CJNG is New Key Cocaine Supply for Italian ‘Ndrangheta ~ Borderland Beat

Though the linked teams have modified in Mexico, this has not damaged the hyperlink with the nation. There’s a “robust curiosity” for the Italian mafias in “Colombia and Mexico”, affirms the DIA in its most up-to-date report. The principle mafias in Italy along with the ‘Ndrangheta, are the Camorra of Naples and the Cosa Nostra of Sicily.

The ‘Ndrangheta, for instance, “makes use of the Calabrian port of Gioia Tauro as a strategic hub for site visitors in Europe”, provides the establishment.

Based on the DIA investigators, the Calabrian legal group has a “entrance web page function” within the drug trafficking sector additionally “due to its alliances with the Mexican drug traffickers”, which permit it to handle “each the principle hyperlinks intercontinental between America and Europe”, in addition to “the sale in Europe”, continues the anti-mafia company in one other report, during which it additionally warns in regards to the hazard posed by the infiltration of the three Italian mafias in Latin American societies.

These networks make use of the additionally consolidated relations between the Calabrian legal group and Balkan organized crime. “The principle shipments depart from the Pacific ports and cross by means of the Strait of Panama earlier than reaching the nations of northern Europe, the Mediterranean, and the coasts of West Africa”, they’ve concluded, contemplating the CJNG a type of networks “most aggressive” in Mexico.

Neither Los Zetas, the Gulf Cartel, nor the Sinaloa Cartel seems within the newest DIA analyses. That is the primary information that they’re now not designated as companions of the ‘Ndrangheta, however that this place is now occupied by the CJNG. It is a important change as these Mexican cartel teams have been in enterprise with the Italian mafias, some sources converse of relationships that started within the Eighties.

Earlier Connections

The primary time that the hyperlink between the Gulf Cartel and the ‘Ndrangheta (amongst them, the Schirripa Clan) was uncovered was in 2008. It occurred with the transnational operation Operación Solare (or Challenge Reckoning), carried out between Mexico, the USA, Guatemala, and Italy, which led to the arrest of some 200 individuals.

Later, in 2011, Operation Solare 2 (often known as Crimine 3), additionally coordinated by Italy, revealed how the then-rising Los Zetas had begun to function with the Calabrian ‘Ndrangheta (notably with the Jerino, Aquino, Bruzzese, Siderno, and Fish Clans). 

Catania was chosen as a check run for different potential cocaine flights from Latin America, which might refuel in West Africa, similar to in Cape Verde. Two Sinaloa operatives have been dispatched to Italy to liaise with native ‘Ndrangheta contacts and supervise native preparations weeks upfront. The Sinaloa determine, José Angel “El Flaco” Rivera Zazueta, a prime lieutenant of Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, would come to Italy just for the ultimate levels. Primarily based in Asia and dwelling in locations similar to Taiwan, “El Flaco” had principally centered on managing the Sinaloa Cartel’s artificial drug trafficking in Asia. Flaco was lately sanctioned by the US for his involvement in fentanyl trafficking.

Sources Proceso, Brookings Journal, Borderland Beat

Though the linked teams have modified in Mexico, this has not damaged the hyperlink with the nation. There’s a “robust curiosity” for the Italian mafias in “Colombia and Mexico”, affirms the DIA in its most up-to-date report. The principle mafias in Italy along with the ‘Ndrangheta, are the Camorra of Naples and the Cosa Nostra of Sicily.

The ‘Ndrangheta, for instance, “makes use of the Calabrian port of Gioia Tauro as a strategic hub for site visitors in Europe”, provides the establishment.

Based on the DIA investigators, the Calabrian legal group has a “entrance web page function” within the drug trafficking sector additionally “due to its alliances with the Mexican drug traffickers”, which permit it to handle “each the principle hyperlinks intercontinental between America and Europe”, in addition to “the sale in Europe”, continues the anti-mafia company in one other report, during which it additionally warns in regards to the hazard posed by the infiltration of the three Italian mafias in Latin American societies.

These networks make use of the additionally consolidated relations between the Calabrian legal group and Balkan organized crime. “The principle shipments depart from the Pacific ports and cross by means of the Strait of Panama earlier than reaching the nations of northern Europe, the Mediterranean, and the coasts of West Africa”, they’ve concluded, contemplating the CJNG a type of networks “most aggressive” in Mexico.

Neither Los Zetas, the Gulf Cartel, nor the Sinaloa Cartel seems within the newest DIA analyses. That is the primary information that they’re now not designated as companions of the ‘Ndrangheta, however that this place is now occupied by the CJNG. It is a important change as these Mexican cartel teams have been in enterprise with the Italian mafias, some sources converse of relationships that started within the Eighties.

Earlier Connections

The primary time that the hyperlink between the Gulf Cartel and the ‘Ndrangheta (amongst them, the Schirripa Clan) was uncovered was in 2008. It occurred with the transnational operation Operación Solare (or Challenge Reckoning), carried out between Mexico, the USA, Guatemala, and Italy, which led to the arrest of some 200 individuals.

Later, in 2011, Operation Solare 2 (often known as Crimine 3), additionally coordinated by Italy, revealed how the then-rising Los Zetas had begun to function with the Calabrian ‘Ndrangheta (notably with the Jerino, Aquino, Bruzzese, Siderno, and Fish Clans). 

Catania was chosen as a check run for different potential cocaine flights from Latin America, which might refuel in West Africa, similar to in Cape Verde. Two Sinaloa operatives have been dispatched to Italy to liaise with native ‘Ndrangheta contacts and supervise native preparations weeks upfront. The Sinaloa determine, José Angel “El Flaco” Rivera Zazueta, a prime lieutenant of Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, would come to Italy just for the ultimate levels. Primarily based in Asia and dwelling in locations similar to Taiwan, “El Flaco” had principally centered on managing the Sinaloa Cartel’s artificial drug trafficking in Asia. Flaco was lately sanctioned by the US for his involvement in fentanyl trafficking.

Sources Proceso, Brookings Journal, Borderland Beat