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The era of large, unified criminal organizations and all-powerful kingpins is coming to an end.

Dear Reader,

For more than a decade, the Jalisco Cartel New Generation (CJNG) and the Sinaloa Cartel dominated Mexico's criminal landscape. Today, both organizations are facing significant internal fractures and external pressure. The death of El Mencho, the fragmentation of the Sinaloa Cartel, and shifting relationships with authorities are reshaping the country's criminal ecosystem.

But what comes next?

Across the world, the most influential criminal networks increasingly operate through decentralized structures that are difficult to detect and disrupt. Rather than relying on highly visible leaders, they depend on flexible alliances, corruption networks, and local actors embedded in transnational criminal markets.

Is Mexico moving toward that model?

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