More Sinaloa Cartel Adventures

You may remember the arrests here related to the Sinaloa drug cartel operations. The articles on NL include:

• Drug Cartels Take Aim at Nicaragua
• Sinaloa Cartel Dismantled in Nicaragua
• Drug Cartel Members Trial to Start Wednesday
• Plot to Spring Sinaloa Members from Prison Detected
• Jail Break Thwarted

Well, it looks like the arrests have moved up to Mexico. See this Mad Cow Productions article for details. As the ultimate destination for the cocaine is the US, the article correctly looks at how the trail leads to the US and to some "usual suspects".

Left unanswered by the raids in Mexico is whether anyone will suffer any consequences on the American side of the border. The DEA's operative assumption may be that the Sinaloa Cartel was buying its jets on Ebay. Perhaps the cartel is distributing it to retail as well, using vendors who sell usually oranges at freeway onramps.

Otherwise, with no arrests of Americans forthcoming, the question of where the hell are the American drug lords may arise yet again, though not, of course, in major American newspapers.