cartel
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The cartel nears the end of a cycle of production hikes, while potentially difficult talks over future quotas loom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Anna Sabine MP, Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for Culture, Media and Sport said Fifa behaves "more like a closed-shop cartel than a neutral global sporting body".
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
To boot, prosecutors said, the captain also “reported receiving what he believed were radio calls from the cartel attempting to hail the Aquatravesia prior to a boarding or takeover.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
Iraq, in particular, has asked the cartel to raise production quotas to make up for the shortfall it incurred during the war in the Middle East, the Iraqi Oil Ministry said in late June.
From Barron's ● Jul. 5, 2026
Right before their eyes he had transformed his syndicate into an international cartel.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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In its statement, DHS denied HSI has neglected its core mission, saying the agency has increased its efforts to combat criminal cartels, gangs and drug traffickers in response to multiple Trump executive orders.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
The visa revocation comes soon after senior U.S. officials described Mexico as a country controlled by drug traffickers and vowed to pursue Mexican officials who collude with the nation’s powerful cartels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
He says Zhang was "the one with the connections" in China, and the cartels had to "start from scratch and build a new route".
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
Much of the world still thinks of Latin American organized crime in terms of cut-throat cocaine cartels and cavalier capos like Pablo Escobar.
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026
The wagon was drawn off the road, and the weary oxen let loose, while we stretched ourselves on the cartels, but found the heat too great to let us recover any of our lost sleep.
From The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911 by A. R. (Augustus Robert) Buckland
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Mexico - High School
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