The Sinaloa Cartel, also known as the CDS, the Guzmán-Loera Organization, the Federation, the Sinaloa Cartel, or the Pacific Cartel, is a large, drug trafficking transnational organized crime syndicate, U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization and Canadian-designated terrorist entity based in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico, that specializes in illegal drug trafficking and money laundering. From Wikipedia