Mexican cartels that originally produced and traded marijuana and transported cocaine coming from Colombia, mainly from Mexico to the United States, are a far cry from the criminal groups that now manage the transnational drug market. 

The new criminal market consisting of synthetic drugs, methamphetamine and fentanyl have already displaced the traditional drug market among North Americans and are beginning to infiltrate addicts around the world. 

"Organized crime has diversified, gone global and reached macroeconomic proportions: illegal goods come from one continent and are trafficked to another and traded in a third. Mafias are truly a transnational problem today: a security threat, especially in poor and conflict-ridden countries, crime is fueling corruption, infiltrating business and politics, and impeding development. It is undermining governance by empowering those who operate outside the law," said Antonio María Costa, UNODC Executive Director. 

For the Mexican cartels, the new sources of income and the increase in the products offered generated a significant increase in their profits and a large territorial expansion of their activities. 

Not only was the Mexican market closed, but its horizons opened to Europe through Spain and then Italy. 

Currently, the Albanian mafia has a presence in Mexico and is connected to CS and CJNG, for money laundering. Its investment is focused, among other activities, on casino and betting. 

Laundered money arrives in Mexico to finance the activity of criminal groups; the violence, murders and disappearances of people in Mexico are directly related to these resources obtained by criminal groups. 

The Albanian mafia is characterized by hot-bloodedness and military training, its geographical position is strategic, they dominate the thousand-year-old Balkan road. 

Mexico must not allow these international mafias to settle in the territory and continue to finance the criminal activity of local criminal groups, as to that extent violence and crime will increase in the country. 

The recent actions of SEDENA and SEMAR are the way shown and due to the leaks of the Guacamaya group we have been able to discover that SEDENA is already following these criminal groups; the threat is grave and the challenge great. 

Albanian and Mexican cartels invest their illegal money in legal activities and with the cleaned profits enter the national economy and continue to finance their activities. 

To continue to see cartels with the stereotype that the TV series has generated is a grave mistake, they should be seen as large criminal enterprises seeking to expand their activity and maximize their profits. 

Albania is on the FATF gray list, while Mexico is not, so to face this crime requires a lot of coordinated work by society and the three levels of government, with concrete commitments from civil society and the authorities. 

Creating a clear public policy and a criminal policy that really confronts the criminal phenomenon that occupies us, EL Universal reported.