The Tijuana Cartel is based in one of the most strategically important border towns in Mexico

The Tijuana Cartel is based in one of the most strategically important border towns in Mexico, and continues to export drugs even after being weakened from a brutal internal war during 2009. Due to infighting, arrests and deaths of some of its top members, the Tijuana Cartel is a shell of what it was in the 1990s and early 2000s when it was considered one of the most potent and violent criminal organizations in Mexico. After the arrest or assassination of its founding members, the Arellano Félix clan, the cartel is now headed by Fernando Sánchez Arellano, a nephew of the Arellano Félix brothers who once bloodied Mexico and southern California with their brutish and authoritarian style. With the powerful Sinaloa Cartel moving into Tijuana in force, Sánchez Arellano is struggling to keep a grip on this lucrative drug and human trafficking corridor."

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