Sentences with phrase «most powerful drug cartels»

While members of the world's most powerful drug cartels, mobs and undercover groups converge on the sale site, the girls try to uncover the conspirator before the names of thousands of people in the Witness Protection Program are decoded.

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Joaquín «El Chapo» Guzmán's Sinaloa cartel is arguably the most powerful drug - trafficking organization in the Western Hemisphere — and in the world.

«I think it's fair to say that Mexican drug cartels are the most powerful drug - dealing groups in the United States,» Campbell added, «except that their effect is more indirect and delivering drugs to the street dealers.»

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.

More likely, she was just skittish about the fact that her husband, Joaquín Guzmán, is the C.E.O. of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel, a man the Treasury Department recently described as the world's most powerful drug trafficker.

As the BBC put it in 2014, «the Russian mafia is believed to control some prime real estate in Panama City while the Sinaloa Cartel — perhaps the most powerful drug - trafficking organization in the world — brings its cocaine from Colombia via Panama on its route north.»

In fact, most conventional wisdom suggests that legalization actually makes illegal drug cartels less powerful because more legitimate businesses will be able to enter the market.