" EL CHAPO " WINNING DRUG WAR IN JUAREZ, " EL CHAPO YA CONTROLA LA PLAZA DE CD JUAREZ

Juarez - (AP) - After a two-year battle that has killed more than 5,000 people, Mexico's most powerful kingpin now controls the coveted trafficking routes through Juarez. That conclusion by U.S. intelligence adds to evidence that Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's Sinaloa cartel is winning Mexico's drug war.
The assessment was made based on information from confidential informants with direct ties to Mexican drug gangs and other intelligence, said a U.S. federal agent who sometimes works undercover, insisting on anonymity because of his role in ongoing drug investigations.
The agent told The Associated Press those sources have led U.S. authorities to believe that the Sinaloa cartel has edged out the rival Juarez gang for control over trafficking routes through Juarez, ground zero in the drug war. Other officials corroborated pieces of the assessment.
Andrea Simmons, an FBI spokeswoman in El Paso, confirmed that the majority of drug loads arriving from Juarez now belong to Guzman. And Mexican Federal Police Chief Facundo Rosas told the AP that while authorities are still working to confirm the U.S. assessment, "These are valid theories." "If you control the city, you control the drugs," the federal agent said. "And it appears to be Chapo." The twin border cities of Juarez and El Paso, Texas, are a primary crossing point for drugs smuggled into the United States. Control of drug routes in Chihuahua, the state along New Mexico and West Texas where Juarez is located, is vital to Guzman's efforts to grow his massive drug cartel's operations. Already, the Sinaloa cartel is the world's largest, and Guzman last year made Forbes magazine's list of the world's top billionaires. His cartel moved in on the city in 2008 in an attempt to wrest it from the Juarez cartel led by Vicente Carrillo Fuentes. The fighting prompted Mexican President Felipe Calderon to send thousands of army troops to the city, but the fighting has killed more than 5,000 people, making Juarez one of the world's deadliest cities. A Guzman victory may not immediately halt the gang warfare in Juarez's streets. But those gangs "are fighting over crumbs. They're fighting over the retail sales in Juarez," Ciudad Juarez Mayor Jose Reyes Ferriz told the AP. And the U.S. agent warned that Carrillo Fuentes is unlikely to give up the fight entirely as long as he is alive and free.
The Sinaloa cartel has grown steadily more powerful since Guzman escaped from a Mexican federal prison a decade ago by hiding in a laundry truck, even as successive Mexican governments - including that of Calderon - have faced accusations that they have not pursued the Sinaloa cartel as aggressively as other gangs. "We've certainly seen them get stronger," said a U.S. law enforcement official in Mexico, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of security reasons. The Sinaloa cartel is "the most powerful drug trafficking organization in the world." Several of Guzman's rival kingpins have been taken down by President Felipe Calderon's intensified, military-led crackdown on drug trafficking, including Arturo Beltran Leyva, who was killed in a shootout with Mexican marines in December, a year after his gang is believed to have split with the Sinaloa cartel. The Sinaloa cartel has been steadily moving in on the lucrative smuggling routes into the United States, which consumes more drugs than any other country. Most recently, officials and experts believe the cartel is trying to take over of a series of small farming towns east of Juarez. The towns, across the Rio Grande from the Texas farming towns of Fabens and Fort Hancock, had long been under the control of the Juarez cartel and were historically used as staging areas for drug smugglers. But the arrests or killings of local smugglers have left it vulnerable to attacks by Sinaloa leaders. In Juarez itself, the majority of drug suspects in jail belong to gangs allied with the Juarez cartel. Since August, more than 50 Juarez cartel allies have been arrested in the city, compared to only 18 suspects tied to Guzman's organization. The Juarez-aligned Azteca and La Linea gangs are struggling to maintain their traditional dominance of the city as they fend off constant assaults from the Sinaloa-aligned Killer Artists and Mexicles gangs and from Mexican law enforcement. "The onslaught against the Juarez cartel has been very brutal, not only by the Chapo Guzman cartel but also the military," said Tony Payan, an expert on the Juarez drug war at the University of Texas-El Paso. "I don't think by any means the Juarez cartel is done, but it's a shadow of its former self." Payan said much of the recent violence in Juarez can be attributed to Guzman's men killing off Carrillo loyalists, including "stragglers" who have so far evaded them and continue to deal drugs on Juarez streets. "The killings, they are mostly small retail people," Payan said. "I think they are Aztecas, falling like flies all over the city."

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[barrazasinaloa92]

aki apoyando al chapo y al mayo puro cartel de sinaloa !!!!

[mexicanoputo7]

viva el cartel de sinaloa fuck la pinche linia pero apoyo mas a l chapo que el cartel de juarez que viva sinaloa solamente el chapo ayuda a su jente la lina chinga a su gente i gual que los ratas de los zetas pinches putos

[AFloatingiPadTouch]

Its annoying how high schoolers say that its all about the chapo cartel like dumb ass do you even know what your talking about

[culio54]

@nebulae10 no he wont bcuz the american army will never get involved

[culio54]

@MrCompton90220 hes alot better than the zetas if you dnt know mexico n how it works than you shouldnt be commenting. bout it you just see the american news. theres a reason why mexicans support him. and im not bout to wast my time explaning it to u

[joekelmen]

haha el chapo is the men fuck your country USA burn in hell anyway Muslims approved this me too they killing innocent people kill your self before Taliban strikes again ! they ain't scared of your little army

[garyleothelion7]

El Chapo did'nt fancy paying the CIA there cut of the money on the sale of drugs so now they want him dead .BUT if he pays them then they'll kiss and make up and it will be best friends with the CIA evil scum again..Drugs and Gangsters and the fucken CIA are all Evil scum who don't care who they kill sooner there all dead the better the world would be so fuck these Drug peddling evil murderers who don't care about what there doing to people all over the world.CIA and the DRUG Lords fucken Die.BS

[plomo1nr]

@hawkdaddy64 your a fucking,bitchass

[MrCompton90220]

All you people who are trying to glorify El Chapo are fucking retarded. You think he gives a fuck about u. If he saw u he would probably kill ur stupid ass, and ur retarded enough to support him.  SMDH

[NachoBag123]

@Hulsie The reason is because he well try to KILL ME!!!!!

[Hulsie]

@NachoBag123 I see no reason why not.

[ecoSWAG1]

If America would legalize medicinal marijuana and setup collectives and dispensaries it could keep billions of $ in the country. This would also stop marijuana users to need to deal with drug dealers thus stopping the demand. Cocaine and heroin should be illegal and need to be stopped from coming in the country. Unfortunately the DEA would rather focus their efforts on other BS instead of fighting with Mexico's army against these cartels. Innocent people die everyday because of this.