These are also facing uncomfortable outside scrutiny about possible cartel-like collusion in fee setting, and the way that their charitable funds help the rich more than the poor.Yet the real change arises from a new approach by government.
Many have begun referring to this possible gas cartel as OGEC.
Authorities are investigating possible drug cartel activity after the brothers said they were kidnapped and forced to work for more than five months on an enormous, illegal marijuana farm under the threat of violence.
"It's possible the cartels might be more upset about this new technology than law enforcement," Oye, an economist by training, told me, only half joking.
Please know, the ability of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to operate freely outside the law, hiding behind our sovereign immunity shield, has made it possible for the cartel to fix pricing in the oil market in a way that the oil companies and oil interests have benefited in the billions if not the trillions at our expense over the past years.
But since last year -- when government forces experienced some success in killing or capturing several influential deputies -- questions about a possible decline in the cartel's strength have surfaced.
How is Puig's journey from Cuba to Mexico, apparently made possible by a drug cartel with.
That may involve producing full-tilt, depending on the progress of a possible war -- something the cartel has never done before, those analysts said.
Some lawmakers in Congress also took a swipe at OPEC today, saying they would introduce a bill to allow the Justice Department to look into possible antitrust violations by the cartel.
Russia suggested on Wednesday that it would coordinate a possible production cut with the cartel, while President Dmitri A. Medvedev of Russia said on Thursday that the country could not rule out joining OPEC, according to local news agencies.
Before the signing of a peace pact in 1991, an estimated 3,000 people were killed in fighting for control of the business, which had attracted the attention of drug "cartels" as a possible means of laundering money.
