Maldeira Cartel
Giovanni Maldeira (Boss)
Eladio Vuente (Don)
- Juan Bolsa (Don)
- Maximo Estrada (Don)
Orlando Matamoros (Don)
Octavio Guzman (Don)
Bonifacio Almagro (Don)
Melchor Barrios (Don)
Enrique Alvarez (Don)
Hector Salamanca (Don)
- Florencio Salamanca (Don)
- Emmanuel Salamanca (Don)
- Fernando Salamanca (Capo)
Nemesio Oseguera (Capo)
Jose Gacha (Capo)
- Thiago Estrada (Capo)
- Tadeo Estrada (Capo)
- Herculano Tortuga (Capo)
- Benicio Fuentes (Capo)
- Armando Cesar (Capo)
- Pascual Renaldo (Capo)
- Efrain Artuno (Capo)
- Oscar Cisco (Capo)
- Amado Carrillo (Capo)
- Joaquin Guzman (Capo)
- Ismael Zambada (Capo)
- Ernesto Fonseca (Capo)
- None
- None
- None
The Maldeira Cartel, also known as the Maldeira Syndicate, is a large criminal organization led by Giovanni Maldeira. It is the second cartel to be formed, after the Gulf Cartel. The Maldeira Cartel is also the largest cartel to exist. It was most influential in all of Middle America and South America with an exception to Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina. Once the Maldeira Cartel collapsed numerous other cartels formed. The most noteworthy are the Sinaloa Cartel, Potosino Cartel and Jalisco Cartel in Mexico and the Medellin Cartel in Colombia.
History
The Maldeira Cartel was formed shortly after the founding of the Gulf Cartel. Giovanni Maldeira signed deals with a high amount of criminal organizations and corrupt businessmen. Shortly after Maldeira also started influencing politicians and various other high ranking people. Maldeira's Cartel grew to power swiftly primarily in Mexico and Colombia. The influence commenced expanding to other regions as well such as Venezuela and other regions in Middle America. Eventually, drug production started growing immensely which caused production to grow towards regions such as Peru and Chile. After a few years the Maldeira Cartel controlled most of Middle America and South America except Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina.