Gangs have diversified for several reasons. We lay out what they are
) last month described the Sinaloa cartel and the Jalisco New Generation cartel , Mexico’s two biggest groups, as the “greatest drug threat our nation has ever faced”.
The big money comes, however, from “taxing” businesses in sectors such as agriculture and mining. Avocados, Mexico’s “green gold”, are a good example. The country provides almost a third of global supply, most of which is grown in the western state of Michoacán. The $3bn-worth of them exported every year to the United States is a huge source of income for the producers and also for gangs.
Trafficking natural resources is lucrative, too, says the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime. In 2014 Mexico’s government acknowledged for the first time that gangs illegally mine and export iron ore from Michoacán. A report by Insight Crime, an investigative outfit, last year found the activity is thriving now under the. In the state of Jalisco gangs control the timber market. Demand for Mexican animals, though a niche business, is growing, too.
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