| Founded | 1995 by El Jona[1] |
|---|---|
| Founding location | Sonora, Mexico[2] |
| Years active | 1995-present |
| Territory | Sinaloa, Mexicali, Chihuahua, Acapulco, Sonora, Ciudad Juárez |
| Ethnicity | Mexican |
| Activities | Drug trafficking, kidnapping, murder[3] |
| Allies | Sinaloa Cartel Artistas Asesinos Los Mexicles Los Antrax |
| Rivals | Los Zetas Juárez Cartel La Línea Los Muertos Knights Templar Cartel CJNG |
Gente Nueva (English: New People), also known as Los Chapos,[4] in reference to their drug lord Joaquín Guzmán Loera, is a large group of well-trained and experienced gunmen that function as one of the elite armed wings of the Sinaloa Cartel, created to counter, battle and destroy the Juárez Cartel's influence in the Mexican north-west, as well as to battle and destroy La Línea which is currently the Juárez Cartel's largest remaining cell.
Gente Nueva dates back to 1995 when El Profe begun his criminal career in the Mexican state of Chihuahua under the Sinaloa Federation. Gente Nueva has served as the main branch of the organization in Ciudad Juárez and in the rest of the state, where they have engaged in a four-year war with the Juárez Cartel and its enforcer wing, La Línea, for the control of the smuggling routes to the United States.[5] Amid the internal struggles and infightings in the Juárez cartel, Gente Nueva began to recruit the cartel's members.[6]
By 2012, U.S. intelligence indicated that the Sinaloa cartel and Gente Nueva have emerged victorious and successfully relegated the Juárez cartel to the sidelines.[7] The El Paso–Juárez corridor is a lucrative route for drug traffickers because the DEA estimates that about 70% of the cocaine that enters the United States flows through that area.[8]
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- ^ Muedano, Marcos (6 October 2011). "Cae presunto fundador de la agrupación Gente Nueva". El Universal (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 10 October 2011. Retrieved 5 August 2012.
- ^ McCaul, Michael T. "A Line in the Sand: Confronting the Threat at the Southwest Border" (PDF). United States House Committee on Homeland Security: 38. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 September 2011. Retrieved 4 August 2012.
- ^ "Los chapos califican de terroristas a los Beltrán". Milenio (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 20 July 2010. Retrieved 19 November 2011.
- ^ Shea, Erin (25 May 2012). "Mapping Sinaloa Cartel Operatives in Juarez Battleground". InSight Crime. Archived from the original on 30 June 2012. Retrieved 30 July 2012.
- ^ Tuckman 2012, p. 31.
- ^ "Drug War Experts Insist Juarez Cartel Will 'Fight To The Death'". KVIA-TV. 12 July 2012. Archived from the original on 2 December 2012. Retrieved 4 August 2012.
- ^ "Colombian Trafficker with Links to Mexican and Colombian Cartels Extradited from Mexico to the United States". Drug Enforcement Administration. 17 June 2010. Archived from the original on 11 May 2012. Retrieved 19 July 2012.
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