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an illicit cartel formed to control the production and distribution of narcotic drugs
drug cartels sometimes finance terrorist organizations
How To Use drug cartel In A Sentence
- Five suspected members of the Zetas drug cartel in Mexico have been arrested in connection with an arson attack on a casino last week which killed 52 people.
- The Colombian drug cartels first felt the squeeze. Times, Sunday Times
- The drug cartels are making a concerted comeback and the police are getting edgy. Times, Sunday Times
- More than 300 people have been arrested in a series of drug raids targeting a Mexican drug cartel operating in the US, American officials have said.
- This milestone measure is a living tribute to the thousands of men and women who have lost their lives in pursuit of a world free of mafias, drug cartels and criminal gangs.
- drug cartels sometimes finance terrorist organizations
- MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican army captured a key figure in the cult-like Knights Templar drug cartel that is sowing violence in western Mexico, a top officer announced Tuesday.
- In an address before a joint session of Congress this year, President Felipe Calderon asked the United States to reimpose a ban on the assault-style rifles favored by Mexican drug cartels and to work harder to stop weapons flowing from gun shops and gun shows along the southwest border into Mexico. U.S. and Mexico struggle to stop flow of weapons across border
- In the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, business leaders are so concerned about spiraling drug cartel-related violence that they have asked the United Nations to send in peacekeeping soldiers to restore calm. POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: November 13, 2009
- Mexican drug cartels have even offered a bounty for the killing of a U.S. law-enforcement officer.