Sentence examples for cartels over from inspiring English sources

"The Greek government has protected the oligarchy and the cartels over the last two years," says Professor Hatzis.

He retreated to Sinaloa and expanded his operations, launching violent turf wars with rival cartels over control of prized entry points along the U.S. border.

And so, using his superior technical know-how, Walter puts together a start-up, making a boutique product more consistent than that made by enthusiastic hackers and more pure than the stuff pushed by the soulless cartels over the border.

Although Mexico's military is regarded as significantly less corrupt than the country's police forces, defense officials estimate that 100,000 soldiers have quit to join the cartels over the past seven years.

A study commissioned by FLACSO, a Latin American social-science university, estimated that, based on victimisation surveys, Mexico's murder rate could be closer to 26 per 100,000.What makes Mexico worrying is not just the raw numbers but the power of the cartels over society.

Near the exit, a plaque commemorates more than 600 Mexican soldiers who have died fighting the cartels over the last 30 years.

There has been a wave of killings in Mexican jails over the past few months, as the battles between rival drug cartels carry over to prisons.

The repeated news stories of cartels taking over didn't help: cross the Mexican border and risk dying like a dog.

The cable advises ATF to concentrate on arresting individual Mexican traffickers living legally in the U.S. The cable also discounts ATF's assertion that the Rio Grande had become a virtual "Iron River" of guns, with the cartels taking over gun smuggling.

The cartel took over northbound migration routes, charged fees to coyotes, and began snatching migrants from the tops of freight trains riding north; they extorted victims' families with near-total impunity.

In fact conditions at the brothel where she worked got even worse once the Gulf cartel took over, despite the Zetas' more bloodthirsty reputation.