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• n  an illicit cartel formed to control the production and distribution of narcotic drugs

News & Articles

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• U.S.-Mexico border drug world unveiled after alleged cartel bodyguard's arrest
  EL PASO, Tx. — The former bodyguard of a high-ranking leader in a Mexican drug cartel offered insight into border drug smuggling after his arrest in El Paso, Tx., according to federal court documents.
  June 16, 2013 - The Lake County Record-Bee
• Drug cartel debt collector proud of killing 30: Alabama police
  By Verna Gates BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - A self-styled collector for a Mexican drug cartel who confessed to more than 30 murders after he was arrested last month saw himself as a person who cleansed the world of bad and abusive people, the investigator in the case said on Friday. California native Jose Manuel Martinez, 52, was arrested by U.S. border police in western Arizona last month ...
  June 15, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
• Drug world unveiled after alleged cartel bodyguard's El Paso arrest
  The former bodyguard of a high-ranking leader in a Mexican drug cartel offered insight into border drug smuggling after his arrest in El Paso, according to federal court documents.
  June 14, 2013 - El Paso Times