Sentences with phrase «power of the drug cartels»

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

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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.»

His best - selling books The Power of the Dog and The Cartel may be works of fiction, but they are based on a horrifying reality: Cartels will do anything to grow, produce and sell drugs to Americans.

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.

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.

En route to legitimacy, the militia are infiltrated by former cartel members, who use the power of their guns to extort and steal and deal drugs again.

The film was initially inspired by an article Heineman read about an American vigilante group in Arizona that militantly patrols the border with Mexico, which its members believe is far too penetrable, but as he prepared to investigate this story, he encountered another article — this one about the massive power of the Mexican drug cartel Knights Templar, and a local citizens vigilante group calling itself Autodefensas.

«Cartel Land» is about the drug trade, not illegal immigration — but as director Matthew Heineman explained in a conversation with TheWrap this week, the two are inextricably linked because of the all - encompassing power of the Mexican drug cartels.

For years, the violence and aggression of Mexican drug cartels have made headlines across America, and by the looks of it this violence has grown progressively worse as more cartels sprout up, clash for territory, and vie for power.

Set in 1985, Camino finds bell traveling to Columbia during the power struggle between the government and the Medellian drug cartel during the height of Reagan's «war on drugs.»

Whether proffered as a temptation directed at youth to join cartels or badges of worth, the «girls, drugs, and power that come hand in hand with goods of the drug trade» are translated here into traditional motifs.

Narcos details Escobar's rise to wealth and power as the face behind one of the largest drug cartels of all time, based out of Medellin, Colombia.