Are Mexico's Lethal Sinaloa and Jalisco Cartels Competing or Collaborating? Jesus Perez Caballero - Insight Crime
go to original November 10, 2015

News outlets in Mexico are reporting contradictory stories about whether the Jalisco and Sinaloa Cartels are friends, enemies or something in between.

Some sources indicate the escape of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman in July, for example, showed how the Jalisco Cartel New Generation (CJNG) - one of Mexico's up-and-coming criminal groups - was involved in the operation that sprung the famous Sinaloa Cartel leader.

Other sources suggest Mexican authorities facilitated Chapo's escape so that the drug lord could establish order in the country's underworld in the face of the CJNG's growing strength.

Meanwhile other events, such as the discovery of a CJNG-operated narco-tunnel in Tijuana, a zone thought to be controlled by the Sinaloa Cartel, point to a brewing conflict.

But the question is the same: are Mexico's two most powerful cartels collaborating or readying themselves for yet another battle in the country's bloody drug war?

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