List of Mexican cartels
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Headquarters of different drug cartels in Mexico
This is a list of Mexican cartels, organizations identified as Mexico-based crime groups involved in drug trafficking, arms trafficking, human trafficking, murder, money laundering, and extortion.[1]
Mexican drug cartels operating in the United States in 2015
List of drug cartels
Active cartels
- Caborca Cartel
- Cártel de Tláhuac
- Cártel del Noreste
- Chiapas–Guatemala Cartel
- Fuerza Anti-Unión
- Gente Nueva[a]
- Gulf Cartel
- Guerreros Unidos
- Jalisco New Generation Cartel
- Juárez Cartel
- La Barredora
- La Familia Michoacana
- La Nueva Familia Michoacana
- La Unión Tepito
- Los Mazatlecos[b]
- Los Talibanes
- Nueva Plaza Cartel
- Sangre Nueva Zeta
- Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel
- Sinaloa Cartel
- Tijuana Cartel
- Zetas Vieja Escuela[2][3]
Defunct cartels
- Beltrán-Leyva Organization
- Colima Cartel
- Guadalajara Cartel
- Independent Cartel of Acapulco
- Knights Templar Cartel
- Los Negros
- Los Zetas
- Milenio Cartel
- Oaxaca Cartel
- Sonora Cartel
- South Pacific Cartel
See also
- 2009 Mexico most-wanted drug lords
- Corruption in Mexico
- Drug cartels operating in the United States
- Human trafficking in Mexico and human trafficking in Texas
- Illegal drug trade
- List of criminal gangs in Brazil
- List of Hispanic-American gangs
- List of massacres in Mexico
- List of Mexican drug cartel figures
- Massacres in the Mexican drug war
- Mexican Mafia
- Missing persons in Mexico
- Organized crime in Mexico
- People murdered by Mexican drug cartels
- Smuggling of firearms into Mexico
- World War II and opium cultivation for morphine near Culiacán
Notes
References
- ^ Mexico: Organized Crime and Drug Trafficking Organizations (Report). Congressional Research Service. Retrieved February 27, 2026.
- ^ "Mexico's drug war: Who are the main cartels?". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved February 27, 2026.
- ^ "Profiles of Mexico's Seven Major Drug Trafficking Organizations". Combating Terrorism Center at West Point. United States Military Academy. Retrieved February 27, 2026.