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He suggested: "We have to see it as a strategy to weaken and break the economic system that allows cartels to make huge profits. "

The killings took place in the northwestern state of Sinaloa, home to one of Mexico's powerful drugs cartels.

Cartels are economic entities, and like any legitimate company the best are able to adapt in the face of a changing market.

He appealed for unity in the fight against drug cartels which he said were threatening to destroy Mexico's democratic institutions.

The incident was one of the worst acts of violence since the government launched major operations against drug cartels in 2006.

While it's unknown how much of Mexican drug cartels' income comes from marijuana, recent discoveries suggest it remains a large-scale trade.

Other cartels kidnap as a sort of violent conscription: to round up foot soldiers, argued Antonio Mazzitelli, head of the U.

Some of this isn't new: Colombian drug cartels, for instance, have been technologically advanced since the days of Miami Vice.

President Obama says he's cracking down on violent drug cartels at the Mexican border. He's getting tough . . . with a form.

With overt price-fixing cartels clearly illegal, the railroads turned to mergers as the way to eliminate competition between them.

Cartels are illegal and there is no suggestion that the OFT's inquiry is of a criminal nature.

But the administration wants the public to believe that it's going to disarm cartels with a form?

Blessing the cartels across the Atlantic and Pacific was a mistake, and should be reversed.

The old cartels are being bypassed thanks to technological advances and a more informal society.

Congress held hearings this week. Lawmakers urged the Obama administration to increase efforts to help Mexico crush the drug cartels.

The accord promises joint action to protect journalists, at least 20 of whom have been killed by the cartels since 2006.

Added to that, the government's crackdown on drug-trafficking cartels had led to a surge in violence, with apparently little pay-off.

The railroads' solution to the demands of their customers was to join together in price-fixing cartels themselves.

Legalization would move that trade into the open market, driving down the price and undermining the cartels' power and influence.

Police in Mexico say members of drug cartels blocked off at least 13 major roads in the city of Monterrey on Saturday.

Lawmakers urged the Obama administration to increase efforts to help Mexico crush the drug cartels.

Treating commodity cartels with benign neglect would be a mistake, however.

He is the only American citizen known to have moved so high in the command structure of the Mexican cartels.

If marijuana were legalized, the cartels would still make huge profits from the sale of these other drugs.

The Mexican Ambassador to the US Arturo Sarukhan said they were providing the drug cartels with the means to corrupt, bribe and kill.

What makes Mexico worrying is not just the raw numbers but the power of the cartels over society.

Zuniga is originally from Culiacan, the capital of Sinaloa state, birthplace of one of Mexico's most powerful cartels.

The American Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has held a day of talks in Mexico on ways of fighting the powerful drug cartels.

Analysts say President elect Pena Nieto will continue to confront the cartels, but in a more nuanced way.

Violent extremists, criminal cartels, sexual predators, and authoritarian governments all seek to exploit these global networks.

Those cartels also use some of the money to buy high-powered weapons in the United States and bring them back into Mexico.

"Fast and Furious" was supposed to take U. S. agents right to the Mexican drug cartels but here's the problem.

It consists of the feds buying up to 80 percent of all the Mexican cartels.

Thus, cooperation in the form of cartels or price-fixing may be illegal.

The insatiable demand for illegal drugs in the United States keeps the Mexican drug cartels in business.

It gives rise to drug cartels, prostitution rings, and violence associated with the protection of "their" territories.

Senseless rules that benefit cartels are common. Oklahoma protects consumers from the perils of unlicensed interior decorators.

Local justice officials say that they cannot yet establish a link between his death and the drug cartels operating in the area.

Price-fixing cartels were stopped in their tracks and the notorious Northern Securities and Standard Oil trusts were no more.

Nonmerger enforcement mainly has taken the form of action against domestic price-fixing cartels.

Or you can collude with your putative competitors : that's why cartels like OPEC exist .

They hope that monopolies, oligopolies and cartels can be controlled by government.

Access by residents to foreign finance and by domestic institutions to foreign risks makes such cartels inherently unstable.

To circumvent corrupt police, Calderon has used military forces against the powerful drug cartels.

As Ms Varney acknowledges, cartels were pursued enthusiastically, with record convictions, jail terms and fines.

Guinea-Bissau has become notorious as a transit point used by Latin American drug cartels for shipments of cocaine bound for Europe.

With-profits policies are vaguely defined contracts that are probably viable only in the traditional insurance world of benign cartels.

THE Mexican drug "cartels" are the most powerful organised-crime outfits inthe Western world.

Some experts on organized crime in Latin America, like Edgardo Buscaglia, say that cartels earn just half their income from drugs.

In the policing of cartels, the commission has adopted many of the methods and models of its American cousins.

A suspected senior member of one of Mexico's major drugs cartels has been arrested, officials say.

There were always suspicions of formal or informal banking cartels, which would agree on conditions and interest rates.

He wants a radical break with the cartels, sleaze and weak institutions of the post-communist era.

Cartels would adapt and continue making profits from cocaine, heroin, kidnapping and extortion.

Deploying the Mexican army and Marines as never before, Calderon fought the cartels head on, took out several kingpins.

Now, as Mexico piles pressure on its home-grown cartels, some are moving their operations south.

The cartels get their machine guns, grenades, missile launchers and tanks from Russia, China and South America.

In some parts of the country, threats from cartels have silenced traditional media.

As the report notes, chronic bid rigging on roads tenders is a sign the sector has been influenced by cartels.

The proponents of consumer-friendly cartels still find that the data support their theory.

For the cartels, killing a federal policeman or soldier is a symbolic win in a conflict that is increasingly fought in the public space.

Indeed, in recent years cartels have used an extensive portfolio of rackets and scams to diversify their income.

However, they are actually Mexican drug cartels to resist anti-narcotics police pursuit, self-converted cottage "tank. "

"Cartels are the low-hanging fruit, " says an official at the agency.

The interwar period was the hey - day of Cartels .

The Mexican navy has played a growing role in President Felipe Calderon's campaign against drugs cartels.

The problem was guns were going to fuel the violence of the cartels in Mexico.

The battlefield provides some evidence that certain cartels are being weakened.

But cartels derive a growing slice of their income from other illegal activities.

He also said lax U. S. gun laws and poor enforcement of them has armed Mexican drug cartels to the teeth.

Canpotex already controls about 25 per cent of global potash exports, putting the combined share of the two main cartels at 60 per cent.

Cartels are good at public executions, but they are also skilled at hiding bodies when necessary.

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About 90 per cent of victims are said to be members of warring drugs cartels.

And this ascendancy of the drug cartels is a global problem.

Violence is increasing in the country as the government takes on the illegal drug cartels, prompting them to retaliate brutally.

The Gulf and Zetas drug cartels have been locked in a bloody war for control in Veracruz state over the last year.

The drug cartels are fighting the government and each other as they compete for lucrative smuggling routes and drug profits.

As the usual habit of thrift, cartels or the lives of ordinary people lived.

But the cartels proved far too clever for the regulators.

Globalization has reached its peak, and the world has fallen under the control of several international cartels .

All this, so that the people know that the cartels are to be feared.

Its efforts, they say, have led cartels to battle each other for decreasing profits.

Mexican cartels have even begun building their own tanks.

After all, according to official estimates, marijuana constitutes 60 percent of cartels' drug profits.

Many of the old banks and law firms operated as monopolies or cartels.

Elsewhere in the world's freest economy, de facto cartels operate.

The few jobs that exist are mostly offered by cartels.

There will be other cartels and other shortages. American wisdom and courage right now can set a path to follow in the future.

Other factors are at play, too, such as meth trafficking by Mexican cartels and new methods for making small amounts of meth.

Drug cartels and poverty mean the capital of Venezuela, ranks the highest for murder and crime in the world.

antitrust: Opposing or intended to regulate business monopolies, such as trusts or cartels.

The drugs are cheap and they don't depend on [Western pharmaceutical] cartels.

They obviously need to raise the taxes on the cartels.

So if Apple has more cash than the government and drug cartels have more cash than Apple, what does that say?

Many of the agents are new, and the cartels are eyeing them up.

Some cartels, such as maritime transport, are officially exempt from anti-trust laws.

The cartels covered products such as vitamins, citric acid and stainless steel tubes.

Yet it is a highly profitable crop for the cartels, and in 2008 there were more than 750, 000 arrests for simple possession.

That must be some form! The administration claims it will help stop cartels from bringing drugs and mayhem to our country. Really?

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Opposing or intended to regulate business monopolies, such as trusts or cartels