Drug cartel
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| - | '''Drug cartels''' are [[criminal organization]]s developed with the primary purpose of promoting and controlling [[Illegal drug trade|drug trafficking]] operations. They range from loosely managed agreements among various drug traffickers to formalized [[commercial enterprise]]s. The term was applied when the largest trafficking organizations reached an agreement to coordinate the production and distribution of cocaine. Since that agreement was broken up, drug cartels are no longer actually [[cartel]]s, but the term stuck and it is now popularly used to refer to any criminal narcotics related organization, such as those in [[Colombia]], [[Guatemala]], [[Honduras]], [[El Salvador]], [[Trinidad and Tobago]], [[Jamaica]], [[Dominican Republic]], [[Mexico]], [[Afghanistan]], and [[Pakistan]]. Some cartels are establishing themselves in the [[U.S.]] | + | A '''drug cartel''' is any [[Organized crime|criminal organization]] with the intention of supplying [[Illegal drug trade|drug trafficking]] operations. They range from loosely managed agreements among various drug traffickers to formalized [[commercial enterprise]]s. |
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A drug cartel is any criminal organization with the intention of supplying drug trafficking operations. They range from loosely managed agreements among various drug traffickers to formalized commercial enterprises.
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