They have the cartels, and we're fighting the cartels and we're fighting them hard.
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Violence — whether among cartels, or between cartels and government forces — plagues cities along drug trafficking routes.
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In Tamaulipas, a state controlled by drug cartels, migrants are likely to be threatened or kidnapped by cartels.
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CJNG, like many other cartels, claims it's an organization that protects the public from the more violent cartels.
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In April, three different cartels left narcomantas, threatening letters or banners written by drug cartels, around the state.
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Drug cartels have changed the landscape The cartels' global dominance has changed the way Mafia groups operate, experts say.
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They reportedly plan to attack the cartels' financial infrastructure and create a new law enforcement team in Chicago to investigate cartels.
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The fee only guarantees that the cartels don't kidnap the migrants, although sometimes the cartels "clear the route" if there are problems.
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So in addition to exposing the cartels, these findings can inform officials about the size of the cartels, their interconnectedness, and operational strategies.
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The cartels moving some focus from human smuggling to drug smuggling may not seem like a seismic shift; cartels have always smuggled drugs.
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But the violence doesn't just affect cartels members; bystanders, people who refused to join cartels, migrants, journalists and government officials have all fallen victim.
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That fact that Harvey worked for the cartels as a concierge in the 1990s prompted authorities to consider that Mexican drug cartels were involved.
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The EU guidelines apply to customers of cartels, indirect customers and final consumers who are affected when cartels passed on price increases to them.
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Victims of drug cartels The state on Mexico's Gulf Coast has long been a playground for drug cartels, with raging turf wars among gang members.
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I think one of the reasons people are attracted to stories about the cartels is their absurdity of it all—El Chapo's tunnels, lime cartels, etc.
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"They had stood up to the drug cartels and they did have certain frictions either with the cartels or with neighboring communities over water rights," Castañeda said.
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The state — long home to different cartels — was the site of the launch of former President Felipe Calderón's massive military offensive against drug cartels nearly a decade ago.
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Crony-state capitalism has imposed rentier monopolies and cartels on wage earners, effectively transferring more of the nation's income and wealth to politically powerful entrenched interests and cartels.
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"They had stood up to the drug cartels, and they did have certain frictions either with the cartels or with neighboring communities over water rights," he told CNN.
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His administration maintains a non-confrontational stance Mexican cartels, known as their "abrazos, no balazos" -- or "hugs not bullets" -- approach, prioritizing targeting poverty and inequality over combatting cartels.
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From 2006 to 2012, as the battles between warring cartels and between cartels and the Mexican Army spread across the country, more than 150,000 people were killed or went missing.
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We can just move some people down there and let those cartels who are doing a lot of hurt the youth of America, let those cartels fight against the Marine Corps.
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"There is now a growing body of evidence that the drug cartels, particularly the Sinaloa cartels in Mexico, have increased their exportation of heroin and opioids into the US," said Leibsohn.
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If cartels are willing to go to war over competition for transport routes in Mexico, it is not impossible to imagine increased violence between gangs and cartels and U.S. law enforcement.
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The idea of designating Mexican cartels as terrorist organizations may not sound crazy — after all, the cartels do inflict terror — but the idea has sent reverberations of fear through Mexican officials.
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"Jose Bayron Piedrahita Ceballos is a long-time supporter of drug cartels, including the Cali and North Valle cartels, and now La Oficina de Envigado," said John E. Smith, acting OFAC director.
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He has a history of seeing drug cartels as a major threat and often cites the cartels in stump speeches about the need to build a wall on the US-Mexico border.
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Specifically, Winslow claims that because marijuana legalization in Colorado and other states depleted drug cartels' revenues — by pushing marijuana out of the black market — the cartels shifted their production over to heroin instead.
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Many of the coyotes are children working for drug cartels .
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Accounts of drug cartels enlisting kids are even more common.
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How do the cartels deal with protecting, and hiding, cash?
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And then there are the cartels and smaller local gangs.
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For years cartels been using commercial UAVs to smuggle drugs.
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Drug cartels were plenty dangerous before they weaponized flying robots.
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The cartels sent profits from their European sales to Hezbollah.
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Disgruntled participants claim that "cartels" rig the bidding, suppressing prices.
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Now she has trained her eye on corporate cartels, too.
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Cartels, monopolies and lobbying are common ways to extract rents.
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Or [are] the Belizean government and cartels actually after him?
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President Trump offered to help Mexico eradicate its drug cartels.
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Third, the drug cartels are more sophisticated than ever before.
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Drug cartels have three operational domains — land, sea, and air.
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The tunnels demonstrate the persistence and resources of the cartels.
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The cartels send this man money for feeding pollos north.
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Unlikely: The cartels would simply seek out new markets elsewhere.
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ME: But journalists are targeted by the cartels in Mexico?
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What have the cartels learned from major businesses like Walmart?
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One of the big problems cartels face is recruiting people.
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Shootings are common, as are bloody battles between warring cartels.
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The cartels' efficiency has flooded the market far beyond Oregon.
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Powerful Mexican drug cartels have moved in to exploit them.
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Did you know that drug cartels have ships and submarines?
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Latin American cartels probably controlled the cocaine seized in September.
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Meanwhile, other officials have debated which specific cartels are involved.
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Many current presidential candidates support drug cartels, privately not publicly.
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Trump then called for using military force against the cartels.
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It is time for NATO to engage these wild cartels.
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I won't be surprised if other cartels follow his example.
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But we still wouldn't be shielded from foreign oil cartels.
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At the same time, the cartels were "diversifying their businesses" to work with the coyotes, said Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, a professor at George Mason University who has studied both drug cartels and undocumented immigration.
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Cartels are still fighting over Cuauhtemoc and people are still disappearing.
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Cartels fighting to take over for captured drug lord El Chapo.
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They have created a huge gold rush for foreign drug cartels.
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AREU: The cartels... WATTERS: Because the border is not being enforced.
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The Cali godfathers incorporated other Colombian regions' cartels under their umbrella.
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In Nairobi the cartels fight vicious turf wars with each other.
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The cartels either force them to hire coyotes, or kill them.
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A bigger issue than cartels in Mombasa ought to be economics.
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This plan will deter terrorists against forming new partnerships with cartels.
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But Mike's entanglements with the local drug cartels are getting thornier.
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The cartels often rely on forced labor to dig the tunnels.
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Fentanyl is used in many forms by the cartels, officials say.
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Those killed are thought to be victims of warring drug cartels.
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Recently, tensions between Mexican authorities and cartels have reached new heights.
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Media headlines focus on the obvious dangers of foreign drug cartels.
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The U.S. government and Mexico already work closely to tackle cartels.
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"For the cartels, it's their drug of choice," Ms. Healey said.
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Today, the country's brutal drug cartels run things in many regions.
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And this is not the only possible consequence for Mexico's cartels.
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Both come from a Mexican border town infested with drug cartels.
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Others conjure a more menacing, cracked-earth landscape patrolled by cartels.
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"Greece has more cartels than Colombia," Frankie, a transplanted Athenian, mutters.
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Though they principally targeted other cartels, the gruesome attacks shocked Mexico.
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But trimmers say they have more to worry about than cartels.
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The two set out to stoke wars among the Mexican cartels.
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BONES: Brothers, Horses, Cartels, and the Borderland Dream, by Joe Tone.
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Drug cartels are widely believed to be behind the mass grave.
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The drug cartels in Mexico are a real threat, he said.
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Many locals suspect that Latin American cartels set up both murders.
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U.S. institutions that keep the cartels running could find themselves ensnared.
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Other members of the four cartels were Valeo, Panasonic and Calsonic.
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The drug cartels will always exploit whatever the current vulnerability is.
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But where's the common ground between the Yakuza and the Cartels?
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Whereas the drug cartels like the Zetas, and some of the remnants of other cartels that have risen, the Zetas were former commandos in Mexico actually military men who took over and created their own cartel.
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Other smugglers have reported paying cartels up to $500 per migrant to pass through territory they control at the Northern Mexican border with the U.S. Cartels are making millions of dollars a month on the smuggling business.
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Speaking at Reuters Newsmaker forum in New York, Santos noted Colombia's history of seizing assets from drug cartels, recalling how the Medellin and Cali cartels were once considered invincible at their peak strength in 1980s and '90s.
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Barr&aposs visit to Mexico comes a month after US President Donald Trump offered to help Mexico "wage war" on Mexican drug cartels and a week after he said the cartels will be designated as terrorist organizations.
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The general point is that taking out heads of cartels or the cartels themselves won't rid the world of drugs, but will instead shift the drug trade to other criminals and sometimes other parts of the globe.
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Most other Commission investigations into cartels have looked at trade in goods.
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Both cartels infiltrated every level of the city through money and threats.
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And once it&aposs legalized nationally, then the cartels will move out.
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Still, it is a fraction of the estimated profits for the cartels.
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Mexico's drug cartels have been causing record-breaking violence in the country.
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US officials say Chinese manufacturers are selling synthetic fentanyl to Mexican cartels.
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Our immigration policy effectively funnels many Mexican youths into the cartels' clutches.
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Providing the cartels with yet another source of money harms all Mexicans.
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The Sinaloa cartel remained relatively intact compared to other cartels in Mexico.
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Drug cartels and other criminal organizations are behind much of the bloodshed.
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There's no motivation right now for cartels to be working with terrorists.
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Mexican drug cartels, facing lower prices, appear to be losing market share.
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"It's just based on what I know about drug cartels," she said.
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S. statements and a war on drug cartels that has killed thousands.
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TC: Obviously these places have been home to drug cartels for years.
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It would also send billions of dollars back to criminals and cartels.
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"These cartels are absolutely brilliant in how they do business," said Kelly.
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All the world's cocaine is managed by cartels that do this stuff.
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What is the cartels' relationship to the edibles market in the US?
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Transnational criminal organizations and drug cartels have tried to bribe officers before.
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Romney backs Trump's call to cooperate with Mexico to fight cartels pic.twitter.
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In both situations, small-time operations became big-time syndicates and cartels.
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Many grew into right-wing paramilitaries, allied with drug cartels and landowners.
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Drug cartels sensed an opportunity, and began flooding rural America with heroin.
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It's a view shared by others trying to tackle the cartels online.
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Cartels will place a bigger emphasis on pushing heroin, cocaine, and meth.
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Under his presidency, the cartels ramped up their operations and increased profits.
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How do the cartels keep migrants from revealing where the tunnels are?
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We don't want algorithms to learn the tricks of the old cartels.
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Congressmen, mayors and police officers have been paid off by the cartels.
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The wall is the cartels and the coyotes and our darkest impulses.
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She called it the "Six C's" — Congress, Courts, Communications, Countries, Criminals, Cartels.
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He told Zhang that he had a contact in the Mexican cartels.
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Go deeper: Trump vows to designate Mexican drug cartels as terror organizations
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I also love spy thrillers, novels about drug cartels, and the like.
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"The people in migration turned us over to the cartels," he said.
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President Trump has vowed to designate Mexico's drug cartels as terrorist organizations.
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How did the cartels seize the control we see them exercising today?
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The agents suspect they are drug runners or scouts for the cartels.
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Winning community support is crucial for rivals cartels vying for territorial control.
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Castañeda said there were long-standing tensions between the families and cartels.
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Just not on the same global scale as the cartels, Kenney said.
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And in Sicario, it's about the drug cartels fighting the US government.
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Mexico must take back their country from the drug lords and cartels.
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What have you found through your research regarding these "cartels" or organizations?
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My time as a sex slave in Mexican drug cartels My time as a sex slave in Mexican drug cartels Daniela remembers being driven blindfolded through the desert in northern Mexico, thinking she was going to her death.
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"Mexican cartels are present in many countries, but being present is different from controlling," says Grillo, explaining that cartels dispatch operatives to countries like Peru and Honduras in order to buy raw ingredients, cook meth, or launder money.
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Connections between the U.S. government and the cartels have long been the subject of speculation, particularly after revelations that the U.S. partnered with both Colombian and Mexican cartels to supply arms and funds to the Contras in Nicaragua.
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Congress has been debating the No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels Act, or "NOPEC," which would make international oil cartels illegal, exposing countries that coordinate on the price of oil to the risk of litigation in US courts.
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The DEA told VICE that it was too early to make an assessment on the impact of coronavirus on supply chains to Mexico's cartels, but other observers said that it was logical that Mexico's cartels would be affected.
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The Caribbean was the prime drugs pathway to North America when Colombia's Medellin and Cali cartels controlled the cocaine trade, but is not now favored by the Mexican cartels which prefer to go through, under, and over the Southwest border of the U.S. Now, the combination of local economic necessity and good transport facilities may earn the territory a second look from the cartels.
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The last thing I would say is we have to figure out a way to collectively go after the drug cartels and not each other, because it&aposs actually the drug cartels that are stealing a lot of this.
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They succeeded in boosting the role of Mexican cartels from mere errand boys, who received a small cut of the Colombian cartels' profits on cocaine smuggled through Mexico, to full partners that received an equal share of the profits.
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As an indication, or maybe as comparison — when I was in the FBI, we would work drug cartels — that there is no way the drug cartels or drug organizations can operate in any city without the police being involved.
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Brazil's largest cocaine cartels are waging a bloody war in the country's prisons Brazil's largest cocaine cartels are waging a bloody war in the country's prisons São Paulo, Brazil — A war between Brazil's two largest criminal organizations has erupted.
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It was the beginning of the battle between the cartels that continues today.
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Under Australian law, bargaining cartels can be formed with the approval of authorities.
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Cartels prefer children because they will be released by U.S. authorities if caught.
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But he wouldn't detail whether the transnational crime originates with the Mexican cartels.
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Many cartels are operated in a strict top-down fashion, like an army.
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How prevalent is the temptation to get involved with the money-making cartels?
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Police didn't say whether they suspected the men of ties to drug cartels.
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That's also when Figueroa claims she became a victim of extortion from cartels.
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She attempted to flee Mexico after the cartels threatened to kill her family.
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I think the cartels have begun to pivot to other places like meth.
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This isn't to deny that problems exist, such as trafficking by drug cartels.
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Mexico has used its military in a war on drug cartels since 2006.
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The threat from violent drug cartels is real - we must secure our border.
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Bands, cartels and crime networks can quickly start to function as pseudo-governments.
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Legalizing an industry in Mexico therefore does not necessarily push the cartels out.
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When police really needed to bust cartels, the procedure remains at police disposal.
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"They don't have to move their product today," he says of the cartels.
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Criminalizing drugs pushes the market underground, into the hands of cartels and gangs.
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Solving the drug problem requires a plan that erodes the cartels' business model.
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VITELLO: Cartels will look to exploit the way the system is working now.
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In recent years, violence believed to be related to drug cartels has surged.
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This is also a clear message to companies that cartels are not accepted.
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From 1990 to 1994, the bloc imposed fines on cartels totaling €540 million.
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The cartels that controlled party politics in the US didn't like new blood.
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"The Mexican cartels … could really teach a business class at Harvard," Morgan said.
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Thefts can come from organized cartels or crime groups extorting exchanges and companies.
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"Cartels are working to find the path of least resistance," said the official.
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Mr. Sessions has compared MS-13 to Colombian drug cartels and the Mafia.
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Legalization advocates said that regulating marijuana would starve cartels and illegal marijuana trafficking.
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I hate to admit that I sometimes found myself rooting for the cartels.
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The hope was to bolster Colombian security forces in combating illicit drug cartels.
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Then, the focus was on breaking up monopolies, prohibiting cartels and blocking mergers.
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"These children are often being captured by traffickers, gangs, cartels," Mr. Azar said.
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As the kingpin strategy fractured the cartels, smaller groups rose in their place.
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Secrets for sale, it said, to a man who sold phones to cartels.
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Breaking the power of crime cartels in Mexico can seem an impossible task.
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For decades, combating Latin American cartels has been the D.E.A.'s raison d'être.
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But more importantly, the wall will be a gift to the drug cartels.
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But the cartels are not the only malignant forces involved in the bloodletting.
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The logic behind labeling drug cartels as terrorists is debatable but not outrageous.
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Cartels have workshops where they convert semiautomatic AR-15s into fully automatic weapons.
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BONES Brothers, Horses, Cartels, and the Borderland Dream By Joe Tone 329 pp.
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Can you describe the process in which people get involved with the cartels?
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Campaign group EU Arms said both weapons have featured in confiscations from cartels.
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It was around here, so the shopkeeper had suggested, the cartels were located.
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It is particularly concerning how cartels have taken over the human smuggling business.
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In the aftermath, President Trump threatened to designate the cartels as terrorist groups.
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The cartels don't care if you live in South Dakota or South Carolina.
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He has also struggled to curb the rampant violence among warring drug cartels.
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Trump said in comments broadcast on Tuesday that Mexico's cartels "will" be designated.
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But now you have a sort of distributed model for drug cartels. Right.
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Because when people talk about "the cartels," they aren't talking about a monolith.
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NOPEC, or the No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels Act, would authorize the Justice Department to sue groups like OPEC that are deemed cartels for price fixing and antitrust violations, stripping countries of sovereign immunity protections currently built into U.S. law.
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Mexico's 'War on Drugs' started in 2006 with former President Felipe Calderon, who sent in armed forces to tackle the increasingly powerful drug cartels, which had shifted gears from smuggling cocaine for the Colombian cartels to becoming full narcotrafficking operations themselves.
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In 2009, the LeBaron settlement was targeted by local drug cartels which kidnapped and murdered members of the communityIn the years after the Church of the First Born Lamb of God murders, the LeBaron family started having disputes with drug cartels.
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Different cartels have different strategies and reputations — and one key reason El Chapo is so revered in parts of Mexico is that he and the Sinaloa cartel are seen as less violent than newer cartels like the Gulf and the Zetas.
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Mexican drug cartels later began to buy it and resell it across the border.
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Cartels fight to control trafficking routes, human smuggling, extortion and kidnapping, among other activities.
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"The biggest lie is that building the wall will dismantle the cartels," he said.
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Mr Carswell is particularly impassioned about breaking up what he sees as political cartels.
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Panasonic avoided a fine as it alerted the Commmission to one of the cartels.
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It began roughly five years ago, partly from the remnants of other dismantled cartels.
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The Sinaloa cartel is one of the biggest and most powerful cartels in Mexico.
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In 2006, Mexican President Felipe Calderon drastically escalated the country's war on drug cartels.
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That's what the NCAA is fighting against, because that's what all cartels fight against.
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Better still would be an assault on the trucking cartels that keep prices high.
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Here is the President's story, archived alongside exposés of payday lenders and drug cartels.
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But his heavy-handed approach to drug cartels have made him controversial in Mexico.
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Why do cartels see foods like avocados and limes as strong options for diversification?
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I think the marijuana edibles market represents a big problem for the cartels, actually.
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Too many professions have begun behaving like cartels behind the guise of licensing requirements.
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"These international gangs and cartels will be a thing of the past," he said.
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Tensions first arose last weekend over the Philippine government's aggressive campaign against drug cartels.
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Mexico has unleashed its military against cartels since 2006, but failed to reduce violence.
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If the family was targeted by the cartels, it wouldn't be the first time.
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Many times more are believed to still be in the hands of the cartels.
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When Mexican cartels realized how lucrative it was, the meth making industry became turbocharged.
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She said Mexico's war on drug cartels had actually increased illicit use of opioids.
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Without a major market for their product, drug cartels would have vastly less power.
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They're being , bid out to the highest bidder, and we're talking about the cartels.
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The seizure cost the cartels an enormous investment in risk, costs, violence, and corruption.
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As a US Attorney, Comey created a unit devoted to prosecuting international drug cartels.
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At the same time, drug cartels have fought each other for control of territory.
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Those killed were likely the victims of drug cartels over the years, authorities said.
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Mexican cartels have been bringing meth into America for 20 years—it's nothing new.
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He also called out drug users for funding "violent, cruel, and ruthless" Mexican cartels.
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And indeed, when it comes to cartels, current antitrust enforcement does guard against it.
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ME: Can you describe the process in which people get involved with the cartels?
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Organized criminal groups and drug cartels were suspects in each of these recent massacres.
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Thousands of children are being exploited by ruthless "coyotes" and vicious cartels and gangs.
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U.S. and Mexico agreed on a joint strategy against the drug cartels in 2017.
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The study also suggests that cartels from different African countries were assisting one another.
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Even people in the private sector, witnesses have said, took cash from the cartels.
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Local governments cannot govern because they are outgunned and corrupted by the drug cartels.
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I'd sniffed out Rasputins in political organizations, in pop culture partnerships, in drug cartels.
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When that system disappeared, drug cartels filled the vacuum, buying off mayors and judges.
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But their increasing frequency points to an alarming rise in violence between warring cartels.
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Gabbard accused Buttigieg of proposing to send troops to Mexico to fight drug cartels.
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Urapan has seen episodes of grisly murder linked to drug cartels in the past.
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Officials and experts say Iran has loose ties to drug cartels and money launderers.
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Mexico has used its military in a war on drug cartels since late 2006.
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She knew he worked for the cartels, even if she didn't know how exactly.
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It was the early 1980s and cocaine cartels had been gaining power in Colombia.
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Two decades ago, Colombia was nearly overrun by guerrilla armies, paramilitaries and drug cartels.
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Soon after, President Donald Trump proposed a solution: designate the cartels as terrorist organizations.
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"Absolutely disrespectful the joke of the 'cartels," one social media user wrote on Twitter.
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A series of high-profile killings have brought the cartels back into Trump's focus.
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These incidents have put pressure on López Obrador to clamp down on the cartels.
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It has been unable to end the massive corruption fueled by drug cartels. Why?
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"They're terrorists, these cartels, whether they are declared as such or not," LeBaron said.
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Republicans have voiced support for designating cartels as terrorist groups in the past. Reps.
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Border agents said "anyone trying to stop us is probably benefiting from the cartels".
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And many of these clandestine groups have ties to Mexico's horrifically violent drug cartels.
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It's encouraging that we can bring significant elements of the drug cartels to justice.
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In Texas and Arizona, the cartels have even gotten involved with white supremacist groups.
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Putting tax dollars into books and education for kids as opposed to illicit cartels.
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And it's not just a theoretical exercise; Wasser's technique just exposed three major export cartels operating in Africa from 2011 to 2014, namely cartels exporting illegal ivory from the port cities of Entebbe in Uganda, Lomé in Togo, and Mombasa in Kenya.
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In the case of Mexican targets, these were not friends or confidents of the drug cartels—these were investigative journalists reporting on the drug cartels, including two colleagues and the widow of a journalist who was murdered in a cartel-linked hit.
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But other industries, often related to the developers, also operate as monopolies, duopolies or cartels.
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Police said her arrest shows the lengths cartels will take to get drugs into America.
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Ms. Mota isn't the first politician to fall afoul of the cartels' new business interests.
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And currently, at least some of the money seized from cartels is already spoken for.
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Drug cartels have been behind the disappearances of people in the region, according to Winckler.
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She has pledged to end the growing influence of drug cartels in the armed forces.
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This means drugs are taking precedence for the cartels in this part of the region.
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EU REGULATORS SAY UBS NOT FINED AS IT ALERTED THE TWO CARTELS TO EU ENFORCERS
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For decades theirs was an underground enterprise, run by pacifist hippies and murderous drug cartels.
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Bystanders, people who refused to join cartels, migrants, journalists and government officials have been killed.
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"Cocaine cartels are about succession," says Javier Peña—played by Pedro Pascal—in the trailer.
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It soon became clear he was connected to the mob and South American drug cartels.
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Consider that he proposes prosecuting people who are fleeing those same cartels that he denounces.
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He said President Trump has directed him to lead an effort against international drug cartels.
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Security officials blamed the violence on a fierce rivalry between drug cartels inside that prison.
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The US Marshals have even lent the devices out to Mexican officials hunting down cartels.
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As a result, public decapitations have become a particularly prominent tactic of ruthless drug cartels.
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Veracruz is home to various turf battles among rival cartels, including the hyper-violent Zetas.
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Working for cartels and leaving their home behind is sometimes necessary to save their lives.
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Marijuana reform in the United States has already eaten into the business of Mexican cartels.
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It paid the Sicilians' debts to Colombian cocaine cartels, effectively buying them out as partners.
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"Any soldiers whether Mexican or American are a valuable resource to [the cartels]," said Boak.
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They shut it down so firmly that the cartels left the area and went elsewhere.
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For instance, Reyes said the two countries will continue to cooperate in fighting drug cartels.
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He is an Avenger for the planet — literally out there fighting the cartels right now.
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But even as Mexico stepped up its pressure on cartels, he remained an elusive target.
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When leaders such as Guzman are taken out, others replace them or the cartels splinter.
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What's further, the legalization of marijuana has been a boon for criminal gangs and cartels.
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The agency is cracking down on the trucks and hitting the cartels where it hurts.
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When he started out, the cartels seemed almost pleased by the idea of the page.
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The originators of these three spin-off cartels are mostly now dead or in jail.
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"The country where you see Mexican cartels act most violently has been Guatemala," he continues.
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But experts and analysts don't see the gang as a danger comparable to those cartels.
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By regulating and allowing for legal marijuana we are taking those dollars away from cartels.
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The trade is so lucrative that the drug cartels have become involved in the poaching.
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There is no pressing national security threat — no invasion of murderers, drug cartels or terrorists.
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All five banks received separate 10 percent reductions for acknowledging their participation in the cartels.
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And drug cartels are constantly adapting their methods and finding ways to bypass the technology.
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Whereas with the male leaders of the cartels, there were exaggerations of what they did.
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They are at the mercy of cartels and kidnappers, who see them as easy prey.
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Most of that money goes to drug cartels that have taken over the profitable business.
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Fear of drug cartels Perez said the hunger strike is more than a symbolic gesture.
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Obrador's approach to the cartels is a policy called "abrazos, no balazos" — hugs, not bullets.
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It could also open doors for the US military to use force against the cartels.
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Drug-related prosecutions tend to cluster there because of trafficking activity involving the Mexican cartels.
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Americans who were already hooked turned to heroin, which is largely supplied by Mexican cartels.
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And manpower to supplement the wall, find and dislocate tunnels and keep out criminal cartels.
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So the US government puts the cartels on its list of terrorists and declares war.
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Although power dynamics among cartels are always shifting, the US Drug Enforcement Administration names six other major cartels, not including Sinaloa, that were powerful in recent years as of July 2015: Los Zetas, Tijuana/AFO, Juárez/CFO, Beltrán Leyva, Gulf, and La Familia Michoacana.
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"Payday" - The corruption of payday lenders "Drug Short" - Wall Street and Big Pharma"Cartel Bank" - HSBC laundering money for Mexican drug cartels"The Maple Syrup Heist" - A Canadian maple syrup mystery that somehow leads back to cartels Dirty Money premieres on Netflix Jan. 26.
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Trump offered to 'wage WAR on the drug cartels and wipe them off the face of the earth'Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of the US Customs and Border Protection agency, told reporters last week that the cartels' increasing sophistication was responsible for the rising trend.
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But the situation in Mexico is very different: If the US designates the drug cartels as terrorist organizations and sends troops to Mexico, the Mexican government would perceive it as an impingement on national sovereignty, and bilateral efforts to combat the cartels would likely stall.
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Diamond price is further stabilized by cartels that determine the quantity of gemstones released to market.
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They're expensive to build, and cartels have to build them deep in jungles to avoid detection.
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And last night we told you about foreign cartels infiltrating states where pot is now legal.
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INGRAHAM: So this is Chinese, Mexican, and Cuban, a lot of the cartels, is that right?
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The illegal immigrant smuggling trade is dominated by predatory "coyotes" connected to Mexico's worst drug cartels.
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The two groups are wings of cartels fighting over drug distribution routes, particularly for crystal meth.
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As cartels splinter following the death or arrest of their leaders, they fight among each other.
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"It's very clear that the cartels and smugglers know the weaknesses in our laws," McAleenan said.
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Migrants are particular targets in cities across the borders, with kidnappings by the cartels shockingly commonplace.
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Cartels seeking to control communities and towns have often targeted local officials and mayors in Mexico.
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But it's been more than a decade since the Commission last used that possibility outside cartels.
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Swiss peer UBS was not fined as it alerted the two cartels to the European Commission.
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Members of local cartels and gangs have become adept at targeting Mexico's vast network of pipelines.
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It certainly isn't far off from Uber investor Shervin Pishevar's unforgettably weird "iniquitous taxi cartels" rant.
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Congress could revive a bill dubbed the No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels Act, or NOPEC.
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Mexican drug cartels take in between $22014 billion and $22008 billion annually from US drug sales.
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Unlike drug cartels, which strive to operate in the shadows, criminal street gangs often relish publicity.
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Why do you think the drug cartels and political corruption go hand in hand in Mexico?
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At the extreme, militias, drug cartels and others are using commercial and consumer drones as weapons.
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But the cartels realize their biggest profit margins in synthetic drugs such as methamphetamine and fentanyl.
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The U.S. and its allies must place more attention on disrupting cooperation between cartels and terrorists.
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Bystanders, people who refused to join cartels, migrants, journalists and government officials have all been killed.
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The cartels saw increased demand for the drug and replaced their marijuana operations to meet it.
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The evidence in places like Colorado is that the cartels can't compete with the legal market.
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Cannabis once grew in secret, traded by murderous cartels and smoked by consumers who risked jail.
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They are often connected to big drug cartels, they are not just gangs of kids anymore.
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In one way he harked back to a more innocent Mexico, without violence and drug cartels.
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Among other groups, Mexican cartels are now increasingly present in Tumaco and elsewhere the FARC withdrew.
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Martinez said Chapo's main suppliers from Colombia at the time were the Medellin and Cali cartels.
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And perhaps more important, he failed to mention that cartels sow their terror with American guns.
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In the former case you relegate control to drug cartels, in the latter to war criminals.
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They said they took up arms to defend themselves from kidnappings, extortion and killings by cartels.
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But some of the self-defense or vigilante groups later became infiltrated by cartels and gangs.
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The Juárez Cartel, one of Mexico's major drug cartels, is based on Ciudad Juarez in Chihuahua.
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Organized crime networks like the Mexican cartels and the European mafia are now the growing threat.
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The vast profits that the cocaine trade brought to the Mexican cartels was a game changer.
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Many of the weapons are suspected to have landed in the hands of Mexican drug cartels.
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Lopez Obrador has pledged to eradicate corruption and subdue drug cartels with a less confrontational approach.
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Ironically enough, Hernandez has publicly entertained the idea of cops and cartels working in tandem before.
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What's happened, though, are the cartels and all of these bad people, they're using the kids.
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Have the cartels used strategies in the past that show how they'll deal with a wall?
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Two decades later, from 2010 to 2014, the commission imposed fines on cartels totaling €8.7 billion.
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They manage because they have the connections with local police, the cartels and other criminal groups.
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He was killed, we think, by a weapon the Obama administration gifted the Mexican drug cartels.
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And Mexican cartels control virtually all of the American market, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration.
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That's why Americans must recognize that every time they buy illegal drugs they reward the cartels.
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In the past, it was the Colombian cartels that ran this business, paying off Venezuelan officials.
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The cartels have a similar thing going on in South America with their coca-leaf suppliers.
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I asked Santiago why the gangs, with all their manpower, never tried to tax the cartels.
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With the government war on them, the gangs could hardly afford a fight with the cartels.
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Among them: spraying coca crops from planes and capturing the heads of cartels and extraditing them.
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He later made a name for himself as a speedy smuggler who worked with Colombian cartels.
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I'm pretty sure that the cartels are using minors for a lot of their drug dealing.
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Many of the homicides are linked to violence among drug cartels fighting for control of territory.
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Some ask her for green cards, lovers, health, protection against violent drug cartels or immigration agents.
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Before marijuana was legal, this money was going to the black market, to the drug cartels.
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It is not new for the United States to consider listing drug cartels as terrorist organizations.
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This could undermine bilateral efforts to deal with the challenges of cartels, human smuggling and refugees.
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All of them said they suspected Mexican immigration officials were working in coordination with the cartels.
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In Colombia, where cartels rule by force, cooperating with law enforcement could be a death sentence.
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Then came democracy and former president Felipe Calderón's attempts to go after the cartels head-on.
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Police in the area are notoriously corrupt, and cartels exercise control over much of the region.
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"All necessary work has been completed to declare Mexican Cartels terrorist organizations," Trump said on Twitter.
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Trump's threat to designate Mexican cartels as terrorist groups had also met resistance within his administration.
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Meanwhile, Chinese fentanyl smugglers are working with Mexican cartels on U.S. distribution and must be stopped.
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This approach has been criticized for fostering more violence, both by state forces and fragmented cartels.
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OPEC has returned to its traditional behavior ("OPEC and other commodity cartels", Alhajji and Huettner, 2000).
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For years, authorities in Mexico City have denied the presence of drug cartels in the capital.
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The country has been dealing with violence for years, as authorities continue to battle drug cartels.
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Mexican drug cartels wouldn't exist if they didn't have a market north of the Rio Grande.
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Gangs and cartels were too smart to deal with companies that appeared out of thin air.
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What's worse, capturing or killing the heads of drug cartels can actually lead to more violence.
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The two cartels now fight over turf in Morelos and neighboring Guerrero State, leaving piles of bodies.
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Sometimes cartels cut out the middleman and put one of their own directly in the town hall.
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In the state of Chihuahua 14 men were killed in a shoot-out between rival drug cartels.
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According to the survey, the Mexican government's weakness toward cartels has caused much of the widespread killing.
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That we have to figure out a way to go after the cartels and not each other.
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But cartels are taking it to calamitous new dimensions and, in the process, bolstering their bottom line.
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Cartels routinely festoon Salamanca with "narcomantas," banners that mark territory or spell out grisly threats to rivals.
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Mexico's cartels are also taking advantage of our porous border and flooding our communities with deadly drugs.
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The homeland security investigation are the guys that go after the gang bangers and the drug cartels.
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U.S. demand for drugs changes little The United States is the biggest market for Mexican drug cartels.
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A large portion of the money ends up in the hands of police, immigration agents and cartels.
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The state has been wracked by violence over the years as cartels competed for power and influence.
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Felipe Calderón: What is happening in Mexico is far beyond drugs and fighting drugs or drug cartels.
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It may be the first study to link Mexican cartels, ISIS and reality TV villain Spencer Pratt.
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With Sinaloa less powerful, other cartels have emerged to challenge them for control of the drug trade.
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Beyond the death toll, the cartels remain corrupting forces that exert control over every level of government.
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Swiss bank UBS was not fined as it had alerted the two cartels to the European Commission.
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The North Valley cartel was one of many smaller cartels that operated under the umbrella of Cali.
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Drug cartels in Latin America have entered the illegal logging and gold mining business in Latin America.
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Trump's orders aim to stop crime, prevent violence against law enforcement, and crack down on drug cartels.
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For decades, Latin American cartels have trafficked cocaine through fragile west African states and on to Europe.
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Below are examples of other commodity cartels in recent history which have lost their price-setting powers.
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In agricultural markets, there are no cartels like OPEC to bring producers together to negotiate output cuts.
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Drug cartels often have local security forces in their pockets, government purges of police ranks have shown.
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Journalists operating in Mexico are in constant danger of violence from cartels if they don't censor themselves.
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Now, he thinks he can team up with Colombian cartels — former Narcos territory – to expand his empire.
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He's no longer a powerless figure, consigned to tapping the cartels' phones and staying out of trouble.
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Cartels have a knack for infiltrating security details like a "coyote looking after the chicken," she said.
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But as cocaine consumption rose and cartels started killing people, the tribes lost control of the plant.
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The Jalisco New Generation Cartel is one of the fastest-growing and most powerful cartels in Mexico.
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"The whole slum is messy because the cartels do not do their job as expected," said Akim.
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U.S. drug sales in Mexico generate an estimated $19 to $29 billion annually for Mexican drug cartels.
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Because of the violence between cartels, we had to move to a new house every three months.
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I also don't think it's worth it to the cartels to get involved with legal government channels.
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If there is a cash incentive, what's to stop cartels from sneaking an extremist into the U.S.?
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South American countries will dismantle cooperation between cartels and terrorists, decrease drug-trafficking, and diminish illicit activities.
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He condemned corruption and drug cartels, but the deeply unpopular Mexican government escaped with hardly a scratch.
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By 2010, drug cartels and corruption had taken deep holds across the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua.
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What circumstances led these young Mexican-American teenagers into the life of crime that the cartels offered?
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State-aligned paramilitaries and drug cartels have contributed to the violence, with atrocities committed by all sides.
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They are among thousands of Africans and Asian migrants making the arduous journey, led by smuggling cartels.
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Hernandez has sought political office unsuccessfully before and portrayed himself as an enemy of Mexican drug cartels.
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These things are still occurring today, but they are even more pervasive, thanks to the crime cartels.
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C.—a dangerous situation, because the community police could be caught between the government and the cartels.
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The secret marijuana sites are organized, funded and operated by Mexican cartels, said US Attorney McGregor Scott.
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It has broken up powerful monopolies and cartels in a way national governments acting alone could not.
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"The cartels move about $110 billion a year from the United States to Mexico," Cassidy told Breitbart.
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The area was dominated by drug cartels, according to López Obrador's aides, and the economy was troubled.
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Meanwhile, Mexico's drug cartels killed the same number of people as the violence in Iraq in 6900.
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Many of them had come from the front lines of a decade-long war against drug cartels.
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Criminal cartels, hostile states, and terrorist groups today form hybrid threat alliances that extend through their finances.
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A Don Corleone-esque figure, Don Neto helped pave the way for modern Mexican drug trafficking cartels.
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ICAP denied wrongdoing while the banks admitted taking part in the cartels in return for lower fines.
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Leaders of other cartels have similarly fallen victim to their own overconfidence and failure to lie low.
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Muñoz was scouting in Mexico for season 4 ... where Peña zeroes in on the Mexican drug cartels.
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A Juárez newspaper once published a chilling headline, directed towards the cartels, titled '¿Qué quiere de nosotros?
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"Imagine a world in which oil cartels will no longer use energy as a weapon," he said.
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Bloggers have written how-to guides on figuring out whether or not your weed comes from cartels.
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Coyotes often have to pay a fee to drug cartels, which are also in on the game.
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Spies all over the world — as well as drug cartels — have realized the power of these technologies.
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Brazilian authorities blamed warring cartels for two prison riots that killed more than 20.8871 people last year.
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Shortly after taking office, the new president declared war on the cartels and sent in the military.
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When the ingredients became difficult to come by in the United States, Mexican drug cartels stepped in.
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Grillo previously penned El Narco, which profiled how Mexican cartels rose to power in the mid-aughts.
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At the time, Mr. Winckler Ortiz said that they were most likely the victims of drug cartels.
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Over the years, its mission expanded to include combating bootleggers and later drug cartels and terrorist groups.
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Some of the bullet points included multiple alleged targets, including informants and members of rival drug cartels.
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In 2003, he was sentenced to 2200 years for providing sensitive law enforcement information to drug cartels.
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Mr. Herrera-Chiang, who was assigned to a special undercover unit targeting the cartels in Yuma, Ariz.
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The gangs and cartels and criminal syndicates terrorizing our people will be stripped apart one by one.
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In fact, human smugglers for the cartels use the surrender of family units as a diversionary tactic.
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"Profit margins for fentanyl and methamphetamine are driving the drug trade by the cartels," the statement said.
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Jose Ismael Irizarry was sent to Cartagena to investigate money laundering by Colombia's notoriously violent drug cartels.
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A Juarez newspaper once published a chilling headline, directed towards the cartels, titled '¿Qué quiere de nosotros?
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Its role — protecting consumers from cartels, anticompetitive mergers and exclusionary conduct — is essential to making markets work.
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Members of the LeBaron group from Chihuahua have had a history of conflict with Mexican drug cartels.
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Labeling the cartels as terrorist groups could bolster legal challenges to the policy by immigrant-rights groups.
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When people think of cannabis production in developing countries, they tend to picture drug cartels and bandits.
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"All necessary work has been completed to declare Mexican Cartels terrorist organizations," Mr. Trump wrote on Twitter.
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Instead, it might make sense to expand the number of cartels that are labeled transnational criminal organizations.
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And we are seeing vulnerable people looking for economic hope oppressed and trafficked by transnational criminal cartels.
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Garcia Luna spearheaded former President Felipe Calderon's military-led crackdown on drug cartels launched in late 2006.
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China has historically been the main supplier of precursor chemicals and illicitly manufactured fentanyl to Mexico's cartels.
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And many of those unofficial separations were probably not cartels, but families separated based on thin suspicions.
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Drug cartels, after years of ravaging poorer communities, had begun to target the richest of the rich.
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These efforts had aimed to disrupt and dismantle cartels affecting both sides of the border, she added.
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The clumsy program that ran from late 2009 until early 2011 was intended to weaken Mexican cartels.
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A decade ago, Mexico declared war on the country's drug cartels, deploying the military to dismantle them.
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A look at the Mexican government's decade-long effort to break up drug cartels by targeting their leaders.
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One of the most disturbing discoveries in his undercover work was the connection between drug cartels and terrorism.
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And the largest rise in fatalities occurred in states where cartels compete for control of drug trafficking routes.
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Once at the school, he said, he worries that some of the students are working for the cartels.
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If the violence and drug cartels become more powerful, the effects could spill over into the United States.
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READ: Drug cartels are preying on migrants forced to wait in Mexico These are boom times for Daniel.
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We will partner with state and local law enforcement to take down drug trafficking cartels and dismantle gangs.
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This area is preferable to the border cities, where cartels have turned kidnapping migrants into a business model.
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She is being prosecuted with "crimes typically reserved for the mafia and drug cartels," attorney Eric Tennen said.
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The authors are certainly right that crackdowns on the border with Mexico have created business for criminal cartels.
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It is not just electricity that is provided by violent cartels; so is water, rubbish collection and security.
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Two, the innocents who are massacred, in the cartels' quest for power, will not take death lying down.
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Human smuggling is "not the business model of the cartels," Correa-Cabrera said, but extortion most certainly is.
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Legalizing drugs is the best way to combat cartels, according to Vicente Fox, the former president of Mexico.
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Barr cited other terrorist incidents and referenced drug cartels, who are using encrypted platforms to hide their communication.
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And unions look like monopoly sellers of labour—cartels, intended to leech rents from society as a whole.
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The government has registered more than 250,000 homicides since Mexico launched an aggressive war on cartels in 2006.
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Inside knowledge can be a powerful tool to help the Commission uncover cartels and other anti-competitive practices.
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" Added Arnold Schwarzenegger on Twitter, "Judge Curiel is an American hero who stood up to the Mexican cartels.
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The rivalry with other drug cartels has spurred an ongoing drug war that's left thousands of Mexicans dead.
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Sessions and Kelly both say they are following the President's executive order aimed at combating transnational drug cartels.
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The cartels, in years past, have used the rural and mountainous Pike County to grow marijuana, authorities say.
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The CJNG is also fighting for control of Michoacan and Guerrero states against an array of smaller cartels.
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And if you doubt that legalizing this way bankrupts cartels, ask yourself: Where's the Pablo Escobar of gin?
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Law enforcement officials say the county's location has made it an ideal distribution hub for Mexican drug cartels.
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Much of the crop was smuggled to the United States before drug cartels began producing more profitable cocaine.
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Together, we are telling the gangs, the cartels, the fraudsters, and the terrorists—we are coming after you.
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In the United States, speculation has focused on Mexican cartels as being the main pushers from the drug.
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Since then, tests have revealed candidates who were compromised by drug cartels or were heavy drug users themselves.
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Rivalries between the cartels wreak havoc on the lives of civilians who have nothing to do with narcotics.
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Thousands of Mexican soldiers were sent to Juarez to fight the cartels who were held responsible for bloodshed.
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Other proposals, like a tax on remittances or seizing money from drug cartels are equally difficult or impractical.
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Mexican drug cartels take in between $19 and $29 billion annually from drug sales in the United States.
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Most fentanyl comes to the U.S. from Chinese manufacturers via Mexican drug cartels, according to a federal report.
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The Commission said the affected companies may have violated antitrust rules that bar cartels and restrictive business practices.
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This kind of violence would seem counter to cartels' interests, as it attracts more scrutiny, Aviña said Friday.
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Mexico has faced waves of violence since the government deployed the army to fight drug cartels in 2006.
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The largest of Mexico's criminal groups, like the Sinaloa cartel, are perhaps the world's most well-known cartels.
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Literally awash in money, many Mexican cartels struggled to launder and spend all the money they were making.
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Going after the cartels' business model by addressing TBML is a new, workable solution to protect our communities.
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Tulsi Gabbard ripped into him for suggesting we should send U.S. troops to Mexico to battle the cartels.
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That has raised suspicions that survivors have used mergers and acquisitions to create cartels and illegally raise prices.
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Other subjects addressed include driverless cars, Donald J. Trump's hair, packages delivered by drones and Mexican drug cartels.
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Langford believes that the victims drove through the disputed region and were killed by one of the cartels.
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Americans are buying it in record numbers, and highly organized drug cartels are spreading it far and wide.
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The complexity and indirectness of the relationship between gangs and cartels remains murky and difficult for law enforcement.
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" "I'm very concerned with having murderers and drug traffickers and drugs and drug cartels pouring into our country.
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They are among thousands of African and Asian migrants also making the arduous journey, led by smuggling cartels.
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The book's message is that if you want to crush the cartels, you'd better understand how they work.
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It's been more than a decade since Mexico launched its war on the country's most powerful drug cartels.
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He has promised to curtail corruption and take a different approach to Mexico's militarized fight against drug cartels.
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The government has registered more than 20143,000 homicides since it launched an aggressive war on cartels in 2006.
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Ultimately, the church's tools for covering up wrongdoing differ dramatically from those of drug cartels or corrupt politicians.
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If true, his testimony would suggest that corruption by drug cartels reached the highest level of Mexico's government.
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Drug cartels, human smugglers and the elements pose deadly risks to anyone who comes across the border illegally.
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The volatile local economy makes the streets especially ripe for recruitment by one of Brazil's fastest growing cartels.
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The implosion of Colombian cartels set off a fierce competition in Mexico for control of the drug trade.
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In the cartels run by just one or a few individuals, vacuums left by arrests are quickly filled.
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Fed-up avocado producers have taken up arms against the cartels, and have hit the streets in protests.
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In the last decade, drug cartels have created highly sophisticated tunnels in the region to get drugs through.
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With distribution into the lucrative US market cornered by Mexican cartels, Brazil's gangs trained their sights on Europe.
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Some reporters in semi-lawless states openly admit to receiving extra money from cartels to sway their coverage.
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Latin American drug cartels are also getting synthetic opioids from Asia and moving them into the United States.
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Last year, 49 drug-smuggling aircraft used by cartels were found in Guatemala, according to local media reports.
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Cartels and their senior leaders could also be designated under an existing executive order that targets terrorist threats.
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The cartels keep records of the people they kidnap, according to the person with knowledge of their operations.
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While at the FBI, Bob consecutively focused on La Cosa Nostra, the Colombian cartels, and Russian organized crime.
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But the decision sends a message that cartels will be allowed to use violence to get their way.
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Rice Moore, the novel's protagonist, lands in Virginia, having escaped trouble involving Mexican drug cartels operating in Arizona.
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Despite its name, migrants enrolled in the MPP are often kidnapped or extorted by gangs and drug cartels.
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The cartels could say we are going to start killing civilians every day until you release our guy.
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As the government has increased security on the Mexican border, drug cartels have been forced to get creative.
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But the increase has also become a boon to Mexican cartels, who have extorted avocados farmers for money.
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The reason for the drop in prices is the scale of production that the Mexican cartels have achieved.
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Perhaps the source of our addiction lay deep in our genes, beyond poppies or cartels or Big Pharma.
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In this distressing political landscape, how can Mexico and the United States work together to fight drug cartels?
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Periods of violence, extortion and threats from drug cartels and other criminal groups delivered them to this moment.
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Buttigieg was asked during the event, one question that directly referred to cartels and one that did not.
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In Grillo's NYT piece, he specifically cites "Kalashnikovs and AR-85033s" as weapons of choice for the cartels.
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While Mexican cartels territorial stronghold is within their own country, they have representatives on every continent except Antarctica.
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We will partner with state and local law enforcement to take down drug-trafficking cartels and dismantle gangs.
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There's two main cartels in Rio: Third Command and Red Command, and the milicia is just another faction.
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They are under threat from drug cartels and dependent on American volunteers for even the most basic necessities.
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While Mexican cartels' territorial stronghold is within their own country, they have representatives on every continent except Antarctica.
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Cartels are battling over drug trafficking routes in the southwestern state, home to the beach resort of Acapulco.
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President Trump has pulled the mask from the cartels; we will complete the picture of this collective abomination.
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The real danger, many here said, lies in drug trafficking conducted through sophisticated tunnel systems built by cartels.
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You need forces outside the domain of software and servers to break up cartels with this much power.
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Galán had declared war on the country's drug cartels, who knew they'd be finished if he was elected.
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"The cartels would easily undercut any legal dispensaries, if not control them through intimidation and corruption", he said.
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As governments cracked down on cocaine production in Peru and Bolivia in the 1990s, cartels shifted to Colombia.
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Mark GreenMark GreenTrump says he will designate Mexican drug cartels as terror organizations House GOP criticizes impeachment drive as distracting from national security issues Honoring service before self MORE (R-Tenn.) and Chip RoyCharles (Chip) Eugene RoyTrump says he will designate Mexican drug cartels as terror organizations Texas GOP rep predicts heavy Democratic presence in state ahead of 2020 Billboards calling on House Republicans to 'do their job' follow members home for Thanksgiving MORE (R-Texas) wrote a letter to Secretary of State Mike PompeoMichael (Mike) Richard PompeoOvernight Defense: Ex-Navy secretary slams Trump in new op-ed | Impeachment tests Pompeo's ties with Trump | Mexican president rules out US 'intervention' against cartels Exposing the contradictions in Trump's assault on climate change policy Mexican president tells Trump 'no intervention,' only cooperation on combating cartels MORE in February requesting that the U.S. label violent drug cartels as terrorist organizations.
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Since drugs are so lucrative, drug producers and traffickers don't just cease to exist when governments detain or kill them The general point is that taking out heads of cartels or the cartels themselves won't rid the world of drugs, but will instead shift the drug trade to other criminals.
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Mark GreenMark GreenPresident Trump's Iran strategy is working Trump says he will 'temporarily hold off' on declaring Mexican drug cartels as terror organization Trump says he will designate Mexican drug cartels as terror organizations MORE is a graduate of West Point and a combat veteran who served in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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The cartels and coyotes are having a greater and greater impact on the Mexican side of our Southern Border.
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So that&aposs all organized by the cartels and we have to a make sure that we stop that.
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But the other thing is, again, I go to the root cause, the drug cartels are really fueling this.
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The drug cartels aren't vanishing because marijuana is legalized, and they will probably look to other forms of profit.
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A startling report from NBC News this morning reveals that foreign cartels embrace homegrown marijuana in pot-legal states.
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Securing that our border, the threats I can tell you, not only drug cartels, opioids, but also the terrorists.
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Around 1 billion containers are shipped worldwide on an annual basis, a statistic that's not lost on criminal cartels.
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Under federal law, assets seized by the US from Mexican drug cartels are often unavailable to victims of terrorism.
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The rest of the dangerous countries on the list are generally ones battling international conflict, terrorism, or drug cartels.
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AREU: The democrats are benefiting from the drugs and coyotes and... WATTERS: No, I am saying the cartels are.
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"His argument then, as I recall, was put the cartels and the bad guys out of business," Stone said.
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The dangerous treks, the abuse by gangs and cartels, and the extreme physical dangers, and it must be solved.
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Sri Lanka has become an attractive transit point for major drug cartels into Asia thanks to its geographical location.
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But the cartels' power and ability to corrupt the police and other public institutions requires fresh solutions, he insists.
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In turn, retail prices rose, giving cartels an opportunity to undercut those prices through black-market sales of gasoline.
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López Obrador has rejected a strategy of head-on confrontation with the cartels, saying it leads to more violence.
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In the tumultuous 43s and 1930s Japan's leaders introduced laws designed not to prohibit cartels, but to encourage them.
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Most past investigations into cartels by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) have looked at trade in goods.
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Eventually other drug cartels, such as the Knights Templar and the Michoacana Family began, copying the strategy, Reforma reported.
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It can be hard to resist the money and the help from cartels, particularly when murderous kidnappers are involved.
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Those rules do what cartels are built to do: consolidate their own power and crush those who defy them.
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Much of the underlying law governing cartels, mergers and competition is quite similar on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Zakaria asked Peña Nieto whether he envisioned the battle against the drug cartels lessening in the next several years.
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Other Colombian cities tweaked Cali's evidence-based policing to suit their own needs—Medellín, for example, targeted drug cartels.
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U.S. authorities have been fighting Mexican drug cartels since the beginning of the modern drug trade in the Americas.
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Meanwhile thousands of bystanders, people who refuse to join cartels, migrants, journalists, and government officials are increasingly being killed.
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The president has defended his policy of trying to dial down clashes with drug cartels to reduce murder rates.
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Analysts warn the government has not clearly explained how it will use the National Guard to outsmart the cartels.
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The crime network is also less prone to uncontrolled outbreaks of internecine violence than the Latin cartels, police say.
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Officials say the cartels ship their product directly to Dayton, less than a 10-minute drive from the intersection.
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It happens when the guys are leaders of rival drug cartels and their fight spirals into full-on anarchy.
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Fabian Felipe Vera Lopez was sanctioned for supporting Los Cunis DTO, and Maria Teresa Quintana Navarro supported both cartels.
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The agency began using polygraph tests in 2010 to weed out applicants with criminal histories or ties to cartels.
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" "Narcos," according to its description on Netflix, is "the true story of Colombia's infamously violent and powerful drug cartels.
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There, he became an expert in the F.B.I.'s Miami office on Colombian drug cartels and Russian organized crime.
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But Mexican cartels were born to serve consumers in the United States, the world's biggest consumer of illicit drugs.
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At least eight armed groups once worked under Guzman's command in Mexico, attacking competing cartels and members deemed traitors.
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Meanwhile cartels involving government officials, militants and oil employees stole tens of thousands of barrels of crude each day.
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Kelly praised the Mexican military, which has fought a decades-long war on drug cartels at great human cost.
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In more recent years, the LeBarón community had established a sort of truce with the cartels, Ms. Wariner said.
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Mexican prosecutors blamed cartels fighting a turf war over the lucrative routes smuggling drugs to Americans for the massacre.
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But, as with most cartels, self-serving people began to break the rules and the market competition remained intense.
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The Mexican authorities say the nation's soldiers are simply better trained and more skilled than the cartels they battle.
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That protection became vital after 2006, when the military entered the streets to battle the cartels and violence soared.
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Today, the consent decrees are the only obstacles keeping these cartels from throttling the growth of innovative music platforms.
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ON TAP FOR TOMORROW: A Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee will have a hearing on drug cartels at 2900 a.m.
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By the mid-2000s, Mexican drug cartels had become savvy online users, as had terrorist networks like Al Qaeda.
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Mexican cartels multiplied their profits by embracing the heroin trade, eventually coming to dominate the North American heroin market.
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According to Chihuahua authorities, 80% of homicides in the border city are linked to turf wars between drug cartels.
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Gabbard accused Buttigieg of saying he'd send the U.S. military into Mexico to deal with the drug cartels there.
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According to NBC News, drug cartels kidnapped Benjamin LeBaron — whose cousin Rhonita Miller died in Monday's attack — in 2000.
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The war between the Gulf and Sinaloa cartels caused the undue increase in strength and influence of Los Zetas.
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He tells me that he received several messages from people associated with the cartels asking him for his cooperation.
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After that the cartels began purchasing the cocaine directly from the Colombians at the border and selling it on.
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For his Oscar-nominated documentary "Cartel Land," he embedded himself with armed vigilante groups fighting the Mexican drug cartels.
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In Mexico, it is the military that has the drug enforcement mission, which includes fighting cartels and poppy eradication.
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Mexican security forces and local landowners have tried to fight back, but warring cartels continue to splinter and proliferate.
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Economic downturn could push even more people into crime and weaken the government's efforts to contain sprawling drug cartels.
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Trump attacked CNN International this week, joining autocrats, drug cartels and Islamic militants who also hate independent fact-finders.
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Though he and his fellow agents are primed to deal with Mexican cartels, the reality is much less threatening.
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But behind closed doors, they go to great lengths to fend off threatening politicians, drug cartels and the Mafia.
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While the big cartels command the attention of international law enforcement, micro-traffickers try to exploit the overwhelmed system.
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The installments range from an infuriating look at payday lending to an offbeat story about Canadian maple syrup cartels.
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UBS was involved in both groups, but was not fined because it disclosed the cartels' existence to the commission.
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Self-policing and self-governing, it is a sanctuary from drug cartels as well as from the Mexican state.
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The result may be less dramatic than Mr. Calderón's drug war, in which warring cartels publicly displayed dismembered corpses.
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Powerful drug trafficking cartels have long flouted gun regulations by smuggling weapons, mainly across the porous border with Paraguay.
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One of the biggest revenue streams for Mexico's cartels is kidnapping people, including thousands of Central Americans, each year.
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In Reynosa, Ms. Williams said, these cartels are systematically stalking migrants who have been turned away from the border.
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In Mexico, we have seen extraordinary things like the police working with the cartels, kidnapping, killing students, murdering innocents.
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Industry insiders say this informal trade helps launder money for politically connected cartels, which ship heroin the other way.
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With very few arrests it is unclear who is behind the murders, whether drug cartels or shady political operators.
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Mr. Longoria said the shift in tactics by cartels showed that the border technology was having the desired effect.
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We're not going to cover the Russia scandal as much as we're covering the cartels coming over the border.
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The interpenetration of the drug cartels and government in Mexico is another example of a deep state at work.
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Currently, some of those who break firearms laws to provide weapons to cartels get only lenient sentences including probation.
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President Trump tweeted on Friday that the U.S. will "temporarily hold off" on designating Mexican cartels as terrorist organizations.
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After that the cartels began purchasing the cocaine directly from the Colombians at the border and selling it on.
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"We identified three major export cartels operating in Africa between 2011 and 2014," Wasser's team said in the study.
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STEVE BANNON: The drug cartels today are making more money on trafficking these people than they are in drugs.
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By what logic does the federal government penalize states that are working to put drug cartels out of business?
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Kendra Lee Miller told CNN her family has recently been threatened by cartels over where her family can travel.
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In California and Arizona, they have told voters that legalizing marijuana will take power away from Mexican drug cartels.
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Early last month, nine women and children from a Mormon community in Mexico were killed by suspected drug cartels.
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He says the cartels case the bus stations and the streets near the immigration office looking for Central Americans.
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"Every asylum interview of a Mexican would have a separate examination of their interaction with the cartels," said Schulman.
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When Garcia Luna left office in 2012, magazine Proceso published a report pointing to his possible ties to cartels.
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Violent drug cartels are using more modern technology to breach our border than we are using to secure it.
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If true, it suggests that corruption by drug cartels had reached into the highest level of Mexico's political establishment.
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The inescapable power of the cartels gave that "Miss Bala" a feeling of claustrophobic terror and sometimes absurd fatalism.
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Nor are IS in cahoots with Mexican drug cartels, as claimed in 2014 by Arkansas Republican Senator Tom Cotton.
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Members of nearby drug cartels have already knocked on her door and offered her good money to do so.
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So he started using that money to get into the cocaine business, making contact with cartels in South America.
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Both of them claimed they don't do this work for the cartels, which have diversified portfolios beyond just narcotics.
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Imagine a world in which our foes, and the oil cartels, can no longer use energy as a weapon.
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He, too, has a nephew who was caught in the crossfire of rival cartels and died five years ago.
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In a Saturday mass in Ecatepec outside Mexico City, the pope equated the cartels with evil and the devil.
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During the interview she rehashed her life within the drug cartels and made it clear she felt no remorse.
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Tamaulipas is home to the Gulf and Zeta cartels that include people-smuggling and kidnapping among their criminal activities.
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Some have set up encampments in Mexican border towns, where they're increasingly preyed upon by gangs and drug cartels.
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In this sequel to the 2015 film, Mexican cartels are smuggling contract killers and violent criminals across the border.
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A stack of history books about South American cartels are spread across the coffee table in front of him.
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Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Wednesday he's not open to intervention but only "cooperation" with the U.S. on fighting drug cartels, a day after President TrumpDonald John TrumpOvernight Defense: Ex-Navy secretary slams Trump in new op-ed | Impeachment tests Pompeo's ties with Trump | Mexican president rules out US 'intervention' against cartels EXCLUSIVE: 85033 Dem Andrew Yang releases tax returns Giuliani calls Trump to say he was joking about 'insurance policy' MORE said he was prepared to designate Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations.
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But with cartels now diversified into a portfolio of crimes and taking over the political establishment, it won't stop them.
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In 2013, the authority imposed a 1.5 billion euro penalty on banks, who were involved in cartels on financial derivatives.
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He's also pushed his plans for a border wall partially on the grounds it will help fight Mexican drug cartels.
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I&aposm sure Antifa doesn&apost care because they are almost as bad as drug cartels to be quite frank.
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In the ensuing media spectacle, journalists pointed out that Bolivia and Colombia are both suppliers of cocaine for Mexican cartels.
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As the movie Miss Bala suggests, the women may not have much of a say in their association with cartels.
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That has raised suspicions that survivors have used M&A as a way to create cartels and illegally raise prices.
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Instead, they operate through cartels, groups, and individual drug traffickers and money launderers -- the agencies or instrumentalities of the FARC.
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His statements outlined detailed allegations of how government officials were involved with Mexican cartels to traffic illegal drugs in Argentina.
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Unlike Ishmael's human cargo, the cartels have to smuggle it in small quantities to make millions of dollars in profit.
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Calderón's critics say his decision to deploy the military against the drug cartels led to the massive increase in killings.
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The approach, dubbed the "kingpin strategy," has splintered the cartels into warring factions, fueling internecine conflicts and bloody turf wars.
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The approach would feature less armed conflict with cartels and try to solve the problem in a long-term way.
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In addition to hiding from immigration authorities, migrants have to worry about being attacked or extorted by gangs and cartels.
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U.S. and Mexican officials initially reveled in his capture, hailing it as an achievement in Mexico's battle against drug cartels.
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Civil wars, criminal cartels, and even terror groups such as ISIS are funded by proceeds from illegally traded natural resources.
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In many cases, improvements—such as proper piped water—brought in by well-meaning outsiders are vandalised by the cartels.
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In return, the cartels patrol the southern side of the border, looking for immigrants attempting to cross on their own.
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But with both drug lords locked up and their respective cartels in disarray, it's highly unlikely they'll ever pay up.
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Then when drug cartels made the trips too dangerous, Alton came up with the idea for Tiny Tim's Toy Factory.
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Details: The legislation at issue is called the No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels Act (thus the apt acronym NOPEC).
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Self-propelled submersible vessels, often called "narco-subs," are sometimes used by cartels and traffickers to smuggle drugs across borders.
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One of the oldest Mexican drug cartels, the Gulf cartel is based in eastern Mexico along the Gulf Coast states.
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The strategy of smashing cartels and targeting gang leaders was causing them to fracture into more deadly and unpredictable gangs.
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"But in general terms, I would say that, yes, Mexico has seen progress [in fighting drug cartels]," the President said.
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Two drug cartels were fighting, King said, and young men from mostly poor communities were getting caught in the violence.
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You say that cartels act as monopsonies, forcing coca leaf farmers to eat costs instead of raising prices for consumers.
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In Mexico, they operate with the Zeta and Sinaloa drug cartels, where they transport narcotics and hire out as assassins.
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It's no wonder British police believe that there were up to 100 criminal gangs working as "puppy cartels" in 2015.
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For years Mexico has struggled with violence as consecutive governments battled brutal drug cartels, often by taking out their leaders.
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There is an overlap with transnational drug sales, but he said human smuggling cases typically are not run by cartels.
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In terms of marijuana in the US, the cartels are being outcompeted by legal firms in price, quality, and variety.
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Veracruz is home to rival cartels including the Zetas and Jalisco New Generation, or CJNG, which dispute drug trafficking turf.
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Drugs and guns are being shipped across the Mexican border by Hispanic cartels and are distributed by black street gangs.
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Sessions also urged local law enforcement officials to take a tougher stance against cartels importing drugs across the southern border.
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Violent drug cartels are most active along much of the border with the United States, and along the Pacific Coast.
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Then the cartels distribute the substance through their vast smuggling networks to meet rising American demand for opiates and pharmaceuticals.
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"Cartels and drug traffickers are not stupid," said Jorge Javier Romero Vadillo, a professor at CIDE, a Mexico City university.
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For years Mexico has struggled with violence as consecutive governments battled brutal drug cartels, often by taking out their leaders.
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He explains what popular TV shows and movies like "Narcos" and "Sicario" get right and wrong about Mexican drug cartels.
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American law enforcement officials have noted for years that the euro has become the currency of choice for drug cartels.
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"The cartels have become so large and powerful that you sometimes need an army to defeat an army!" he wrote.
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" He added, "The cartels have become so large and powerful that you sometimes need an army to defeat an army!
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In the background, the drug cartels operate largely unseen, yet are integral to the story and to the agents' vulnerabilities.
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" Sirer said, "If you are courting illegal money from, you know, cartels and drug dealers, you have to maintain immutability.
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The attack was a tragic reminder that cartels continue to run rampant, leaving a trail of violence, sorrow and death.
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Instead of going to drug cartels, that money helps fund our schools and addiction treatment programs for more dangerous drugs.
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Today's newly formed heroin addicts will keep the drug cartels alive and well-funded for the next couple of decades.
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"The cartels are merely using the human end of it to promote the illegal narcotics trafficking," said Griffin by phone.
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Avocado growers in Michoacan state, home to 80% of Mexico's production, are being targeted by four of the country's cartels.
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Jorge Castañeda, Mexico's former foreign minister, said the family may have been targeted because of previous clashes with the cartels.
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CLINTON: Well, I was speaking about drug cartels and criminal activity that was very concerning to folks across the country.
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But a few years ago their trips stopped, due to a sharp rise in violence from the country's drug cartels.
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The old 'They've caved to the taxi cartels and/or the unions!' refrain was also wheeled out and waxed off.
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It's difficult to pin down exactly how much of these cartels' business is heroin, but it's clearly playing a role.
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The Arellano Félix organization was a family affair, and was at one time among the most powerful cartels in Mexico.
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He said he is not worried, though, as BioTrackTHC's inventory software is unlikely to be fought over by the cartels.
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Without the vast profits from the drug trade, cartels would be infinitely less powerful, and our governments could neutralize them.
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As the war on drugs fractured large cartels in recent years, smaller and more predatory groups rose in their place.
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But with the spread of the coronavirus, shipments from China have dried up and the cartels are feeling the pinch.
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On Money Under the volcanoes in Mexico's Michoacán state, violent cartels are fighting to dominate a shadowy and lucrative market.
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He's used to paying weekly protection fees to local drug cartels and seeing co-workers killed even after they've paid.
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The governor of Mexico's beleaguered southern state of Guerrero has promised to step up efforts to contain local drug cartels.
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And officials said that some of the money paid to smugglers found its way into the hands of drug cartels.
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But he is also on a U.S. Treasury list of people suspected of helping to launder money for drug cartels.
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But you can enjoy that unique taste of guacamole; refusing to eat it is not going to smash the cartels.
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The cartels reverted to using phenyl-2-propanone, known as P2P, a method popularized by biker gangs in the 1970s.
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But it could also undermine cooperation with Mexican forces in combating the cartels and escalate tensions between the two governments.
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As OPEC (the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) has learned, even international cartels can't hold back market forces indefinitely.
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It's the latest sign that the cartels, which smuggle arms and drugs in through Paraguay, have penetrated its security agencies.
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But drug experts have warned that global fentanyl production has already shifted, with an increasing amount flowing from Mexican cartels.
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Iran also has created smuggling crews allied with Mexican drug cartels to raise funds for the terror groups they support.
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Designating cartels as "terrorists" bolsters the president's border narrative but could have unintended consequences on military action, guns and refugees.
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Mike Lee (R-Utah) warned of unintended consequences like rich drug cartels buying ways to hack through back-door access.
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The bank eventually acknowledged having laundered more than eight hundred million dollars in drug proceeds for Mexican and Colombian cartels.
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It shows that there's awful things going on down there that are between the cartels, but our influence is undeniable.
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A coworker of mine was killed for publishing an op-ed by a grieving mother which called the cartels cowards.
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The Peace Process Cartel only wants what all cartels want: to keep prices high and alternatives out of the market.
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Locals may feel like they're winning, but the gifts and gains are short-term compared to those of the cartels.
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Mexican authorities have hypothesized they were accidentally caught up in a turf war between rival cartels, but the families disagree.
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These are the same generals who for years colluded with the drug cartels to turn Venezuela into a narco-state.
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President Trump threatened to designate Mexican cartels "narco-terrorists," a meaningless step meant only to frighten Mr. López Obrador's team.
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But Trump's desire to name Mexican drug cartels as terrorists might open a rift between the two leaders, experts say.
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They are sitting in Zurich safe-deposit boxes, probably, crossing borders with cartels and traffickers, and doing other awful things.
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Smugglers and cartels are "constantly modifying their approach to continue to make money and exploit migrants from everywhere," said Morgan.
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Numerous current and former U.S. officials and other experts say that designating Mexican cartels as FTOs would be counter-productive.
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But it could also undermine cooperation with Mexican forces in combating the cartels and escalate tensions between the two governments.
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The violence in the region has intensified since the government's campaign against drug cartels began at the end of 2006.
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South American politicians, trapped by lawless shadow governments, are unable to assist the president in his war on the cartels.
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But on his first day in office, he reverted to his predecessors' strategy of throwing the military at the cartels.
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For the past 12 years, Mexico has deployed thousands of police, soldiers and intelligence officers to fight the violent cartels.
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But we are actively engaged in protecting our law enforcement, fighting violent crime, and investigating and prosecuting violent drug cartels.
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What we've seen time and time again in Mexico is that cartels will sell to rival gangs without a problem.
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More than 200,000 people have been killed or disappeared since the government declared war on the cartels in late 2006.
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"The Court takes the view that the Commission has not succeeded in proving that ICAP participated in one of the cartels, that the duration found by the Commission of ICAP's participation in three cartels was excessive and that it failed to provide sufficient reasons as regards the methodology for calculating the fine," they said.
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That structure is one reason the Sinaloa cartel was somewhat insulated from the Mexican government's crackdown on cartels in the late 2000s — the government used a "kingpin" strategy to take out the cartels by taking down their leaders, according to Steven Dudley of InSight Crime, a publication that tracks organized crime in Latin America.
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Go deeper: UPS employees allegedly shipped drugs from Mexico in decade-long scheme Trump vows to designate Mexican drug cartels as terror organizations Mexico reacts to Trump's pledge to mark Mexican drug cartels as terrorists Editor's note: This article has been updated to reflect the fact that authorities revised the death toll down from 21.
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With more than 2,000 mayors in Mexico, most of whom have little protection, the cartels have a big market to tap.
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As cartels have entrenched themselves in Mexico's local politics, finding a solution to the drug war mess has gotten even tougher.
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In past seasons, Boyd Holbrook and Pedro Pascal provided cheeky (and informative) historical context as their DEA agent characters pursued cartels.
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Homicides rose in 22 of Mexico's 32 states during 2016 due to increased tensions between rival cartels, according to the survey.
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And so I think people have to remember that when the cartels are involved, they&aposre all sorts of competing interests.
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Kamada said there is less fighting over territory between rival Mexican cartels or American-grown gangs, because the market isn't there.
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Both versions of the film point to the long, surprising, and often tragic history of pageant queens and Mexican drug cartels.
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Fentanyl, which is killing more Americans through overdoses than any other drug, has been a recent, major boom for the cartels.
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Tens of thousands have been killed by state security forces and cartels — the US Congressional Research Service estimates at least 150,000.
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Drug cartels often try to influence local elections in Mexico, and more than 130 candidates were killed during campaigning last year.
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But, because of the geography, the cartels in the city will always be present and a way of life for many.
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Not only is it physically risky, since you're riding on top, but it's also a target for cartels, kidnappers, and robbers.
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But unlike the government, which changes hands and switches players regularly, the cartels are far more permanent, Mr. de Mauleon said.
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Mexico has struggled with years of violence as the government has battled brutal drug cartels, often by taking out their leaders.
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Tens of thousands of Mexicans died when drug cartels fragmented after Mexican security forces killed or put their leaders in jail.
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The United States considers persecution by a government a valid criterion for asylum, but not exploitation by criminal gangs or cartels.
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Because the migration "lanes" are controlled by drug cartels, families with no money are often forced to carry drugs as payment.
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Experts say the national guard marks a continuation, and perhaps a deepening, of his predecessors' failed military strategy against drug cartels.
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Mexican media reported the shootout was linked to a dispute between rival cartels seeking to control the trade in synthetic drugs.
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Such bundles usually weigh 30 kilos (66 pounds), and fishermen are paid $150,000 if they hand them back to the cartels.
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El Chapo then becomes a leader of "The Federation," a new arrangement where multiple cartels control different territories across the country.
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However, Texas police and sheriffs already do so; among other things, they work with the feds to fight gangs and cartels.
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His charges included money laundering, conspiracy to traffic narcotics and a "kingpin" charge generally withheld for leaders of major drug cartels.
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There have obviously been plenty of books, documentaries, and TV shows about the cartels and their charismatic figures at this point.
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"The provision of this detailed information acts as the proverbial smoke-filled room of the cartels of yesteryear," the complaint said.
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Matamoros Mayor Mario Lopez described the city as calmer than neighboring towns, because of a truce between two rival drug cartels.
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That's because cartels have a stranglehold on the Mexican side of the border and control much of the land, he said.
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Waves of grisly killings have taken place in Guerrero as cartels battle over drug trafficking routes and clash with security forces.
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Move over, "Mob Wives" ... there's a new show getting ready to mark its territory on VH1 with ties to drug cartels.
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In a call intended to mend fences, Trump volunteered to send U.S. troops to Mexico to fight drug cartels and crime.
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She rode a mule up into the El Rosario biosphere reserve, with a guide and a bodyguard armed against drug cartels.
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The profits pay the cartels' assassins, as well as corrupt police officers and soldiers, who discard piles of bodies across Mexico.
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Many in the ranks of Mexican cartels take their first step into the crime world by growing, smuggling or selling pot.
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Guzmán now sits in a U.S. jail cell, awaiting extradition to Colombia after being convicted of laundering money for drug cartels.
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Companies must admit their role in the cartels, cease their illegal activities and cooperate with investigations as part of the agreements.
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The cartels murdered two members of the LeBarón family in 2009 after the Mormons began to organize against the drug traffickers.
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Mr. Trump has a point when he says that cartels are a bloodthirsty menace that can be compared to an army.
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The massacre came a decade after two members of the LeBarón family who confronted local drug cartels were kidnapped and murdered.
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"Do we want Vladimir Putin or drug cartels to be influencing American elections?" she presciently asked at a 2015 commission meeting.
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Analysts have said the robberies were often part of a profitable criminal enterprise exploited by some of Mexico's most notorious cartels.
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The show has thrived on the gruesome progression of Escobar's operation and its mighty clashes with law enforcement and rival cartels.
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Some will say they have grudging agreements of access with drug cartels, as long as trespassers stay far from their homes.
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Preventing these drugs from hitting the streets not only saved lives, but the criminal cartels have suffered a massive financial loss.
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The partnership with Colombian President Alvaro Uribe faltered when his successor, Juan Manuel Santos, pursued a "peace deal" with the cartels.
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"They have a PhD in drug trafficking thanks to the education provided by the Sinaloa Cartel and other cartels," he said.
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With higher prices come the predictable howls of protest from politicians — about everything from oil-producer cartels to Wall Street speculators.
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They came ready to fight and kill, if needed, to get those weapons back to Mexico and into drug cartels' hands.
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El Chapo then became a leader of "The Federation," a new arrangement where multiple cartels control different territories across the country.
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Starting in 2006, a war between the Sinaloa and Juarez cartels turned Ciudad Juarez into the murder capital of the world.
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Everyone has read about the violence perpetrated by the cartels in Mexico, but how does Miguel Treviño—Z-40—stand out?
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Drug cartels seeking to diversify income streams have preyed on Pemex, making fuel theft one of Mexico's most pressing security issues.
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Cartels, like any business, compete with one another to meet drug demand and control importation and distribution across the United States.
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And despite fears raised in Congress, experts say there is no evidence that the cartels are helping terrorists enter the country.
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He planned to stay near the border, but government officials warned him he'd be "fresh meat for cartels," Salgado told me.
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Meanwhile, there is little to suggest the initiative is doing much to stop young vulnerable people getting sucked into the cartels.
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The U.S. initiative aimed to combat cocaine cartels by funding the Colombian military alongside increased U.S. military presence in the country.
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There has also been an uptick in violence and murders more generally in Mexico due to the recent fragmentation of cartels.
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The Mexican government's efforts to reduce the bloodshed have been hindered by ongoing clashes between the country's cartels and criminal organizations.
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VICE: Can you give me a picture of how motivated and sophisticated the cartels are when it comes to moving product?
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Then we come to the smaller cartels, the cartelitos: the Guerreros Unidos, Los Rojos, Los Caballeros Templarios and La Familia Michoaana.
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A co-worker of mine was killed for publishing an op-ed by a grieving mother which called the cartels cowards.
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But that drew attention — and death threats — from one of the many drug cartels fighting over their home state of Michoacán.
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When drugs were banned and criminalized, black markets and drug cartels easily filled the gap and provided the drugs to people.
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They include Martin Shkreli and Big Pharma for soaring prices of medicine, and HSBC for laundering money for Mexican drug cartels.
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Marijuana laws started becoming legal in states, and the drug cartels needed to make up their profit [from lost marijuana sales].
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The campaign leading up to Sunday's elections was marked by numerous accusations of links to drug cartels, and allegations of corruption.
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You've got monopolies, oligopolies, cartels, government-run markets, price-fixing — all the dysfunctional behaviors that lead to rapid increase in prices.
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Many of the seized tusks shared a geographic origin, "suggesting these cartels are probably supporting poaching operations on ground," Wasser theorized.
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While bosses may come and go, many believe the basic structure of cartels, and the names associated with them, remain unchanged.
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The only lucrative stream of income they could have tapped, from the cartels that passed through their territory, was off-limits.
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"The cartels build houses right on the borderline," an officer of the Colombian National Police told me in Leticia last April.
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They said that the cartels pretty much left them to work in their fields and tend to their animals in peace.
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The smugglers themselves are held financially hostage by drug cartels that charge them thousands of dollars to operate on their turf.
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Márquez, 39, is on a United States Treasury Department blacklist of people it says have helped launder money for drug cartels.
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"I'm not proud of accepting their money," said one reporter in Veracruz, speaking anonymously for fear of reprisals from the cartels.
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Mexico has been racked by violence for years as successive governments battled brutal drug cartels, often by taking out their leaders.
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Do you want the men and women who take on the drug cartels to be worried about making their rent payment?
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The cartels constantly change their names and fragment, and there are now dozens of gangs and splinter groups scattered across Mexico.
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Time reported Thursday that the pope plans on visiting regions deeply hurt by Mexico's drug cartels, including Michoacan and Ciudad Juarez.
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Trump along with top immigration and Justice officials had gathered to discuss whether to designate Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations.
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A DOJ official disputed that Barr agreed with Trump in an Oval Office meeting about designating the cartels as terror groups.
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Then we come to the smaller cartels, the cartelitos: the Guerreros Unidos, Los Rojos, Los Caballeros Templarios, and La Familia Michoacán.
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Some are blaming Mexico's president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and his government's decision to step back from confrontations with drug cartels.
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The country's drug cartels have for years used gifts, food and other social benefits to build their standing with local communities.
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It all comes down to the dynamics of supply and demand: Mexican cartels are simply filling the orders of American consumers.
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He also predicts that drug cartels would recruit him because of his combat experience and murder him if he didn't cooperate.
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He's doing this to stop these children to be destroyed by these cartels that are bringing them up from Central America.
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He's doing this to stop these children to be destroyed by the cartels that are bringing them up from Central America.
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Roy also called for cartels to be designated as Foreign Terrorist Organizations in an op-ed in The Hill this month.
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What Trump had said: President Trump said in an interview broadcast Tuesday that he will designate Mexican drug cartels as terrorists.
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In Mexico, cartels often kidnap and kill their rivals, many of whom are buried in clandestine graves scattered across the country.
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Have I been handsomely paid by Big Sugar, by members of any number of insidious global sugar cartels, for these remarks?
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Victims of the killings Last month, officials and family members said they believed the vehicles were targeted by Mexican drug cartels.
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Like the ineffective U.S. war in Vietnam, the Mexican government has little to show for its campaign against the drug cartels.
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Other barriers include those imposed by the violent cartels that partner with the police to create the equivalent of a narcostate.
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Cartels such as Los Zetas, El Cartel del Golfo and Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación have a heavy presence in those states.
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Roy also called for cartels to be designated as Foreign Terrorist Organizations in an op-ed in The Hill last month.
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Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas, said drug cartels were using migrant children to distract the Border Patrol from smuggling operations.
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They remained even as deadly warfare between drug cartels turned this city into one of the most dangerous on the planet.
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The Gambinos' heroin business was being undersold by the Colombian and Mexican cartels, who could move drug shipments cheaper and faster.
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Domestic violence is common, and many women are killed by drug cartels and gangs, often in ways intended to spread terror.
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Though the agents are primed for drug cartels, they more often encounter their victims: "bewildered, disoriented, helpless migrants," our reviewer wrote.
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And so he thought the cartels had created the drugs which had created the opiates which means he couldn't hire people.
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Gleeson said protection would not be necessary since cartels have no incentive to target a jury once it renders its verdict.
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Fels said that Guzman, 61, eventually established relationships with Colombian cartels that allowed him to make billions of dollars moving cocaine.
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More than 3,000 migrants are on the waitlist in Juárez, many of whom have become prey for drug cartels and gangs.
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The "supply reduction" side is what the drug war is traditionally about — going after drug cartels, drug users, and drug dealers.
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"CBP officers are aware of many tactics used by the cartels and remain ever vigilant to stop anyone attempting to smuggle narcotics."
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The documentary film award went to "Cartel Land," about vigilante groups in the United States and Mexico that are battling drug cartels.
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The case: Sensenbrenner's proposal calls for the US Attorney General to study ways the Justice Department can increase assets seized from cartels.
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Militias, cartels and smugglers recognize credible reporting as a threat to their missions and livelihood and are accustomed to resorting to violence.
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Obviously, the company had many fans during its early years when it was seen as a plucky underdog fighting powerful taxi cartels.
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Women and children who arrive at our southern border from Central America are fleeing murderous gang violence, drug cartels, and death threats.
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Americans are realizing that prohibition has not stemmed consumption and only served to enrich drug cartels and unfairly imprison millions of people.
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The U.S. penalties in question are spelled out in legislation known as NOPEC, or the No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels Act.
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Hope, the security analyst, blames the renewed violence on "really nasty fights" between the larger cartels, and "increasing violence," between smaller gangs.
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Merkley, whose own policies endanger children, empower human smugglers and drug cartels, and allow violent criminal aliens to flood into American communities.
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The PRI has long been accused of links to cartels, and previous Tamaulipas governors from the PRI have been implicated in wrongdoing.
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Some blame the 2004 repeal of the assault weapons ban in the United States, which supplied the cartels with military-grade firepower.
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In the process they laundered $56.6 million for drug cartels and gangs, pulled in at least $1.7 million, and made zero arrests.
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But she said she was frightened in Ciudad Juarez - a battleground for drug cartels where the bulk of migrants await their hearings.
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Under the guise of fighting traffickers, police and military commit kidnappings, torture, and murder, while the power of the cartels only grows.
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Drug cartels and the associated gang warfare also has moved online, with attacks being launched against competitors' websites to take them offline.
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Whereas before the cartels operated on the sidelines — with the state's tacit acceptance — the smaller groups are looking to gain official power.
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The handsome 19-year-old watched drug cartels transform his Mexican hometown, Juarez, from a bustling border metropolis into a war zone.
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While they are there, the money they make is extracted from them by landlords and cartels, who have little incentive to invest.
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As we know from his time with Los Pepes, Peña isn't above doing business with the cartels when it serves his purpose.
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Despite the trend toward legalization north of the border, cartels still make millions of dollars from smuggling marijuana into the United States.
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Uber began its life as a scrappy startup trying to break up the taxi cartels that dominated most of America's big cities.
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A committee of the U.S. Congress passed legislation, known as the No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels Act, or NOPEC, last week.
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Six months later, Facebook faced a similar dilemma in Mexico, where the government and the cartels were locked in a bloody conflict.
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Local governments are a lucrative source of contracts and kickbacks, while their police forces can be pressed into service of the cartels.
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Heineman doesn't just embed himself with the cartels, here's there for shoot outs and members who are on the run from rivals.
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As well as confronting the elements, travelers are exposed to physical threats from corrupt officials and cartels that control people smuggling routes.
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The cartel's income skyrocketed after Gallardo partnered with the Cali and Medellin cartels of Colombia, and began exporting their cocaine through Tijuana.
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Red tape, suspected cartels among materials suppliers and the high fees extracted by closed-shop Irish professionals could be partly to blame.
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You should be "no more worried than you should be by cartels also using machine guns, car bombs, machetes, etc," Singer said.
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Third, the people involved are of course organized crime, the cartels that are managing both the sporting outcome and the betting fraud.
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In some Latin American countries like Colombia, where cartels rule with force, cooperating with law enforcement almost certainly spells a death sentence.
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Read "Filipinos Celebrated Easter by Crucifying a Bunch of People Again" Watch "Crystal Meth and Cartels in the Philippines: The Shabu Trap"
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"Our conclusion produced no evidence that the ban on cartels had been breached," cartel office head Andreas Mundt said in a statement.
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They had argued that the billion dollar sport was in breach of articles prohibiting cartels and the abuse of dominant market positions.
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Do you think NAFTA and the War on Drugs have actually helped turn the cartels into major conglomerates and wide-reaching organizations?
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It simply protects congressional oversight, protects national security, and keeps deadly weapons from falling into the hands of drug cartels and terrorists.
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In addition to profiting from poisoning Americans with addictive and lethal drugs, narcoterrorist cartels are also making lucrative profits from human smuggling.
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Cartels moved south across the Ecuadorean border to set up new storage facilities and pioneer new smuggling routes from Ecuador's Pacific coast.
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A U.S. House of Representatives committee approved the bill known as No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels Act, or NOPEC, last week.
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Cartels like the NCAA form because all members agree they can make more money by colluding with one another than by competing.
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Since former President Felipe Calderon of the PAN sent the army to fight cartels in 2007, some 230,000 people have been killed.
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Thus far the powerful "cartels" that have long dominated the drugs trade seem to have taken little interest in the dark web.
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Police in Mexico are not only under pressure to swap their allegiance from the government to cartels, they are also seriously outgunned.
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