"[The cocaine cartels] have extensive financial networks, and we must assume that this drug adds to the potency or addicting qualities of cocaine in a way we have yet to fully determine," said Dr. Hoffman.
Indeed, in recent years cartels have used an extensive portfolio of rackets and scams to diversify their income.
When death threats from a mafia kingpin forced cancellation of her television mini-series in Bogotá about drug cartels, she used her extensive research in a novel instead: "Leopard in the Sun" (1993) is an outrageous performance, a García Márquez family saga reformatted by Quentin Tarantino.
The feds have said the asset forfeiture figures in the case were "based upon extensive debriefs of cooperating members" of the BLO cartel, "including high-ranking members of the organization with detailed, firsthand knowledge" of the group's "financial dealings".
The Sinaloa cartel is believed to have built sophisticated and extensive tunnels in the past for transport of drugs, using complicated drilling equipment to bore through miles of earth.
The young man dressed Triana's wounds and gave him a morphine injection, while Toro tracked down a cartel pilot to fly Triana back to Colombia for more extensive treatment.
Her 2010 book Los señores del narco, translated into English as Narcoland, detailed the extensive government corruption that allowed Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán and his Sinaloa cartel to become one of the most powerful criminal enterprises in the world.
"This interagency cross-border operation has been our most extensive, and most successful, law enforcement effort to date targeting these deadly cartels," Mr. Holder said at a press conference.
Agents of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and Justice Department officials have met in secret with members of Mexican drug cartels in exchange for information on rival drug organizations, a new extensive investigative report by Mexico's El Universal newspaper startlingly concludes.
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