A cartel is a group of independent market participants who collaborate with each other and avoid competing with each other in order to improve their profits and dominate the market. They arrive where the killings end, retrieving bodies, comforting families and bearing the emotional toll of a deadly struggle that shows no sign of stopping. Drug cartel, an illicit consortium of independent organizations formed to limit competition and control the production and distribution of illegal drugs
Mexican nationals and former leaders of the los zetas cartel were arraigned today in washington, d.c., on charges of engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise that involved multiple murder conspiracies, conspiring to manufacture and distribute large quantities of cocaine and marijuana destined for the united states, using firearms — including a machinegun — during and in Red states indicate areas where the sinaloa cartel has lost most of its control over drug manufacturing and distribution in mexico, according to mexico’s secretary of defense and attorney general.
