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Guadalupe Fernández Valencia, alias ‘La Patrona’
Guadalupe Fernández Valencia, known as “La Patrona,” was one of the highest-ranking women in one of the most powerful drug trafficking organizations in the Western Hemisphere: Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel.
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From Drug Dealer to the Sinaloa Cartel’s Highest-Ranking Woman
While US prosecutors began closing in on the Sinaloa Cartel’s inner circle in the later 2010s, Fernández Valencia emerged as the intersection of two of the cartel’s most…
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On the Radar: Do Crackdowns Work?
This week in On the Radar, a CJNG co-founder pleads guilty, Ecuador turns to Europe for help fighting crime, and US strikes hit trafficking routes — but the cocaine trade keeps…
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After El Mencho: A Data-Driven Look at an Evolving Drug Market
The story of El Mencho, it seemed to me, was the story of methamphetamine.
At least that was my hypothesis, so I went about trying to prove…
How Criminal Decisions Over the Drug Market Impact Public Health in Northern Mexico
As international drug policy increasingly moves toward public health strategies, the experiences in northern Mexico suggest that criminal control over local markets, and the…
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How Fentanyl Was Introduced in Mexico’s Local Drug Markets
As Mexican criminal organizations became the main suppliers of illicit fentanyl to the United States, small pockets of domestic consumption began to emerge along key trafficking corridors. Since…
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5 Models of Criminal Control Over Fentanyl Markets in Northern Mexico
In various parts of Mexico, local drug markets do not operate according to supply-and-demand logics alone. What is sold, how it is sold, how much it…
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InSight Crime’s 2025 Homicide Round-Up
Despite the widespread use of states of emergency, the increasingly militarized response to organized crime, and the growth of criminal economies, the murder rate in 2025 across Latin America and the Caribbean…
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What the Story of Meth Tells Us About the Future of Mexico’s CJNG
The CJNG and El Mencho rose through Mexico’s criminal ranks alongside the explosion of methamphetamine production in the country.
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