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• n  a consortium of independent organizations formed to limit competition by controlling the production and distribution of a product or service

• Now that Pablo Escobar is behind bars, the Cali cartel controls the lucrative -- and deadly -- business of putting cocaine on America's streets.
• If the Cali cartel is to be attacked successfully, there must be pressure in Colombia.
• The drug-cartel origins of the money are now erased.

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• corporate trust
• combine

News & Articles

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• Alleged cartel member admits to killing 30 in US
  Everyone knows that smoking kills. But in the case of on confessed cartel hit man, it also helps catch killers.
  June 13, 2013 - Fox News
• Spud Cartel: Grocers Allege Potato Group Pumped Up Prices
  BOISE, Idaho - A U.S. wholesale grocer says America's potato farmers have run an illegal price-fixing cartel for a decade, driving up spud prices while spying on farmers with satellites and aircraft fly-overs to enforce strict limits on how many tubers
  June 13, 2013 - Las Vegas Review-Journal
• Cartel Quick, winner of Ruidoso Futurity, euthanized
  Cartel Quick, who won Sunday’s $750,000 Ruidoso Futurity for Quarter Horses at Ruidoso Downs, was euthanized Monday because of kidney failure, according to his owner, Sergio Enriquez.
  June 11, 2013 - Daily Racing Form

Quotes

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• John McCain in amNewYork
  I don't think it's going much lower, and it could go higher,McCain said on NBC's "Today Show." "I don't think so, not when you've got a finite supply, basically, and a cartel controlling it."
• Angela Merkel in Forbes
  The confessions and investigations so far are not sufficient to sort things out,Merkel said in a statement Friday. "All doping sinners now have the chance to be honest and break the cartel of silence, if they want to give their sport the...
• Joaquin Almunia in Reuters
  The cartel will have harmed businesses such as builders and plumbers and, ultimately, a large number of families,Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said in a statement.