00e9lix Gallardo\u2019s bodyguards was more than up to the task. Everything depended on the complexity of the task at hand, in addition to the fragile and informal agreements (that were constantly being updated) in which myriad state and non-state actors were involved.5<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1989, the DEA tried to map out the major drug trafficking organizations in Mexico. The end result is in stark contrast with what is imagined when referring to the all-powerful Guadalajara Cartel.
The result was a total of 62 different leaderships structures, in different regions of the country .<\/mark><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) \u2014the police institution in the United States tasked with combatting drugs both within and outside the country\u2019s borders –  understood the plasticity and volatility of F\u00e9lix Gallardo\u2019s network. In internal documents, it refers to drug traffickers of that time – such as Caro Quintero, Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo, Jorge Favela Escoboso, Juan Esparragosa Moreno or Jaime Herrera Nevares – classifying them as barely being partners <\/em>of F\u00e9lix Gallardo, never mind subordinates. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

They all had their own retinues of faithful supporters and forged implicit and explicit alliances. Some of them met  – almost always without success \u2013 to divide up activities, territories and merchandise; others met in churches or at ranches to become the godfathers of the others\u2019 children; some gave orders to kill rivals with a much greater degree of cruelty than was strictly necessary; only a very small number survived, outside the confines prison, to see the beginning of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1989, the DEA tried to map out the major drug trafficking organizations in Mexico through \u201csignificant operations along the south-eastern border of the United States\u201d. The end result can be seen in the following image and is in stark contrast with the map imagined by Netflix when referring to the all-powerful Guadalajara Cartel. In this map a total of 62 different leaderships structures in different regions of the country are identified. In terms of F\u00e9lix Gallardo, only significant operations in four states in Mexico are attributed to him – Sonora, Jalisco, Sinaloa and Baja California – while in the rest of the country there are drug production and distribution networks that sometimes work together, sometimes ignore one another, and sometimes fight amongst themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Image 1. DEA, Office of Intelligence, SEO Operation Columbus<\/em> 1989. (DEA sensitive).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In our research, we found that the internal reports drafted by the DEA between 1981 and 1986 at its offices in Mexico City, Guadalajara and Hermosillo not only did not use the cartel concept to refer to F\u00e9lix Gallardo\u2019s organization, nor did its descriptions refer to the existence of an organization capable of functioning vertically. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To give an example: in March 1984, at precisely the alleged peak of the network run by F\u00e9lix Gallardo, the then head of the DEA in Guadalajara, James H. Kuykendall, wrote a report that referred to marijuana crops in the north of Zacatecas. According to Kuykendall, in the north of that state alone, there were between 18 and 20 \u201cloosely related groups\u201d operating.6<\/a><\/sup> Some territories belonged to Ernesto Fonseca and to the group we now link to the Guadalajara Cartel; others did not. Some were protected by a commander in the DFS; others by local police; others by the army; and yet others by independent criminals. There were disputes, competition and feuds; more or less the same is true today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Internal reports drafted by the DEA between 1981 and 1986 at its offices in Mexico City, Guadalajara and Hermosillo not only did not use the cartel concept to refer to F\u00e9lix Gallardo\u2019s organization, nor did its descriptions refer to the existence of an organization capable of functioning vertically.<\/mark><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Kuykendall\u2019s report is the norm, not the exception. In practically none of the hundreds of documents relating to Operation Leyenda<\/em> \u2014 stemming from the investigation into the murder of DEA agent Enrique Camarena and spanning the period comprising 1986 to 1992\u2014 one can find references to the existence of the Guadalajara Cartel. This is particularly relevant as the documents from Operation Leyenda<\/em> include statements made by protected witnesses, court proceedings and intelligence reports, i.e., they not only show us the dominate discourse within the police sphere, but also that within the public sphere. In these documents, as in almost all documents from that time, cartels did not exist. The descriptions used included family networks, drug rings, drug syndicates, consortium of traffickers, dealers, mafias, and other similar terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The question remains as to how and when the idea of the existence of the Guadalajara Cartel began to circulate. Which actors were involved in this process of dissemination? And, above all, what were their reasons for doing so? The following section attempts to find answers to these questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the beginning was the DEA<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The first time that the concept of cartels was publicly used to refer to a drug trafficking group and not to an agreement between like-minded companies to avoid mutual competition <\/em>\u2014 the original meaning of the word\u2014 was in 1977 in the United States Congress.7<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first time that the concept of cartels was publicly used to refer to a drug trafficking group and not to an agreement between like-minded companies to avoid mutual competition <\/em>\u2014 the original meaning of the word\u2014 was in 1977 in the United States Congress.<\/mark><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In that year, the then head of the DEA, Peter B. Bensinger, used, during two different appearances before a Senate Committee, the idea of a worldwide drug cartel<\/em> to refer to a drug trafficking organization based in Mexico, specifically the organization run by Alberto Sicilia Falc\u00f3n, a Cuban drug trafficker and the alleged exporter of \u201ctons of marijuana\u201d from Mexico to the United States.8<\/a><\/sup> Sicilia Falc\u00f3n had just been captured thanks to information provided by the DEA, and Bensinger was boasting in front of the US Senate \u2013 using more than exaggerated terms \u2013 about the alleged lengths that his agency had gone to in order to detain this drug trafficker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The context in which Bensinger decided to use the word is not trivial, and it is important to explain it in order to better comprehend the political economy of the war on drugs: during those months, the DEA had been widely criticized for its inability to stop the flow of heroin entering the United States. Numerous voices were clamoring for the anti-drug agency to be immediately restructured, while others, were vying for it to be disbanded altogether. The most prominent voice was that of the recently elected President of the United States of America, Carter, with whom the DEA had no sympathies whatsoever. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Secondly,  was US Customs, a long-standing nemesis of the DEA, which was seeking to recover the authority and human resources lost when the DEA was created in 1973.9<\/a><\/sup> Finally, it is important to highlight that, although only temporarily, the issue of drugs had changed as a priority public issue. According to a Gallup poll at the time, only 1% of the population believed narcotics to be the most pressing challenge facing the United States.10<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the very beginning of the 1980\u2019s, the concept began to be used by bureaucrats within the DEA or the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), who, without much media scrutiny or criticism, were quoted or paraphrased in widely circulated newspapers and magazines.<\/mark><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Despite the fact that after the aforementioned hearings the term cartel began to be used more frequently to refer to drug trafficking, it is fair to say that the concept did not appear to have been widely accepted. With only a few exceptions, and over the coming months, the US media barely picked up on it.11<\/a><\/sup> Bensinger did not appear to use it again in public. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is at the very beginning of the 1980\u2019s when the concept of cartels began to be used within the public sphere. This was not in reference to the group run by Sicilia Falc\u00f3n, but rather to describe Colombian organizations who would become a key part of coordinating the cocaine shipments that arrived along the coast of Florida on a daily basis.12<\/a><\/sup> The concept began to be used by bureaucrats within the DEA or the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), who, without much media scrutiny or criticism, were quoted or paraphrased in widely circulated newspapers and magazines.13<\/a><\/sup> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Little by little, and over a number of years, the concepts of drug syndicates and drug rings were slowly replaced in official publications, speeches, court processes and television programs.<\/mark><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In 1982, William French Smith, the then attorney general of the United States, talked about the existence of cartels in a much more matter-of-fact tone, focusing on the threat they posed to US society.14<\/a><\/sup> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is how, little by little, and over a number of years, the concepts of drug syndicates and drug rings were slowly replaced in official publications, speeches, court processes and television programs.15<\/a><\/sup> From this process was born the idea of the Cali Cartel, the Medellin Cartel, and the figure of Pablo Escobar as the lord and master of Colombia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Creation of the Guadalajara Cartel<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The first public reference of the Guadalajara Cartel appears in an article published in Newsweek magazine in 1985.16<\/a><\/sup> One of the authors of that article, journalist Elaine Shannon, had used the cartel concept in 1981 in a report based on police sources regarding drug trafficking in Miami.17<\/a><\/sup> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shannon is also the author of the book entitled Desperados <\/em>(1988), an account of the DEA\u2019s official version of the murder of Camarena in Mexico that played a relevant role in disseminating not only the concept of the Guadalajara Cartel but also in characterizing what would happen to its members and structure in the future.18<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Mexico, neither Exc\u00e9lsior<\/em>, nor Siglo de Torre\u00f3n<\/em>, El Universal<\/em> or El Informador<\/em> made any mention of the existence of the cartel when covering the arrest of F\u00e9lix Gallardo on the front pages of their newspapers.<\/mark><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The arrest of Miguel \u00c1ngel F\u00e9lix Gallardo in Guadalajara on the evening of April 9, 1989, is a good moment to review the language being used at that time. The Spanish press, for example, stated that \u201cthe super drug lord\u201d was an \u201cintermediary for the Medellin Cartel\u201d.19<\/a><\/sup> In Mexico, neither Exc\u00e9lsior<\/em>, nor Siglo de Torre\u00f3n<\/em>, El Universal<\/em> or El Informador<\/em> made any mention of the existence of the cartel despite covering the arrest of F\u00e9lix Gallardo on the front pages of their newspapers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only La Jornada<\/em>, in two articles, quoting Shannon\u2019s book, mentioned the Guadalajara Cartel. In one of these articles, for example, it states that \u201caccording to an American journalist, Elaine Shannon, in her book Desperado<\/em> (sic.), the number one drug trafficking ring in Mexico was as powerful as the Medell\u00edn Cartel\u201d. Later in the article, it says: \u201caccording to Shannon, the GuadalajaraCartel was composed of Rafael Caro Quintero, Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo, Miguel \u00c1ngel F\u00e9lix Gallardo, Juan Ram\u00f3n Mata Ballesteros, Juan Jos\u00e9 Quintero Pay\u00e1n and Jos\u00e9 Contreras Sub\u00edas, all of whom have been detained, as well as by Emilio Quintero Pay\u00e1n and Manuel Salcido Uzeta, who are still at large\u201d.20<\/a><\/sup> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Complicating the issue even further, the same article published statements made by Deputy Attorney General Javier Coello Trejo, for whom \u201cthe drug trafficker is a member of the Medellin Cartel<\/em> (in italics in the original document)\u201d.21<\/a><\/sup> Let us imagine an overwhelmed reader who, after reading the article, barely understood anything about the identity of F\u00e9lix Gallardo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What does the arrest of F\u00e9lix Gallardo tell us about the use of the idea of the Guadalajara Cartel? Firstly, it shows us that, in Mexico, the use of this concept was, at the end of the 1980\u2019s, almost nonexistent. Secondly, of the few times that it was used, it was to quote Shannon\u2019s book. Finally, it demonstrates that it was Shannon\u2019s characterization of this criminal organization that ended up prevailing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Dissemination of a Concept<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After the publication of Shannon\u2019s book, in 1990, NBC produced a six-hour series that portrayed the \u201ctrue\u201d story of the Camarena case. It was called Drug Wars: The Camarena Story,<\/em> and its executive producer was the one and only producer of Miami Vice<\/em>, the US television series famous for its addiction to luxury cars and punitive discourse. A precursor to Traffic <\/em>(2000) and dozens of other similar movies and series, Drug Wars: The Camarena Story<\/em> outlines a narrative in which F\u00e9lix Gallardo\u2019s group is omnipresent and all powerful in a country that, based on the images used in the series, seems to be quite close to a hell on Earth. On both the small and big screens, the notion of the Guadalajara Cartel was here to stay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1991, the idea of the Guadalajara Cartel emerged in academic discourse.<\/mark><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

However, another element was missing. In 1991, the idea of the Guadalajara Cartel emerged in academic discourse. It did so with much pomp and circumstance in one of the most quoted academic articles back then and one that is \u2013 still \u2013 used as a frequent reference for this issue. This article is entitled Drug lords and narco-corruption: The players change but the game continues <\/em>and waswritten by a political scientist at the University of New Mexico, Peter Lupsha. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a text full of common ground, and whose opening line sets the tone for the rest of the article: \u201cIt is impossible to identify a beginning date for corruption in Mexico, for it is as eternal as the Aztec sun<\/em>\u201d.22<\/a><\/sup> Despite the trivialization of \u201cnarco-corruption\u201d in Mexico (or precisely because of it), Lupsha\u2019s text became an obligatory reference for those interested in the topic. The final part of the article deals with the links between the Mexican police and Miguel \u00c1ngel F\u00e9lix Gallardo\u2019s group. Far from offering a painstakingly meticulous investigation based on primary sources, the characterization of this relationship is the same as that proposed by Shannon, whose book, Desperados,<\/em> is quoted six times. Thanks to Lupsha\u2019s contributions, the notion of the Guadalajara Cartel gained the credibility it needed to be freely discussed within academic forums and journals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1993, as part of the media coverage of the assassination of the Mexican cardinal and bishop of Guadalajara, Juan Posadas Ocampo, at least five different newspapers began to use the terms Guadalajara Cartel, Sinaloa Cartel and Ju\u00e1rez Cartel (Cartel de Guadalajara, Cartel de Sinaloa <\/em>and Cartel de Ju\u00e1rez<\/em>).<\/mark><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In Mexico, the process was more or less clear and direct: it was a group of Mexican journalists who, based on Shannon\u2019s book and articles published in US newspapers or magazines, began to use the notion of the Guadalajara Cartel. It was only in 1992 when it began to be used more frequently as a result of Mexican media outlets following the trials held in California of those accused of murdering Camarena. In 1993, as part of the media coverage of the assassination of the Mexican cardinal and bishop of Guadalajara, Juan Posadas Ocampo, at least five different newspapers began to use the terms Guadalajara Cartel, Sinaloa Cartel and Ju\u00e1rez Cartel (Cartel de Guadalajara, Cartel de Sinaloa <\/em>and Cartel de Ju\u00e1rez<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Within the official discourse of the Mexican State, i.e., statements made by government officials, no reference is made regarding the existence of the Guadalajara Cartel. This comes as no surprise: its use would have given rise to the supposition that, although only indirectly, there was an acceptance of the US discourse. It was not until 1994 when the annual reports published by the PGR (General Attorney\u2019s Office) began to mention cartels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Within the official discourse of the Mexican State, the first mention of the idea of a drug cartel was not made about the Guadalajara Cartel, but rather about the alleged Ju\u00e1rez Cartel.
This reference dates back to 1992 in a court ruling made by a district judge in Hermosillo.<\/mark><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Counterintuitively, our research found that the first mention of the idea of a drug cartel operating in Mexico was not made about the Guadalajara Cartel, but rather about the alleged Ju\u00e1rez Cartel. This reference dates back to 1992 in a court ruling made by a district judge in Hermosillo.23<\/a><\/sup> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This discovery is not a minor one: unlike what happened with the notion of the Guadalajara Cartel, which was clearly coined in the United States, the notion of the Ju\u00e1rez Cartel appears to originate in Mexico.24<\/a><\/sup> The examination and analysis of this event and how the term ended up within the Mexican justice system is, however, the topic for another article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conclusions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This goal of this research is not to trivialize the drug market in Mexico: in fact, the opposite is true. Nor does it refute that, at specific times in the country\u2019s contemporary history, drug trafficking has been underpinned by structures with high degrees of hierarchization and centralization. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having said that, this article presents the thesis that the use of the concept of cartels, at least when referring to the organization allegedly spearheaded by Miguel \u00c1ngel F\u00e9lix Gallardo in the 1980\u2019s, is, at the very least, inaccurate. Furthermore, it presents at least two other findings. On the one hand, that the Guadalajara Cartel is a concept that originated in the United States, was disseminated by a journalist with close ties to the DEA and took a long time to gain traction in Mexico. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For its dissemination, it was of fundamental importance that an American academic picked up on it and for a journalist to publish a book that was widely read in Mexico. On the other hand, that the notion of the Guadalajara Cartel was used to a very limited or non-existent extent during the alleged existence of the organization. This, despite that fact that the concept already existed \u2013 from at least 1977\u2014 relating to drug trafficking in Mexico and, later, to describe Colombian organizations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our research focuses on opening up a new avenue of investigation regarding the role of language in the development of anti-drug trafficking policies in Mexico and the United States. The concept of cartels is just one of many that have worsened the securitization of the war on drugs in Latin America. There are many more aspects whose origins, use, dissemination and abuse can and must be traced back in order to understand who wins and who loses the war on drugs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Notes<\/h2>\n\n\n
  1. Benjamin T. Smith, The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade<\/em> (London: Ebury Press, 2021); Jack Pannell, \u201c\u2018Cartels\u2019 in Mexico: The Origins of a Categorization\u201d (Master\u2019s Thesis, University of Oxford, 2020); Luis Astorga, Drogas sin fronteras<\/em> (Mexico City: Grijalbo, 2003); Diego Enrique Osorno, El c\u00e1rtel de Sinaloa: Una historia del uso pol\u00edtico del narco<\/em> (Mexico City: Grijalbo, 2009). \u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li>
  2. For further discussion regarding the architecture of drug trafficking groups in Latin America, with a special focus on Colombians, see: Michael Kenney, \u201cThe Architecture of Drug Trafficking: Network Forms of Organization in the Colombian Cocaine Trade\u201d, Global Crime<\/em> 8, No. 3 (2007): 233\u201359. For a comparative discussion, read: Federico Varese, \u201cThe Structure and the Content of Criminal Connections: The Russian Mafia in Italy\u201d, European Sociological Review<\/em> 29, No. 5 (2013): 899\u2013909. \u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li>
  3. It was Oswaldo Zavala who, based on literary analysis, has most worked on creating the concept of a \u201cCartel\u201d. See: Oswaldo Zavala, Los c\u00e1rteles no existen: Narcotr\u00e1fico y cultura en M\u00e9xico<\/em> (Mexico City: Malpaso, 2018). \u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li>
  4. For an example of this narrative within the academic sphere: Peter A. Lupsha, \u201cDrug Lords and Narco-Corruption: The Players Change but the Game Continues\u201d, Crime, Law & Social Change<\/em> 16 (1991): 41\u201358. For an example with the sphere of journalism: Anabel Hern\u00e1ndez, Los Se\u00f1ores del Narco<\/em> (Mexico City: Grijalbo, 2010). \u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li>
  5. Smith, The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade<\/em>, Chapter 9. \u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li>
  6. James H. Kuykendall, \u201cDEA Report of Investigation\u201d, March 12, 1984. \u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li>
  7. Although not frequently used, we found references to \u201ccriminal cartels\u201d as far back as the 1960\u2019s. For example: Harry J. Anslinger and Will Oursler, The Murderers: The Story of the Narcotic Gangs<\/em> (New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1962), 17. \u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li>
  8. DEA Administrator Peter B. Bensinger, \u201cHearing before the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Government Operations, United States Senate, Ninety-Fifth Congress, January 12, 1977 (Illicit Traffic in Weapons and Drugs across the United States-Mexican Border)\u201d (1977). \u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li>
  9. Patricia Rachal, Federal Narcotics Enforcement: Reorganization and Reform<\/em> (Boston: Auburn House Publishing Company, 1982). \u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li>
  10. David Musto and Pamela Korsmeyer, The Quest for Drug Control: Politics and Federal Policy in a Period of Increasing Substance Abuse (1963-1981)<\/em> (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002), 144. \u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li>
  11. John H. Averill, \u201cProbers Told of Increase in Guns for Drugs: Some of Smuggled Arms May Be Going to Latin Terrorists\u201d, Los Angeles Times<\/em>, January 13, 1977; Laurie Becklund, \u201cMexican Connection: How Agent\u2019s Felled Drug King\u2019s Empire\u201d, Los Angeles Times<\/em>, July 9, 1978. \u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li>
  12. Robert Pear, \u201c155 Indicted as Two-Year Federal Drug Inquiry Ends\u201d, The New York Times<\/em>, March 13, 1981. \u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li>
  13. Melinda Beck y Elaine Shannon, \u201cA new attack on Drugs\u201d, Newsweek<\/em>, July 20, 1981; U.S. News & World Report, \u201cWhy the FBI Uses Undercover Agents\u201d, U.S. News & World Report<\/em>, August 16, 1982. \u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li>
  14. William French Smith, \u201cRemarks of the Attorney General: Ceremony to announce President Reagan\u2019s Program to Combat Drug Trafficking and Organized Crime\u201d, October 14, 1982. \u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li>
  15. For example: William H. Webster, \u201cFederal Bureau of Investigation\u201d (Attorney General Annual Report, 1984), 40; Lawn, \u201cDrug Enforcement Administration\u201d (Annual Attorney General Report, 1986), 48. \u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li>
  16. Angus Demming and Elaine Shannon, \u201cHas Mexico Matched Up on Drugs\u201d, Newsweek<\/em>, December 1985. \u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li>
  17. Beck and Shannon, \u201cA new attack on Drugs\u201d. \u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li>
  18. Elaine Shannon, Desperados: Latin Drug Lords, U.S. Lawmen, and the war America Can\u2019t Win<\/em> (New York: Viking, 1988). \u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li>
  19. Agencies, “Detained in Mexico, a ‘super drug lord’ (\u201cDetenido en M\u00e9xico, un \u2018supercapo\u2019 del narcotr\u00e1fico<\/em>\u201d), El Pa\u00eds<\/em>, April 10, 1989. \u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li>
  20. Clara Guadalupe Garc\u00eda and Luis Alberto Rodr\u00edguez, “Felix Gallardo was a member of the Medellin Cartel: Coello Trejo” (\u201cF\u00e9lix Gallardo Integraba el cartel de Medellin: Coello Trejo\u201d<\/em>),La Jornada<\/em>, April 11, 1989. \u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li>
  21. Clara Guadalupe Garc\u00eda and Luis Alberto Rodr\u00edguez, “Felix Gallardo was a member of the Medellin Cartel: Coello Trejo” (\u201cF\u00e9lix Gallardo Integraba el cartel de Medellin: Coello Trejo\u201d<\/em>),La Jornada<\/em>, April 11, 1989. \u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li>
  22. Lupsha, \u201cDrug Lords and Narco-Corruption: The Players Change but the Game Continues\u201d, 41. \u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li>
  23. Rafael Medina Cruz, “Discovery of ‘major bribes made to authorities'” (\u201cSe Descubren \u2018Fuertes Sobornos a Autoridades\u2019\u201d<\/em>),Exc\u00e9lsior<\/em>, September 22, 1992. \u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li>
  24. Pannell, \u201c\u2018Cartels\u2019 in Mexico: The Origins of a Categorization\u201d, 2020. \u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li><\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Introduction Everyone in Mexico has heard of the Guadalajara Cartel (Cartel de Guadalajara in Spanish), an organization that, from the beginning of the 1980\u2019s and as part of an alleged alliance with high-ranking police officers and politicians, dominated, for almost a decade, the drug market in Mexico. Its omnipresence in our contemporary history is so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":25928,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_molongui_author":["user-155","user-257"],"footnotes":"[{\"content\":\"Benjamin T. Smith, The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade<\/em> (London: Ebury Press, 2021); Jack Pannell, \u201c\u2018Cartels\u2019 in Mexico: The Origins of a Categorization\u201d (Master\u2019s Thesis, University of Oxford, 2020); Luis Astorga, Drogas sin fronteras<\/em> (Mexico City: Grijalbo, 2003); Diego Enrique Osorno, El c\u00e1rtel de Sinaloa: Una historia del uso pol\u00edtico del narco<\/em> (Mexico City: Grijalbo, 2009).\",\"id\":\"noria-2247\"},{\"content\":\"For further discussion regarding the architecture of drug trafficking groups in Latin America, with a special focus on Colombians, see: Michael Kenney, \u201cThe Architecture of Drug Trafficking: Network Forms of Organization in the Colombian Cocaine Trade\u201d, Global Crime<\/em> 8, No. 3 (2007): 233\u201359. For a comparative discussion, read: Federico Varese, \u201cThe Structure and the Content of Criminal Connections: The Russian Mafia in Italy\u201d, European Sociological Review<\/em> 29, No. 5 (2013): 899\u2013909.\",\"id\":\"noria-3039\"},{\"content\":\"It was Oswaldo Zavala who, based on literary analysis, has most worked on creating the concept of a \u201cCartel\u201d. See: Oswaldo Zavala, Los c\u00e1rteles no existen: Narcotr\u00e1fico y cultura en M\u00e9xico<\/em> (Mexico City: Malpaso, 2018).\",\"id\":\"noria-4727\"},{\"content\":\"For an example of this narrative within the academic sphere: Peter A. Lupsha, \u201cDrug Lords and Narco-Corruption: The Players Change but the Game Continues\u201d, Crime, Law & Social Change<\/em> 16 (1991): 41\u201358. For an example with the sphere of journalism: Anabel Hern\u00e1ndez, Los Se\u00f1ores del Narco<\/em> (Mexico City: Grijalbo, 2010).\",\"id\":\"noria-6455\"},{\"content\":\"Smith, The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade<\/em>, Chapter 9.\",\"id\":\"noria-8073\"},{\"content\":\"James H. Kuykendall, \u201cDEA Report of Investigation\u201d, March 12, 1984.\",\"id\":\"noria-11868\"},{\"content\":\"Although not frequently used, we found references to \u201ccriminal cartels\u201d as far back as the 1960\u2019s. For example: Harry J. Anslinger and Will Oursler, The Murderers: The Story of the Narcotic Gangs<\/em> (New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1962), 17.\",\"id\":\"noria-14374\"},{\"content\":\"DEA Administrator Peter B. Bensinger, \u201cHearing before the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Government Operations, United States Senate, Ninety-Fifth Congress, January 12, 1977 (Illicit Traffic in Weapons and Drugs across the United States-Mexican Border)\u201d (1977).\",\"id\":\"noria-15495\"},{\"content\":\"Patricia Rachal, Federal Narcotics Enforcement: Reorganization and Reform<\/em> (Boston: Auburn House Publishing Company, 1982).\",\"id\":\"noria-16962\"},{\"content\":\"David Musto and Pamela Korsmeyer, The Quest for Drug Control: Politics and Federal Policy in a Period of Increasing Substance Abuse (1963-1981)<\/em> (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002), 144.\",\"id\":\"noria-17379\"},{\"content\":\"John H. Averill, \u201cProbers Told of Increase in Guns for Drugs: Some of Smuggled Arms May Be Going to Latin Terrorists\u201d, Los Angeles Times<\/em>, January 13, 1977; Laurie Becklund, \u201cMexican Connection: How Agent\u2019s Felled Drug King\u2019s Empire\u201d, Los Angeles Times<\/em>, July 9, 1978.\",\"id\":\"noria-18337\"},{\"content\":\"Robert Pear, \u201c155 Indicted as Two-Year Federal Drug Inquiry Ends\u201d, The New York Times<\/em>, March 13, 1981.\",\"id\":\"noria-19099\"},{\"content\":\"Melinda Beck y Elaine Shannon, \u201cA new attack on Drugs\u201d, Newsweek<\/em>, July 20, 1981; U.S. News & World Report, \u201cWhy the FBI Uses Undercover Agents\u201d, U.S. News & World Report<\/em>, August 16, 1982.\",\"id\":\"noria-19451\"},{\"content\":\"William French Smith, \u201cRemarks of the Attorney General: Ceremony to announce President Reagan\u2019s Program to Combat Drug Trafficking and Organized Crime\u201d, October 14, 1982.\",\"id\":\"noria-20257\"},{\"content\":\"For example: William H. Webster, \u201cFederal Bureau of Investigation\u201d (Attorney General Annual Report, 1984), 40; Lawn, \u201cDrug Enforcement Administration\u201d (Annual Attorney General Report, 1986), 48.\",\"id\":\"noria-20702\"},{\"content\":\"Angus Demming and Elaine Shannon, \u201cHas Mexico Matched Up on Drugs\u201d, Newsweek<\/em>, December 1985.\",\"id\":\"noria-21318\"},{\"content\":\"Beck and Shannon, \u201cA new attack on Drugs\u201d.\",\"id\":\"noria-21606\"},{\"content\":\"Elaine Shannon, Desperados: Latin Drug Lords, U.S. Lawmen, and the war America Can\u2019t Win<\/em> (New York: Viking, 1988).\",\"id\":\"noria-22053\"},{\"content\":\"Agencies, \\\"Detained in Mexico, a 'super drug lord' (\u201cDetenido en M\u00e9xico, un \u2018supercapo\u2019 del narcotr\u00e1fico<\/em>\u201d), El Pa\u00eds<\/em>, April 10, 1989.\",\"id\":\"noria-22894\"},{\"content\":\"Clara Guadalupe Garc\u00eda and Luis Alberto Rodr\u00edguez, \\\"Felix Gallardo was a member of the Medellin Cartel: Coello Trejo\\\" (\u201cF\u00e9lix Gallardo Integraba el cartel de Medellin: Coello Trejo\u201d<\/em>),La Jornada<\/em>, April 11, 1989.\",\"id\":\"noria-24099\"},{\"content\":\"Clara Guadalupe Garc\u00eda and Luis Alberto Rodr\u00edguez, \\\"Felix Gallardo was a member of the Medellin Cartel: Coello Trejo\\\" (\u201cF\u00e9lix Gallardo Integraba el cartel de Medellin: Coello Trejo\u201d<\/em>),La Jornada<\/em>, April 11, 1989.\",\"id\":\"noria-24645\"},{\"content\":\"Lupsha, \u201cDrug Lords and Narco-Corruption: The Players Change but the Game Continues\u201d, 41.\",\"id\":\"noria-27414\"},{\"content\":\"Rafael Medina Cruz, \\\"Discovery of 'major bribes made to authorities'\\\" (\u201cSe Descubren \u2018Fuertes Sobornos a Autoridades\u2019\u201d<\/em>),Exc\u00e9lsior<\/em>, September 22, 1992.\",\"id\":\"noria-30697\"},{\"content\":\"Pannell, \u201c\u2018Cartels\u2019 in Mexico: The Origins of a Categorization\u201d, 2020.\",\"id\":\"noria-31150\"}]"},"categories":[1],"tags":[44,58,59,60,61,62,48,49,63,54,56,57],"podcast":[],"project":[],"region":[15],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article","tag-cartels","tag-drogas","tag-drug-trafficking","tag-drug-wars","tag-drugs","tag-guadalajara","tag-mexico","tag-mexico-and-central-america-program","tag-netflix","tag-sinaloa","tag-violence","tag-war-on-drugs","region-americas"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Guadalajara Cartel Never Existed - Mexico & Central America<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"When did the word Cartel appear? 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