Sentences with phrase «cartel who»

«What I object to fiercely is that we've got this cartel who control the top echelons of the art world in this country and leave no access for painters and sculptors with real creative talent.

TAKE DOWN THE CARTEL In a near future, Bolivia has fallen into the hands of Santa Blanca, a merciless drug cartel who spread injustice and violence.

(Hint: there's a whole self - pubber subculture out there who are fanatically dedicated to the proposition that the traditional publishing industry is either doooooooooomed (like unto the dinosaurs) or a toxic, abusive cartel who refuse to sleep with them buy their books but want to take on authors and pimp them out like cheap streetwalkers exploit them — the doublethink is as spectacular as anything you see from the MRA loons, and about as closely connected to reality.)

The Big 5 are a price - fixing cartel who want to charge readers high prices,» he charged.

Molla will be the ruthless leader of a Mexican drug cartel who has sworn bloody revenge on Nick for the death of his son (William Levy).

The only players left standing would be major companies in the pharmaceutical cartel who have the deep pockets to get drugs approved — a process that routinely costs hundreds of millions of dollars for each new medication.

The movie industry estimates that in Mexico, for every DVD sold legally, another 10 are pirated, often by notorious and dangerous drug cartels who are making a name for themselves in media piracy.

In Mexico the drugs are mixed with heroin by the drug cartels who distribute a highly potent and refined power form of fentanyl - laced heroin into the United States.

Not exact matches

In Colombia, the reign of large, hierarchical cartels gave way to that of paramilitary groups, who were eventually replaced by more criminal groups, or «bandas criminales,» that are more compartmentalized, dispersed, and autonomous than their predecessors.

«What we noticed was that Cali cartel had learned from the Medellin cartel not to make those types of mistakes,» Javier Peña, a US Drug Enforcement Administration agent who worked on both the Escobar and the Cali cartel cases, said on The Cipher Brief podcast.

The interlopers included major gangs like the Zetas, the Knights Templar and a successor cartel known as the Michoacan Family, to which the people who extorted Arredondo claimed to belong.

Caro Quintero is currently one of the DEA's three top wanted fugitives, a designation he shares with Ismael Zambada Garcia, who is thought to be the current leader of the Sinaloa cartel, and with Nemesio Oseguera - Cervantes, leader of the Jalisco New Generation Ccartel, and with Nemesio Oseguera - Cervantes, leader of the Jalisco New Generation CartelCartel.

This will often be from members of the public who are not directly involved in the cartel but are concerned about what they have seen or heard,» he confirmed.

He is the son of Damaso Lopez Nunez, who has launched a struggle for control of the cartel following the arrest of its leader, Joaquin «El Chapo» Guzman.

(For a reality check, watch this interview with Uralkali CEO Vladislav Baumgertner who states the crumbling of the cartel was unavoidable.)

«Ozark» is a recently released original drama series starring Jason Bateman as a money - laundering family man who's seriously jammed up with the Mexican drug cartel he works for.

But for all his deeds and bluster, Escobar was just one member of a clan of traffickers who helped create the Medellin cartel.

«But another kind of person who will find he likes «Ozark» is a fan of «Narcos» and «El Chapo» and other drug - cartel - oriented dramas and documentaries.»

Lehder's involvement in the drug trade proved valuable when he was able to testify against Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega, who had assisted the Medellin cartel with its money - laundering activities.

Mimenza, who demurred when asked if his force carried weapons, told Bloomberg that cartel violence «is a problem that the government itself has permitted, and the same government is the only one that can resolve it.»

In March, suspects who were allegedly part of an organization linked to the Zetas cartel were arrested in relation to marijuana fields in eastern Texas.In June, seven people linked to the Sinaloa cartel were indicted in Los Angeles.

Cartel members (some of whom resettled after cooperating with the US government) and their relatives live in the US — sometimes in the same neighborhoods as the agents who once pursued them.

But since Trump took office, his and Session's focus seems to be less on transnational criminal groups like Mexican drug cartels and more on criminal groups active in the US — specifically MS - 13, formed in the US in the 1980s by Central American immigrants who were deported to their home countries in the 1990s, where the gang expanded rapidly.

Armenia was the home of Carlos Lehder — a cocaine - addled neo-Nazi who helped start the Medellin cartel.

Since he joined the drug trade as a teenager, Chapo swiftly rose through the ranks, building an almost mythic reputation: First, as a cold pragmatist known to deliver a single shot to the head for any mistakes made in a shipment, and later, as he began to establish the Sinaloa cartel, as a Robin Hood - like figure who provided much - needed services in the Sinaloa mountains, funding everything from food and roads to medical relief.

Although many drug lords have fallen, a glaring exception is Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquin «El Chapo (Shorty)» Guzman, Mexico's most powerful trafficker, who under Calderon has expanded control over the most lucrative smuggling routes.

Among them: Jeffrey Sterling, the former CIA officer who was convicted in 2015 of leaking classified information about Iran's nuclear program to The New York Times; Jeffrey Skilling, Enron's disgraced CEO; Rafael Cárdenas - Vela, an ex-leader of the Mexican drug - trafficking Gulf Cartel; and Jared Fogle, the former Subway pitchman convicted of distributing child pornography and having sex with minors.

Yet in Mexico, some say that it's Ismael Zambada, nicknamed El Mayo, who calls the shots in the Sinaloa cartel.

I took some comfort in a unique aspect of El Chapo's reputation among the heads of drug cartels in Mexico: that, unlike many of his counterparts who engage in gratuitous kidnapping and murder, El Chapo is a businessman first, and only resorts to violence when he deems it advantageous to himself or his business interests.

When those hoops had finally been jumped through, mostly by Kate but at my relentless direction, the only retaliation I was left fearing during my engagement with El Chapo Guzmán and the Sinaloa cartel was the potential wrath of a Mexican actress toward an American actor who had single - mindedly abused his friendship with her to retrieve the needed video.

Nor did the twins personally deal with street - level dealers — a popular misconception reinforced by police and drug enforcement officials, who often link the cartels to the city's gangs and the deadly violence they perpetrate.

Because many of these immigrants — especially those who are here illegally — are poor or underemployed, the area provides a fertile recruiting ground for cartel operatives.

It was the Cali cartel that three years ago ordered the death of a New York journalist, Manuel DeDios, who had written about the drug traffickers in Spanish - language publications and books.

Russian President Vladimir Putin was the mediator who played a crucial role in helping OPEC rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia set aside differences to forge the cartel's first deal with non-OPEC Russia in 15 years.

The Medellin cartel, which Lehder co-founded, had close links with Noriega, who allowed it to ship cocaine through Panama for a reported $ 100,000 (# 68,000) a load.

One young man mentioned was Gabriel Cardona, «the ringleader of the American cell of assassins, a savvy, brash young man who orchestrated at least five murders in Laredo of people connected to the Sinaloa Cartel.»

I shared with you in yesterday's post that I watched Kill the Messenger, the story of the journalist Gary Webb who uncovered the CIA's collusion with drug cartels in Central America.

Crime novelist Don Winslow — who adamantly discourages people from using any type of drug — has spent much of his career studying Mexican drug cartels.

This is not the case for all the homeless, so be sure you really know who you are giving the money to, and that they are buying food and not supporting the drug cartels with your money.

While the Cattle Council of Australia and the Australian Meat Industry Council (AMIC) welcomed the report, independent economist Selywn Heilbron, who recently authorised a study on competition in the sector on behalf of the AMIC, warned the cartel allegations needed to be taken in the context of an industry where there would «literally be millions of transactions going through saleyards every year».

Modify cartel laws so they apply conduct affecting goods or services supplied or acquired in Australian markets and are confined to conduct involving firms who are actual or likely competitors (determined on balance of probabilities)

The people who lose out from cartels are Australian consumers and other Australian businesses, particularly small businesses, which are playing by the rules.

It just seems reassuring to know that Seaman and Steel aren't like those people we all know, who constantly remind friends (and strangers) that their children only eat organic and talk about their household ban on fast / junk food as if some insidious junk food cartel were trying to force it down their chimney at night as they sleep.

It would probably have sounded crazy if I said that the US Government was arming the Cartels, or selling arms to Iran to fund the Contras who hate america as much as they did the regime in power... but they did that too.

For example, in the city where I live we recently had news reports about an organized «beggars cartel» who were turning street begging into a de-facto organized multinational commercial enterprise.

who commended his men for the arrest, stated that the huge profit derived from drug trafficking had made it a top priority for drug cartels to be financially incapacitated.

Like Boris, Hannan would be well - advised to stay well away from Westminster and build an independent power base by appealing over the heads of the modernisers to real voters who are sick of the corrupt cartel politics of SW1A 0AA.

Over 60 Reps, two U.S. Senators and every Republican presidential candidate wants Holder's resignation; Congressman Ron Paul among those who also wants Holder tried in court BY DYLAN SKRILOFF In 2009 and 2010 ATF agents, operating under the authority of the U.S. Department of Justice, funneled weaponry through straw buyers to Mexican drug cartels, with -LSB-...]

You now have a «working» relationship with the Regular DemocRATS who are part of The Progressive Liberalism Cartel Headed by Bill de Blasiio, Working Families Party etc etc etc..

In light of the recent hikes in energy prices, let's take a look at who owns the energy companies supplying the UK and who is profiteering from our misery and why OGFEM is a toothless beast and should be scrapped because an energy cartel is alive and well in the UK, fleecing us, the consumers.