Sentence examples for former cartel from inspiring English sources

I had written two long articles about Guzmán at that point (the earlier article was about the business model of his cartel) and had spent days interviewing former cartel employees who had worked for him and law-enforcement officers who had hunted him.

The "self-defence" groups, including farmers and ranchers as well as alleged rivals and former cartel members, marched through the Knights' territory, taking town after town and finally forcing the federal government in late 2013 to mount a real offensive to find Gómez and other Knights Templar leaders.

"He took us to the shrine to Jesús Malverde, the patron saint of narcotraficantes, and introduced us to a former cartel member who had been shot twice in the head and had the cavern in his skull to prove it and, although I was anxious, I was never really frightened, because I trusted him," she recalled.

When we got to the small border town of Río Bravo, Millán directed his driver to go to a former cartel safe house, near where the police engaged in a lengthy shootout with Zeta gunmen at the beginning of this year.

But the cruel beauty and philosophical depth of the film lie in its capturing of a very different reality, as the vigilantes themselves are joined – Mireles says "infiltrated" – by gunmen who appear to be former cartel members and who promise rapid progress with their ample weaponry.

It also didn't hurt that the deal would allow him to exact revenge on his former cartel associates who had turned their backs on him.

Hanging over every Mexican extradition is the precedent set by Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, the former Gulf cartel leader.

Among the other twelve fugitives extradited in September is Jorge Costilla Sánchez, known as El Coss, a former Gulf Cartel leader who was arrested in 2012.

Earlier this month, Carlos Toro revealed himself for the first time via The Huffington Post as a former Medellín cartel official who became an informant for the Drug Enforcement Administration 27 years ago.

He also refused to comment on reports that the victims include relatives of Ignacio "Nacho" Coronel, another former Sinaloa cartel leader who had particular influence in Jalisco.

Indonesia and Malaysia have former a cartel to develop schemes that could raise prices, perhaps overlooking the broader market trends and the fact that a lot of countries are now planting oil palm.