Colima Cartel

Colima Cartel
Founded1988-2005
Founded byJesús Amezcua Contreras
Founding locationColima, Mexico
EthnicityMexican
Criminal activitiesDrug trafficking, money laundering, extortion, murder and arms trafficking
AlliesSinaloa Cartel
Guadalajara Cartel Milenio Cartel Sonora Cartel

The Colima Cartel (Spanish: Cártel de Colima) was a Mexican drug trafficking and methamphetamine producing cartel operating in Guadalajara, Jalisco. It was founded and led by José de Jesús Amezcua Contreras and supported by his brothers Adán and Luis.[1]

The Colima Cartel is believed to have obtained large quantities of the precursor ephedrine through contacts in Thailand and India,[2] and then distributed it to different methamphetamine labs in Mexico and the United States.[3]

The Colima cartel has become a branch of the Sinaloa Cartel as are the Milenio Cartel, Guadalajara Cartel, and Sonora Cartels.[4]

  1. ^ "1998 Congressional Hearings Intelligence and Security: DEA Congressional Testimony". Senate Foreign Relations Committee. February 26, 1998.
  2. ^ Organized Crime And Terrorist Activity In Mexico, 1999-2002 (PDF). Library of Congress. February 2003.
  3. ^ "PBS Frontline: Murder Money & Mexico: The Amezcua-Contreras Cartel". Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).
  4. ^ Grayson, George W. (August 2007). "Mexico and the Drug Cartels". Foreign Policy Research Institute. Archived from the original on March 9, 2012. Retrieved September 19, 2010.