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With the heightened War on Drugs beginning in the 1970s, drug trafficking organizations embraced new technologies and transportation modalities while constructing cross-class and cross-ethnic alliances that reflected shifting power dynamics. The Herrera family organization was a nexus between old and new United States–Mexico organizations. Operating from Mexico’s Golden Triangle and Chicago, it evaded the attention of law enforcement due to its complex structures and flexible business practices. Even when enforcement agencies focused on taking down the Herreras, the family remained one step ahead by adapting certain practices, diversifying markets, shifting locations, expanding territories, and modernizing money laundering. The policing of the Herreras had a significant impact on the 1984 Comprehensive Criminal Control Act. |
