In some cases it was hard to determine the true godfather, so an underboss is highlighted. The people that will be highlighted in this article include the current leaders of the Sicilian Mafia, American Cosa Nostra, Neopolitan Camorra, ‘Ndrangheta, Russian Mafia, Albanian Mafia, Chinese Triads, Japanese Yakuza, Montreal Mob, Solntsevskaya Bratva, Clerkenwell crime syndicate, Los Rastrojos, Sinaloa Cartel, and the Juárez Cartel. Criminal groups that used to follow illegal schemes have turned to more reliable forms of profit. Organized crime has always been a problem, but as we move into 2012 some syndicates have exploded with profit and influence.

Many Italian-Americans around this same time also formed various small-time gangs which gradually evolved into sophisticated crime syndicates, but the nationwide organization known as 'Cosa Nostra' has traditionally dominated organized crime in America for several decades.There are certain people in the world that you don’t want to mess with: those who control some of the largest organized crime operations on the planet. Italian immigrants to the United States in the early 19th century brought with them the underground government many Americans refer to as 'Cosa Nostra' (Our Thing) along with its traditions and formal induction rituals along with the concepts and precepts of Omerta, which espouses honorable and manly behavior at all times and under all conditions,taking care your own problems and assisting your community, as well as non-cooperation with corrupt law enforcement and government officials. See also: The Order (white supremacist group) Afghan drug cartels (see also Taliban).Laotian drug cartels (see also Ouane Rattikone).Red Wa Cartel (see also United Wa State Army and National Democratic Alliance Army).

Khun Sa cartel (see also Mong Tai Army).Burmese drug cartels (see also Myanmar Nationalities Democratic Alliance Army).See also: List of drug cartels in Asia and Manchukuo § Drug trafficking Independent Cartel of Acapulco (defunct).Colombian Popular Revolutionary Anti-communist Army.Medellín Cartel (See also Muerte a Secuestradores).Bandas criminales (See also Paramilitarism in Colombia).See also: Guerrilla movements in Colombia and The Extraditables Active

5.2 Southeast Asian criminal organizations.5.1.3 Sam Gor, Triads and other Chinese criminal organizations.

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