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Example sentences for: cartels

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The Los Angeles Times goes with the latest changes in the operations of the Colombian drug cartels, which nowadays do business with the Russian mafia, and avoid giving a big cut to Mexican distributors by relying more on "mules" coming directly to the U.S. and less on Mexican ships.
The countries also announced an alliance against drug cartels and a collective drug-fighting-certification process.
Saying the firms include "household names," the paper added that they are suspected of acting as fronts for clients who include "crime syndicates in eastern Europe, Italy and the US, British gangs and the Colombian cartels."
We live in a world not just of "transnational corporations" but of "transnational mafias and drug cartels," problems that nations can solve only by acting in concert.
In an increasingly producer-led economy dominated by price-fixing cartels operating with the government’s blessing, consumers were left to foot the bill.