La Resistencia (gang)

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Cárteles Unidos (English: United Cartels), originally and alternatively known as La Resistencia (English: The Resistance), is a Mexican criminal enforcer squad and U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization. The organization is composed of trained gunmen from the Sinaloa and Gulf Cartels, as well as former members of the defunct La Familia Michoacana syndicate and Knights Templar Cartel. Cárteles Unidos was originally formed as a splinter group of the Milenio Cartel, which aligned with the Los Zetas to fight against the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), another splinter group of the Milenio Cartel, and remove them from the states of Michoacán and Jalisco. Shifting cartel alliances has complicated the position and role of the cartel in the Mexican Drug War; the Gulf and Sinaloa Cartels are no longer in the group, while the Knights Templar Cartel dissolved around 2017 and its remnants aligned with the CJNG, La Nueva Familia Michoacana Organization and its armed wing Los Viagras began...

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