The Authority said it is very difficult to prove the existence of a cartel and pledged to monitor the situation in the town. |
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The site allows black-market money brokers to bid on the dirty dollars, which cartel financial chiefs want to convert to pesos. |
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The surprise is not that the cartel organised this system, but that they have got away with it for 200 years. |
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The normal purpose of any cartel is to keep prices high by controlling supply and demand. |
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First a formidable cartel makes a tight combine and launches an advertisement blitz against the hapless rivals. |
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In fact, a synthetic antimalarial called mepacrine was produced in the 1930s by the German chemical cartel IG Farben. |
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Lawyers always have a narrow and parochial interest in expanding the domain of human activity subject to their cartel. |
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Competition thwarted this cartel when members reneged on the deal, exceeding their quotas. |
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As cartel pricing crumbled, imports flooded in in large quantities for the first time. |
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And until they were totally destroyed, and the lab out of commission, the cartel would continue to bring in the shipments in this manner. |
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So we have a new capitalist giant being squashed by a cartel of more established capitalist giants. |
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Exclusion of generics will help consolidate the brand-name cartel and result in substantial waste of fund resources. |
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They have created a cartel in which chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgery are the only allowable and reimbursable therapies. |
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Since then the cartel has been attempting to show how responsible it is and has favoured price over volume. |
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The most serious forms of cartel identified by the authority were price-fixing, bid rigging and market sharing by competitors. |
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Also unheard-of was a cartel cornering a commodity such as crude oil, as long as the medium of exchange was gold. |
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The cartel wants economic growth, lots of borrowers, and lots of opportunities to lend newly created funny money at interest. |
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The two main parties have become a cartel, operating a tacit understanding not to broach any important issue. |
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This is the transition from sail to steam, in other words, and the owners of the sailboat cartel aren't very happy. |
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If these things had happened solely in the private sector, the members of the cartel would have been prosecuted under the Trade Practices Act. |
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You and your thunderer can feel free to pick up some of the load of defending the public from the Hollywood cartel. |
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Take away the outdated reasoning, and what you have is an old-fashioned cartel. |
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These claims are referenced elsewhere in popular narcocorridos, or cartel folk songs, glamorizing the junior gangster. |
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The poorest countries in the rurally protected cartel will be helped out of the mire of previously accepted Socialistic sinecurism. |
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As with the pure monopoly, companies would join a cartel in order to try to protect themselves from the harmful consequences of competition. |
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They organize a cartel for the purpose of raising the price for the product in question. |
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This policy of keeping inventories low will deny consumers a buffer against any production cutbacks that the cartel may make if prices weaken. |
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As is often the case in the cosy cartel of party politics, the bigger parties are more than happy to retain the status quo. |
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The party established a de facto political cartel that excluded other parties from power. |
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The country is poor, and has a history of sclerotic and unresponsive government run by a political cartel. |
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Every agent infiltrating a drug cartel is an agent who could be infiltrating a terrorist cell. |
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It need not necessarily be a cartel, though you never can be sure that it is not. |
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In some cases, the companies of a single cartel may have the same shareholders and managers, especially when they involve family members. |
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Admittedly, we wanted to retain the national cartel rules and the rules against unfair competition, but also to go one step further. |
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Each cartel is independent and is made up of about three main companies, for a total of nine companies. |
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In the area of cartel cases, this includes the coordination of investigative measures. |
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As a cartel, OPEC attempts to maintain oil prices by restricting its production. |
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Even then, rather than put an immediate end to the cartel, they took the decision to meet less frequently and with greater circumspection. |
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This can be justified in oil importing countries in terms of reducing dependency and vulnerability to potential cartel pricing. |
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Aid recipients found themselves facing a cartel of sponsors whose notion of aid effectiveness was too restrictive. |
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The loads end up in the hands of a Tijuana cartel that specializes in smuggling drugs across the border. |
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At the same time, other measures attack any production cartel which seeks to limit the impact of price falls in times of crisis. |
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Infuriated by government crack-downs, in 1984 the cartel embarked on a brutal reign of narcoterrorism. |
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But the asbestos cartel is so powerful that it has even the Conservative Government of Canada kowtowing to it today. |
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The Sinaloa cartel, which imposes its macrocosmos on organized crime, has only grown stronger whenever he's in prison. |
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The cartel men kept the phone numbers of ICE agents on their prepaid cellphones. |
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Hernandez had accused the government of bowing down to the Knights Templar drug cartel in the area. |
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Since 2007, violence linked to organized crime has spiralled in Mexico: the media have reported more than 14,000 drug cartel related killings. |
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Most observers believe the cartel is wary of letting prices rise too quickly for fear it would imperil an economic recovery. |
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A creditors' cartel can, in the best of all cases, act benevolently towards a debtor. |
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The cartel of oil-exporting countries shows no sign of flinching from its decision last year to keep market share by maintaining production. |
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Developing countries have also continued to review approaches to including the introduction of leniency programs in cartel investigations. |
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How do you feel about archer and the gang abandoning the cartel and returning to the office? |
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Did he go to the authorities to file a report against the Guerreros Unidos drug cartel? |
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In the meantime, there is talk that with El Chapo in prison the Sinaloa cartel has a new leader. |
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Burma's Wa tribe has become Asia's most dangerous drug cartel. |
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The Commission started the cartel investigation on its own initiative following a tip-off from an anonymous source. |
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Eventually, the collusion gets too expensive, and the cartel collapses unless it gets support from the government. |
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In his new film, savages, pot growers who enrage a drug cartel, are the protagonists. |
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Like many other cartels, the Lombard cartel went through good times and less good times, and had to endure crises on occasion. |
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Now, that hubris might lead to the dismantling of her fledging cartel, as the Argentine police claim to be hot on her tracks. |
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But it's hard on families who can only get a pricey casket through the funeral home cartel. |
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The shipments are taken to a stash house in a suburb of Los Angeles controlled by a high-level member of the Michoachan cartel. |
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Their purpose was to demonstrate top-level support for the cartel and to determine overall strategy. |
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Within a month of his investiture, Gaviria's government delivered an open signal of a willingness to negotiate and to bargain with the cartel. |
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Once the price increase was announced by one cartel member, the others would generally follow suit. |
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A powerful drug cartel, Los Zetas, is believed to be supervising migrant smuggling. |
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Things are bad and there's no real sign they're going to get any better soon, unless there's a bit more enthusiasm around forming a cartel. |
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A close relative of MarÃa's trafficed cocaine independently, she said, but still depended on the cartel to keep order in the state. |
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The new cartel provision will provide the commissioner with even stronger tools to challenge this type of anti-competitive practice. |
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A government sponsored price fixing cartel I guess is what he called supply management. |
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Manufacturers are likely to do what they can, maintaining somewhat of a cartel to hold prices steady. |
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Five people were arrested on April 22, on suspicion of laundering funds for a Mexican drug cartel. |
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They were tired of carrying the load for the cartel. |
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It declares that its acquisition of the Biacor plant was greeted with open hostility by the major citric acid producers and that it feared being put out of business by retaliation measures if it did not join the cartel. |
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From the outset, in March 1991, the principle that overselling participants would have to compensate those who undersold played a central role in the cartel arrangement. |
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The point is they're ready to fight the cartel in a war of nerves. |
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The co-operating users also object to the imposition of countervailing measures on the ground that this would raise an obstacle to a competitive market, and de facto help re-instate the cartel found in 2001 by the Commission. |
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He moved immediately to discipline the oil workers union and to otherwise increase the efficiency of the state-owned oil industry, while pressing the OPEC oil cartel to jack up prices. |
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Earlier in the summer people's imaginations had been fired by a lone consumer's successful Facebook-driven countrywide boycott of cottage cheese which, thanks to a cartel, was exorbitantly expensive. |
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The divergent interests of the cartel members may result in a consensus not being reached on all matters or in some points being vaguely formulated or glossed over. |
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In a bid to root out the Brotherhood the pair find themselves working as transporters for a drugs cartel headed by Montoya. |
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The applicant also alleges that the commercial pressure to which the applicant was subjected by the ringleader of the cartel mitigates the gravity of its infringement. |
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On its part, Hoffmann-La Roche submits that it was neither an instigator, nor a ringleader of the citric acid cartel, and that it did not urge any other company to take part in the infringement. |
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The Commission did not identify any ringleader, since the creation of the cartel, which followed various preliminary informal contacts, was a joint-initiative. |
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In such cases where the agreement does not create any value and therefore has no valid business justification, the arrangement is a sham and amounts to a cartel. |
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In support of its action, the applicant submits that the Commission was wrong to find it jointly and severally liable for payment of the fine imposed on its subsidiary, a member of the cartel. |
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This particular tunnel was reportedly associated with the Sinaloa drug cartel headed by Mexico's most infamous and elusive kingpin, JoaquÃn 'El Chapo' Archivaldo Guzmán Loera. |
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That alliance will survive the publication in Washington this week of an uncorroborated intelligence report from 1991 which claimed that Mr Uribe worked for the MedellÃn cartel of drug traffickers. |
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After Powerpipe outbid the cartel and won the Leipzig-Lippendorf project in March 1995 the reaction of the cartel was immediate: the German Contact Group met in Düsseldorf on 24 March and decided on a collective boycott. |
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It did not compel another enterprise to take part in the cartel and acted neither as an instigator nor played a determining role in the illegal activity. |
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Moreover, the members of the alleged cartel appeared to 'cheat' to such a degree that the meetings gradually lost their 'raison d'être', degenerating into social occasions before ceasing altogether. |
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Although ADM admits that, during the second period, it was attracted to collude with the other industry members, its participation in the cartel was that of the typicalcheater. |
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Analysts expect the cartel to keep its production quota unchanged while pressuring member countries to comply with their current production limits. |
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The TWC was authorized to license carting companies and individuals with criminal records or known associations with OC or the mob-dominated cartel were denied licenses. |
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The Gaviria government has gambled it can solve the politically motivated violence-the narcoterrorism-of the Medellin cartel by compromising established counter-terrorism principles. |
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According to the claimant, the basic amount of the fine was too high and the increases imposed for non-cooperation and its ostensible role as instigator and cartel leader were unjustified. |
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Without contesting the existence and duration of the cartel or the participation of its former subsidiary, the applicant contends that the Commission erred in law in determining the amount of the fine it imposed on it. |
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This small number of brokers ensures a cartel that realizes margins of roughly one third of the wholesale price for their brokering services only. |
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Twenty years later he attended a meeting hosted by John Chapman to campaign against the Booksellers Association, still a cartel. |
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This culture fostered the drug culture of valuing the family that is formed within the cartel. |
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Typically a drug cartel had support networks that consisted of a number of individuals. |
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Early bulbs had a life of up to 2500 hours, but in 1924 a cartel agreed to limit life to 1000 hours. |
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The collapse of the world tin cartel in 1983 finished what remained of the industry. |
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The death of Arturo Beltran Leyva in December 2009 resulted in infighting among different groups within the Beltran Leyva cartel. |
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In June 2009, a number of incidents occurred between the drug cartel and the government. |
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To manage such risk the forming of a cartel to control supply would seem logical. |
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A cartel is a group of firms that act together in a monopolistic manner to control output and prices. |
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After the surprise breakup of the world's largest potash cartel at the end of July 2013, potash prices were poised to drop some 20 percent. |
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Davy's party sailed from Plymouth to Morlaix by cartel, where they were searched. |
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General Electric was one of the pioneers and early widespread adopters of planned obsolescence, with a major part in the Phoebus cartel. |
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AoShe is tied up, disabled and disfigured woman hardly able to move the wheel chair given to her by the cartel of conspirators and abdicators. |
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It's been well-documented that the Gulf cartel has formed alliances with the Sinaloa cartel and to wage war against the Zetas. |
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Unfortunately for them, Rous was part of a cosy cartel, happy to keep those fledgling footballing nations at arm's length. |
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Hayes also said that medellin was not killed by a drug cartel. |
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He added that the market is oversupplied by non-OPEC members, ruling out the need for emergency meetings by the world oil-producer cartel. |
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But few, if any, will be willing to take the money, given that a painful and torturous death would likely follow at the hands of Guzman's compadres in the Sinaloa cartel. |
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The rent seekers are a cartel, as are the rent granters, and they use barriers to entry to maintain a continuing stream of benefits to them from the masses. |
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But if producers form a cartel in a market, they will collusively determine the price and output, thereby preventing market forces from operating. |
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Also, the high price set by the cartel would encourage new firms to enter the industry and offer competitive pricing, causing prices to fall once again. |
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The Syrian Lebanese drug cartels are the longest tenured drug cartel on the islands, having ridden the wave of cocaine exportation from the 1970s to the current day. |
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This cartel flagrantly violated the teachings of the church, which tried to justify it by pointing to the virtuous military campaigns it would finance. |
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Between 1924 and the outbreak of the Second World War, the Phoebus cartel attempted to fix prices and sales quotas for bulb manufacturers outside of North America. |
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The TV rights agreement between the Premier League and Sky has faced accusations of being a cartel, and a number of court cases have arisen as a result. |
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Any cartel of banks is particularly closely watched and controlled. |
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Authorities confirmed Miguel Trevino Morales, the alleged head of the Zetas cartel, was captured on Monday in the municipality of Anahuac, Nuevo Leon. |
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Other cartel members also undertook major economic development programs. |
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As the PAN party took control, drug cartel leaders took advantage of the ensuing confusion and used their existing influence to further gain power. |
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