Sentences with phrase «of drug cartels in»

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.

The United States authorities have come down hard on Stuart Gulliver's bank, accusing it of moving money on behalf of drugs cartels in Mexico

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He explains the reason Mexican drug cartels consistently commit acts of violence at 5:45 p.m. in Juárez, Mexico.

«The cartels have a pretty good handle on the appetite in the US,» Jack Riley, the deputy administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration, told The New York Times.

The purported cooperation, some details of which were revealed by a Sinaloa cartel figure on trial in the US, reached a peak in the late 2000s, a period when the Sinaloa cartel ascended to primacy among Mexican drug - trafficking organizations.

It's suspected the two cartels cooperated to some extent in the 1980s, organizing an armed group to fight kidnappers and working to stabilize the drug market and divide up territory in the US — the Medellin cartel took Miami and South Florida, while the Cali cartel controlled New York City and parts of the northeast.

Known by the nickname «Mi Sangre» (My Blood), Lopez Londono was the head of the Los Urabenos drug cartel, one of the most feared in Colombia.

Analysts attribute the escalation to a turf war between factions in the Sinaloa drug cartel following the 2016 capture of kingpin Joaquin «El Chapo» Guzman.

Caro Quintero, nicknamed «the prince» and «the narco of narcos,» was one of three leaders of the Guadalajara cartel, which dominated the Mexican drug trade in the 1970s and 1980s.

Because of government offensives that toppled narco kingpins in recent years, Mexico's drug cartels have splintered and are eager for new sources of revenue.

Not in Mexico, where neighbouring state Michoacan has become a battleground, with armed vigilantes battling the Knights Templar drug cartel and a federal investigation into the possible corruption of more than 1,200 local police officers.

The DEA's 2017 National Drug Threat Assessment, published in October, also named Caro Quintero as one of the Sinaloa cartel's still - free leaders, alongside Zambada.

Central American groups, as well as the Sinaloa cartel and other Mexican groups, have previously formed arrangements with gangs in the port city of Liverpool to bring in drugs by sea, typically from Venezuela and Ecuador, according to The Times.

The report depicts shifts in cartel presence in the US — most notably the disappearance of the Knights Templar, which «is still regarded as a viable [transnational criminal organization] in Mexico,» though the «DEA assesses it does not have a major impact on the drug trafficking landscape within the United States.»

SAN DIEGO (AP)-- The son of a leader of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel has been indicted on drug smuggling charges in the United States and pleaded not guilty on Monday, less than two weeks after surrendering to U.S. border inspectors.

The group emerged in Colombia over the last decade, moving into areas of the drug trade vacated by Colombian cartels and paramilitary groups and becoming a kind of decentralized network of nodes running criminal activities throughout the country.

«It's also true that many of the major drug cartels have personal and maybe even business interests in the United States,» Shirk told Business Insider.

«I think everyone agrees that Mexican drug cartels have far - reaching supply chains in both directions,» from the Andes to the US, David Shirk, a professor at the University of San Diego, told Business Insider this spring.

Formally launched in December 2006 by former President Felipe Calderon and then continued under his successor, Enrique Pena Nieto, the drug war struck a series of high profile blows against Mexican cartels.

PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico (AP)-- While authorities investigate what set off a deadly shooting at an electronic music festival event, residents said it came amid a growing and increasingly open drug scene in this resort town that has long been spared the violence of Mexico's cartel wars.

Patrick Fitzgerald, the U.S. attorney at the time, called the indictments «the most significant drug importation conspiracies ever charged in Chicago,» claiming that the cartel imported and distributed nearly $ 6 billion worth of illegal narcotics mostly to the Chicago area between 1990 and 2008.

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.

In May, the regenerative powers of the cartel led Chicago's police superintendent, Garry McCarthy, to call America's war on drugs a «wholesale failure.»

Indeed, today the Sinaloa cartel and its rivals are selling record amounts of heroin and methamphetamine in Chicago, according to drug seizure data and law enforcement officials (see «Sizing Up the Big Four,» below).

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.

The Zetas are a new kind of cartel, in that they came somewhat late to the actual business of smuggling drugs.

This Columbian city rose to infamy as the home of Pablo Escobar's violent drug cartel, but the city has changed a lot since the Medellin Cartel fell in the early cartel, but the city has changed a lot since the Medellin Cartel fell in the early Cartel fell in the early 1990s.

He has set out his stall to get the bank back on track after a series of scandals including HSBC's involvement in laundering money for Mexican drug cartels.

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.

In addition, Obama, and Holder should be convicted as accessories to MURDER, for the slaughter of over 200 innocent Mexicans, as a result of Fast and Furious supplying hundreds of automatic weapons to the drug cartels.

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

Leaders in both Mexico and Guatemala are calling not only for the decriminalisation but maybe even the legalisation of drugs in order to weaken the cartels.

He had to withstand allegations of being involved in murder and associated with drug cartels.

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The office is set to receive $ 116 million as its share of the 2012 settlement between prosecutors and HSBC over the bank's role in laundering drug cartel funds.

«This is just a tip of the iceberg, because as the benefits of these training begin to manifest, more drugs shall be detected and cartels dislodged in the days ahead.»

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In many Latin American states, the military is significantly underfunded compared to the enormous spending power of the drug cartels.

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.

The authors also show how trading bans can drive up the price of poached goods, which in turn encourages the involvement of organized criminals who operate like drug cartels.

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.

If you liked Narcos, I recently finished Power of the Dog and The Cartel, a 2 part series that follows the rise of a family in the Mexican drug trade.

He's second - in - command of the Autodefensas, a band of citizens in the Mexican state of Michoacán who have taken up arms against the powerful Knights Templar drug cartel.

This is obviously not meant to be an uplifting sort of film, since these people from the cartel are still running around trafficking drugs and bribing agents to help get the drugs in the country easily.

The story follows an investigator who, in an effort to bring down the boss of Asia's biggest drug cartel, conspires with a lowly member of the gang seeking revenge against the boss.

In the Mexican state of Michoacán, Dr. Jose Mireles, a small - town physician known as «El Doctor,» leads the Autodefensas, a citizen uprising against the violent Knights Templar drug cartel that has wreaked havoc on the region for years.

She involves him in a deadly conspiracy that puts them both in the cross-hairs of a Russian pimp, a corrupt police detective, and a Honduran drug cartel.

We're just supposed to be oh - so - impressed with the psychotic killers that are the Mexican drug cartels (as if we didn't already know that) and with a special agent chick thrust in the world of hardened

We're just supposed to be oh - so - impressed with the psychotic killers that are the Mexican drug cartels (as if we didn't already know that) and with a special agent chick thrust in the world of hardened law - breaking operatives and who ends up behaving like Bambi caught in headlights.

However, sandwiched in between we get to see him as a small town sheriff, fending of a Mexican drug - cartel in THE LAST STAND.