Americano Cartel

The Americano Cartel is a global, highly violent, highly dangerous criminal organization based out of the Dominican Republic. Instead of being a typical crime organization, it has sway over the governments of Central America and some other places, including the Dominican Republic and Haiti.

It is a strong ally of MS-13, the Bloods, and Los Zetas, and Dominicans Don't Play, and is enemies with the Crips, Aryan Brotherhood, 14k and Sun Yee On triads, Sinaloa Cartel, and Gulf Cartel. It's operations include drug trafficking, human trafficking, weapons production and smuggling, kidnappings, extortion, assassinations, robbery, cyber crime, prostitution, fraud, vandalism, and more. With membership estimated to be over a million worldwide, the Americano Cartel has been rated the world's most dangerous organization by many foreign sources.

Founding and History
AC was founded by Franco 'El General' Villa in Santo Domingo. It was founded by ex members of New York street gang Dominicans Don't Play, who had returned to their country of origin. Being a suave businessman in addition to a ruthless fighter, Villa bought cocaine from Colombia and sold it at a higher price, raising profits to buy Eastern European weapons and take over the city from other gangs.

As AC expanded through the country, they recruited former Mexican special forces soldiers to train their foot soldiers in military style combat. The cartel expanded out of the Caribbean and into Central America, building a strong presence in every country there.

After the cartel had a strong power base it began to work on getting influence over the governments of the countries they operated in. Belize responded especially well and by 2015, AC had turned the Belize government into a puppet through assassinations and the use of force.

States controlled

 * Dominican Republic
 * Guatemala
 * Belize
 * Honduras
 * Costa Rica
 * Panama
 * Haiti