This week, the United States Department of Justice, through the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), released its National Drug Threat Assessment (NDTA), which revealed the presence of criminal cartels throughout Mexico. In other words, it revealed the existence of organized crime in Tlaxcala.
Despite the political rhetoric of Lorena Cuéllar Cisneros, the elected representative of the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) in Tlaxcala, stating that there is no organized crime in the territory, reinforced by the security cabinet’s rhetoric that only “law-breaking gangs” operate, the Donald Trump administration has proven otherwise.
According to the cited source, the DEA believes the Sinaloa Cartel is present in Tlaxcala, is “dominated” by the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, and there is a limited presence of the Cartel del Norte, the Gulf Cartel, and the Michoacán Family Cartel and their groups.
The NDTA 2025 report highlights the “power” of organized crime within each cartel, indicating that the most “powerful” are the Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, with a presence in 40 countries, with fentanyl being the most widely produced and distributed drug in the world.
It should be remembered that, with the arrival of Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo to the Presidency of Mexico and the appointment of Omar García Harfuch to the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC), the Federal Government discovered and dismantled three “narco-laboratories” in Tlaxcala, in addition to four others that had also been discovered in 2023.
Thus, and exposing the fallacy of the political narrative that “there is no organized crime in Tlaxcala,” from 2023 to 2025, the Federal Government, also a Morena party, discovered and dismantled seven “narco-laboratories” located in the municipalities of San Pablo del Monte, Tlaxco, Ixtacuixtla, and Hueyotlipan.
Source: gentetlx
