These 7 Mexican cartels control virtually the entire US drug market by Jeremy Bender and Christopher Woody on Jan 31, 2016, 11:16 AM Virtually the entire illicit US drug market is now controlled by just seven Mexican cartels, according to the DEA's 2015 National Drug Threat Assessment Summary. "Mexican transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) remain the greatest criminal drug threat to the United States; no other group can challenge them in the near term," the DEA reports. In many cases, Mexican TCOs are in the process of taking the place of rival Colombian, Asian, or Dominican distributors throughout most major cities in the United States. The Mexican cartels have also partnered with approximately 20 street gangs throughout the country in order to facilitate distribution and corner market share. http://www.businessinsider.com/only-2-cartels-left-in-mexico-2015-6 We have listed the seven Mexican cartels below. "The cartel situation in Mexico is constantly changing," "When I first started covering this we only had four major cartels and now there are defintely more than 10 groups. " "but then you have other cartels "Narcotics are the biggest black market earner of all. Estimated to be worth more than three hundred billion dollars a year, the global industry has pumped huge resources into criminal empires decade after decade," wrote Ioan Grillo the author of "Gangster Warlords: Drug Dollars, Killing Fields, and the New Politics of Latin America." SEE ALSO: Mexico finally recaptured fugitive drug lord 'El Chapo' Guzmán, but the fight is far from over — here's what could come next Sinaloa cartel  The Sinaloa cartel is generally regarded as the most powerful and wealthiest cartel in Mexico and in the world. The cartel is based in Sinaloa state on Mexico's Pacific coast — a rugged and mountainous area known as the Golden Triangle for its extensive drug cultivation.
 Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán and Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada took leadership of the Sinaloa cartel in the early 1990s (after the disintegration of the Guadalajara cartel). For much of the 1990s and 2000s, the Sinaloa cartel grappled with the Arellano Félix Organization, which controlled the flow of drugs through Tijuana. Though Sinaloa ultimately won out, evidence suggests it benefited from helping the US Drug Enforcement Administration with its war on the Tijuana traffickers.
 Since the late 2000s, the Sinaloa cartel has been predominant among Mexican cartels (fending off bloody challenges from rivals) and in control over much of the drug traffic to the US. In 2013, the DEA said that Guzmán's organization shipped "80% of the heroin, cocaine, marijuana and methamphetamine" flowing to the Chicago region each year, a supply with a value of $3 billion. The DEA's 2015 National Drug Threat Assessment revealed even more extensive control, with only Arizona and the southern half of Texas out of the Sinaloa cartel's grasp.
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