Have been looking at that Sinaloa org chart and the DEA cartel maps.
According to conventional 'history' per wikipedia, the Beltran-Leyva cartel was an offshoot branch of Sinaloa until the B-L brothers got in a beef with El Chapo. Mexican authorities proclaimed them 'extinct' in 2011 and the last known leader captured in 2014.
Yet if you look at the latest DEA map (FY16), B-L has influence over the following US cities:
Total: Little Rock (!!!), Chattanooga, Ventura CA, Minneapolis, Columbus OH, Fort Myers FL, Austin TX
Partial: Las Vegas (!!!), Birmingham AL, Dayton OH, Omaha NE, Detroit, Los Angeles area, Seattle, Newark NJ, Raleigh NC, DC, Denver & New Orleans.
The other maps show them having total influence over Bellingham WA (near border with Canada) & Charleston SC.
These are stragetically important cities if you consider distribution of physical goods into the continental US.
Now look at the Mexico map as of 2015 >>6240398
B-L dominates Sinaloa proper, Nogales (AZ border), Guadalajuara, Mazatlan (port city), and the area outside Mexico City. Presence in Mexico City, Oaxaca, Chiapas & Monterrey.
That's mucho influence for a cartel that supposedly no longer exists.
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beltrán-Leyva_Cartel
The BLO was one of Mexico's most powerful drug cartel that had effectively infiltrated the ranks of various Mexican government agencies and Mexico's Interpol. Its last known leader, Héctor Beltrán Leyva, was arrested in October 2014, having had a multimillion-dollar bounty placed on him by the governments of both the United States and Mexico.[10][11][12] On August 11, 2011 the capture of one of the cartel's former top lieutenants,[13][13][14] called "the last Beltran-Leyva link of any importance",[13] prompted Mexican authorities to declare the cartel disbanded and extinct.