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Mexico is home to some of the hemisphere’s largest, most sophisticated and violent organized criminal groups. These organizations have drawn from Mexico’s long history of smuggling and its close proximity to the United States, the world’s largest economy, to grow into a regional threat. Read full profile

Criminal Personalities A-Z
- Alejandro ‘Omar’ Treviño Morales, alias ‘Z42’
- Alejandro Flores Cacho
- Antonio Cardenas Guillen, alias ‘Tony Tormenta’
- Chapitos
- Dámaso López Núñez, alias ‘Licenciado’
- Edgardo Leyva Escandon, alias ’24’
- Emma Coronel
- Fausto Isidro Meza Flores, alias ‘Chapo Isidro’
- Fernando Sanchez Arellano, alias ‘El Ingeniero’
- Genaro García Luna
- Hector Beltran Leyva, alias ‘El H’
- Heriberto Lazcano, alias ‘Z3’
- Ismael Zambada García, alias ‘El Mayo’
- Joaquín Guzmán Loera, alias ‘El Chapo’
- Jorge Eduardo Costilla Sánchez, alias ‘El Coss’
- José Antonio Yépez Ortiz, alias ‘El Marro’
- José Jesús Méndez Vargas, alias ‘El Chango’
- Mario Ramirez Treviño, alias ‘X20’
- Miguel Angel Treviño, alias ‘Z40’
- Nazario Moreno Gonzalez, alias ‘El Chayo’
- Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, alias ‘El Mencho’
- Osiel Cárdenas Guillén
- Servando Gomez Martinez, alias ‘La Tuta’
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