Transcript Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI): 1970s to

Supply Chains of Mexican
Drug Cartels
April 7, 2014
Georgia Tech
Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI): 1929-2000;
2012-Present
Dominated Most Aspects
of Society
* Captive Labor Movement
* Educational System
* The petroleum sector (PEMEX)
* Mass media
* Transportation
* Economic policy
Mining
Mexico’s Approaches to Drug Cartels
Institutional Revolutionary Party
(PRI): 1970s to early 1990s
Fernando Gutierrez Barrios
Rules of the Game
National Action Party (PAN): 2000 to
2006
Vicente Fox Quesada
Two Major Types of Cartels
Transactional
(Moving commodities from point A to point B)
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Trafficking narcotics
Money laundering
Front businesses
Importance of logistics
More personnel
Cell-like organization
Territorial
Control & Taxation of an area
• Enemies of states because
they are so much alike;
• Hierarchical;
• Resilient;
• Prone to Violence
• Funded by Taxation
(extortion, kidnapping,
graft, etc.
• Dual Sovereignty
La Familia Michoacana and the
Knights Templars
Mexico’s Pacific Coast
Lazaro Cardenas, Michoacan
Importance of port for Drug
Cartels
* Relatively new (1970s)
• Built near steel mills
• Within 160 miles of
2/3rds of the nation’s
population
• Attracted uprooted
young people
• Economic downturn of
the mid-1990s
Sources of Drugs
Cocaine from Colombia
Precursor Chemicals from Asia
Trans-Ocean Cargo Ships
Semi-Submersible Submarine
Drug Export Honchos
Enrique “Kiki” Plancarte
Export Boss
“Oscar” (Command and
Control Agent)
Shipments to the Border
Other Delivery Devices
Pozo Seco, Sonora to Naco, Arizona 2011
Catapulting to Success
Super Tunnel
600-yard “Super Tunnel” Snaked from Tijuana to San Diego
Electricity, Ventilation, and Electric rail system
Major Mexican Highways
Crossing Points into U.S.
Dallas Main Hub in U.S.
Extremely large, sprawling city
• Interstate Highways
35 and 20; and
• Major Airports (in area)
• Large HispanicAmerican Population
Transfer to Smaller Vehicles
Before Reaching Chicago
Pick-up Trucks
SUVs
To the “Windy City”
Distribution Supervisors in Chicago AREA
Remain in the City of One Year ($100,000) + Bonus
Jose “Panda” Gonzalez
Zavala
Luis Torres Galvan
• Arrested in June 2009
(Operation Coronado);
sentenced to 40 years in
prison)
• Arrested in June 2009
(Operation Coronado);
Cocaine Delivery to Wholesalers
Average Suburban Home
Appearance of Normal MexicanAmerican Family
Cocaine Dropped off on Consignment
Collector of Sales of Cocaine
Safe House for Money
Unobtrusive Home from Outside
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Look What’s Inside
Preparing the Dollars for Return to
Michoacan
Encase Dollars in Durable Plastic
Bags
Encase in Concrete Used to Make
Pothole Covers
Return to Michoacan
Use Smaller Vehicles Leaving
Chicago; make Transfer to
Larger Vehicle on to the Border;
& take Least Dangerous Route
Take Least Dangerous Route; From U.S.
Border to Michoacan, Use corridors
where mayors and other politicians are
linked to the cartel
Self-Defense Forces Challenge Knights
Templarios
Active in Stealing and Producing Iron
Ore
Back to the Port of Lazaro Cardenas
(Managed by a Hong Kong-based Firm)
Ore-Carrying Vessel
Shanghai Skyscrapers
Return of Virgin of Guadalupe
W&M Professor Shamelessly Seeking a
Job in Pemex—For one week