"Perhaps the best single test to determine whether not crime groups can fairly be classified as "organized crime" is the enduring nature of the group when leadership is taken into custody. Project Reckoning targeted the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas. Operation Xcellerator targeted the Sinaloa cartel. The government reckoned both were successes even though they didn't dismantle the targeted organizations." (Source: us-mexico-border-security.blogspot.com, "Project Coronado," October 22, 2009)
(NOTE: See the following articles, "Largest US sting on Mexican drug operations nabs 300-plus, shows wide scope of drug trade," Breaking News 24/7, October 22, 2009, at, http://blog.taragana.com/n/largest-us-sting-on-mexican-drug-operations-nabs-300-plus-shows-wide-scope-of-drug-trade-204203/) |
