Colombian drug trafficking cartel based in Medellín, founded in the late 1990s by Gerardo Santana Garza and Luis Mendez. It is a breakaway group from the Juárez Cartel and traffics cocaine, heroin, MDMA, fentanyl, marijuana, and pink cocaine. The cartel operates in Colombia, Mexico, and other regions, and remains active.
CRIMENET has extracted 16 linkages for this organization, including 9 cooperative ties across 6 organizations, 4 conflicts across 3 organizations, 3 other connections and footprints in 1 country.
Territory: Medellín , Bogotá , parts of the Amazon natural region , Ciudad Juárez , Chiapas