Sentence examples for cartels made from inspiring English sources

But then turf wars between rival "cartels" made places such as Ciudad Juárez, on the Texan border, among the most violent in the world.

MEXICO CITY — One of Mexico's most notorious drug cartels made huge cash payments to officials in the Mexican attorney general's office in exchange for confidential information on antidrug operations, officials said Monday, adding that the cartel might have had an informant inside the American Embassy.

Teresa Ulloa, director of the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women and Girls in Latin America and the Caribbean, says her organisation believes that Mexican drug cartels made $10bn last year from the enforced sexual exploitation and slavery of thousands of girls and women.

We also interview Mexico's controversial former president Felipe Calderon, and discuss whether his decision to deploy the military to fight cartels made violence worse in Mexico.

Allegations that the armed forces were overstepping their mandate of "supporting" police in their efforts to contain drug cartels made little imprint in broader public opinion at the time.

Cartels make a lot of money smuggling it to other countries.

Getting inside, Mr. Chertoff said, is particularly important because many of the weapons are bought by middlemen at gun shows and shops and then resold or delivered to the cartels, making them difficult to trace.

(Garzón estimated that cartels make about a fifth of their profits from pot).

Hmm, drug cartels make money on human trafficking, kidnapping, extortion and piracy, so let's continue to allow them to dominate the marijuana market as well.

As a prosecutor in the late 1990s, he went after Mexican drug cartels, making him a target for assassination by a Tijuana drug lord.

And as a prosecutor in the late 1990s, he went after Mexican drug cartels, making him a target for assassination by a Tijuana drug lord.