Mexico City is the capital and largest city of Mexico,as well as the most populous city in North America,and is one of the country's 32 federal entities. Mexico City is one of the most important cultural and financial centers in the world. It is located in the Valley of Mexico,a large valley in the high plateaus in the center of Mexico,at an altitude of 2,240 meters (7,350 ft). The city has 16 demarcaciones territoriales,subdivisions colloquially known as alcaldías or boroughs.
North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere. It can also be described as the northern subcontinent of a single continent,America. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean,to the east by the Atlantic Ocean,to the southeast by South America and the Caribbean Sea,and to the west and south by the Pacific Ocean. Because it is on the North American Tectonic Plate,Greenland is included as part of North America geographically.
New Mexico is a state in the Southwestern United States. It is one of the Mountain States of the southern Rocky Mountains,sharing the Four Corners region of the western U.S. with Utah,Colorado,and Arizona,and bordering Texas to the east and southeast,Oklahoma to the northeast,and the Mexican states of Chihuahua and Sonora to the south. The state capital is Santa Fe,which is the oldest capital in the U.S.,founded in 1610 as the government seat of Nuevo México in New Spain;the largest city is Albuquerque.
Albuquerque,abbreviated as ABQ,is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Mexico. Its nicknames,The Duke City and Burque,both reference its 1706 founding by Nuevo México governor Francisco Cuervo y Valdés as La Villa de Alburquerque. Named in honor of the Viceroy of New Spain,the 10th Duke of Alburquerque,the city was an outpost on El Camino Real linking Mexico City to the northernmost territories of New Spain. The 2020 census found the population of the city to be 564,559,making Albuquerque the 32nd-most populous city in the United States and the fourth-largest in the Southwest. It is the principal city of the Albuquerque metropolitan area,which had 916,528 residents as of July 2020.
Mexico City International Airport;officially Aeropuerto Internacional Benito Juárez is an international airport that serves Greater Mexico City. It is Mexico's and Latin America's busiest airport by passenger traffic and aircraft movements,and the 33rd busiest in the world. The airport sustains 35,000 jobs directly and around 15,000 indirectly in the immediate area. The airport is owned by Grupo Aeroportuario de la Ciudad de México and operated by Aeropuertos y Servicios Auxiliares,the government-owned corporation,which also operates 22 other airports throughout Mexico.
El Paso is a city in and the county seat of El Paso County in the far southwestern part of the U.S. state of Texas. The 2020 population of the city from the U.S. Census Bureau was 678,815,making it the 23rd-largest city in the United States,the sixth-largest city in Texas,and the second-largest city in the Southwestern United States behind Phoenix,Arizona. The city is also the second-largest majority-Hispanic city in the United States,with 81% of its population being Hispanic. Its metropolitan statistical area covers all of El Paso and Hudspeth counties in Texas,and had a population of 843,725 in 2019.
Ramón Eduardo Arellano Félix was a Mexican drug lord who alongside his brothers founded and led the Tijuana Cartel. He was the leader of the enforcement wing of the organization until his assassination on February 10,2002.
Baja California,officially the Free and Sovereign State of Baja California is a state in Mexico. It is the northernmost and westernmost of the 32 federal entities of Mexico. Before becoming a state in 1952,the area was known as the North Territory of Baja California. It has an area of 70,113 km2 (27,071 sq mi) and comprises the northern half of the Baja California Peninsula,north of the 28th parallel,plus oceanic Guadalupe Island. The mainland portion of the state is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean;on the east by Sonora,the U.S. state of Arizona,and the Gulf of California;on the north by the U.S. state of California;and on the south by Baja California Sur.
Mexican Americans are Americans of Mexican ancestry. In 2019,Mexican Americans comprised 11.3% of the US population and 61.5% of all Latino Americans. In 2019,71% of Mexican Americans were born in the United States,though they make up 53% of the total population of foreign-born Latino Americans and 25% of the total foreign-born population. The United States is home to the second-largest Mexican community in the world,second only to Mexico itself. Most Mexican Americans reside in the Southwest. Many Mexican Americans living in the United States have assimilated into US culture which has made some become less connected with their culture of birth and sometimes creates an identity crisis.
Ismael Zambada García is a Mexican suspected drug lord and alleged leader of the Sinaloa Cartel,an international crime syndicate based in Sinaloa,Mexico. Before he assumed leadership of the entire cartel,he allegedly served as the logistical coordinator for its Zambada-García faction,which has overseen the trafficking of cocaine and heroin into Chicago and other US cities by aircraft,narcosubs,container ships,go-fast boats,fishing vessels,buses,rail cars,tractor trailers,and automobiles.
The United States men's national soccer team (USMNT) represents the United States in men's international soccer competitions. The team is controlled by the United States Soccer Federation and is a member of FIFA and CONCACAF.
The Mexico national football team represents Mexico in international football and is governed by the Mexican Football Federation. It competes as a member of CONCACAF.
The Mexican Navy is one of the two independent armed forces of Mexico. The actual naval forces are called the Armada de México. The Secretaría de Marina (SEMAR) includes both the Armada itself and the attached ministerial and civil service. The commander of the Navy is the Secretary of the Navy,who is both a cabinet minister and a career naval officer.
Mexico,officially the United Mexican States,is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States;to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean;to the southeast by Guatemala,Belize,and the Caribbean Sea;and to the east by the Gulf of Mexico. Mexico covers 1,972,550 square kilometers (761,610 sq mi),making it the world's 13th-largest country by area;with approximately 126,014,024 inhabitants,it is the 10th-most-populous country and has the most Spanish-speakers. Mexico is organized as a federation comprising 31 states and Mexico City,its capital and largest metropolis. Other major urban areas include Guadalajara,Monterrey,Puebla,Toluca,Tijuana,Ciudad Juárez,and León.
Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera,commonly known as "El Chapo" because of his 168 cm stature,is a Mexican former drug lord and a former leader within the Sinaloa Cartel,an international crime syndicate. He is considered to have been one of the most powerful drug traffickers in the world.
Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo,commonly referred to by his aliases El Jefe de Jefes and El Padrino,is a convicted Mexican drug lord. He was one of the founders of the Guadalajara Cartel in the 1970s. Throughout the 1980s,the cartel controlled much of the drug trafficking in Mexico and the corridors along the Mexico–United States border.
The Mexican drug war is the Mexican theater of the global war on drugs,as led by the U.S. federal government,that has resulted in an ongoing asymmetric low-intensity conflict between the Mexican government and various drug trafficking syndicates. When the Mexican military began to intervene in 2006,the government's principal goal was to reduce drug-related violence. The Mexican government has asserted that their primary focus is on dismantling the powerful drug cartels,and on preventing drug trafficking demand along with the U.S. functionaries.
Vicente Carrillo Fuentes,commonly referred to by his alias El Viceroy,is a Mexican convicted drug lord and former leader of the Juárez Cartel,a drug trafficking organization. The cartel is based in Chihuahua,one of the primary transportation routes for billions of dollars' worth of illegal drug shipments entering the United States from Mexico annually. He was one of Mexico's most-wanted drug lords until his capture in 2014.
The Sinaloa Cartel,also known as the CDS,the Guzmán-Loera Organization,the Pacific Cartel,the Federation and the Blood Alliance,is a large international drug trafficking,money laundering,and organized crime syndicate established in Mexico during the late 1980s as one of a various number of "plazas" operating under a predecessor organization known as the Guadalajara Cartel. It is currently headed by Ismael Zambada García and is based in the city of Culiacán,Sinaloa,with operations in many world regions but primarily in the Mexican states of Sinaloa,Baja California,Durango,Sonora,and Chihuahua. It also has a notable presence in a number of other regions in Latin America,such as Colombia;as well as in cities across the U.S. The United States Intelligence Community generally considers the Sinaloa Cartel to be the most powerful drug trafficking organization in the Western Hemisphere,making it perhaps even more influential and capable than the infamous Medellín Cartel of Colombia was during its prime. It has repeatedly been said to be one of the strongest criminal organizations in the world and indisputably the most powerful in Mexico since at least the late 2000s and early 2010s by various sources including the Los Angeles Times.
Club Deportivo Guadalajara S.A. de C.V.;often simply known as Guadalajara and their nickname Chivas,is a Mexican professional football club based in Zapopan,Jalisco. Guadalajara is one of the ten founding members of the Mexican First Division and along with Club América is one of only two teams that have never been relegated to the second-tier division.
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