Whack-a-mole: Mexico's Sinaloa gang grows empire, defies crackdown | Reuters

The moral of this story is that the more the Mexican government whacks the drug moles, the stronger this mole becomes.

Mexico's Sinaloa gang grows empire, defies crackdown | Reuters: "A decade after its leader escaped from prison, Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel is the most powerful organized crime gang in the Americas despite a multi-billion dollar U.S.-Mexico crackdown.

Joaquin 'Shorty' Guzman, 53, is arguably the world's most infamous drug trafficker, and has extended his empire from Colombia to China since he broke out of prison in a laundry van on January 19, 2001." Jan. 19, 2011