Drug cartel

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Drug cartels are criminal organization developed with the primary purpose of promoting and controlling drug trafficking operations. They range from loosely managed agreements among various drug traffickers to formalized commercial enterprises. 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 cartels in the proper sense of the word, but the term stuck and is now popularly used to refer to any criminal narcotics related organization.

Drug shippments operate in many countries, including Colombia, Brazil, Central America, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Mexico, Afghanistan and South Asia. Some cartels are even establishing themselves in U.S. cities like New York, Miami, Phoenix, Houston, Atlanta, Los Angeles and San Diego.

Colombia

Colombian or just Colombian cartels is a generic term that usually refers to three, usually rival, criminal organizations involved in narcotrafficking in Colombia:

It sometimes also refers to other, lesser-known criminal organizations:

Other organizations in Colombia involved in drug trafficking include:

Significant cartels in Mexico

References


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