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Since the 1970's, Colombia has been home to some of the most violent and sophisticated drug trafficking organizations in the world. What started as a small cocaine smuggling business has, in the last thirty years, blossomed into an enormous multi-national ... After the destruction of both the Cali and Medellin cartels,
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www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/business/inside/colombian.html
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Order Code RL34215; Mexico's Drug Cartels; October 16, 2007; Colleen W. Cook; Analyst in Latin American Affairs; Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division; ... Mexico's Drug Cartels; Summary; Mexico, a major drug producing and transit country, is the main foreign supplier of marijuana and a major supplier...
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www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL34215.pdf
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Once they were merely known as "mules" for Colombia's powerful cocaine cartels. Today, Mexico's narcotics traffickers have grown into drug lords in their own right, and the front line of the drug war has shifted from the Andean jungles to America's front door.
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www.emergency.com/mexdrg97.htm
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Media commonly presents Mexico s drug scene as a perfect copy of the Colombian model, ignoring, among other points, that drug trafficking in Mexico began about sixty years before the Colombians got an important share of the American drug market, the different political systems in both countries, and the historical...
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www.unesco.org/most/astorga.htm
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Cali Drug Cartel Marketing Analysis ... The drug cartel based in Cali, Colombia, is the largest player in the multi-billion dollar worldwide cocaine industry. ... Drug legalization in the US. This would destroy the trafficking industry overnight, but is unlikely due to the US political environment. Rumours persist that such...
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www.darkside.com.au/mba/cali.html
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International drug cartels - made up largely of Mexican nationals - seem especially drawn to the bounty. And their harvests can be huge: last year, officials here seized the biggest stash of all, with 34,000 plants in five locations at an estimated street value of $140 million.
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www.csmonitor.com/2003/0610/p01s03-usgn.html
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Elizalde's narco-ballad video and its aftermath highlight a new surge of Internet activity by Mexican drug cartels, whose mastery of technology gives them a huge advantage over law enforcement agencies.
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19 -- Mexican drug cartels now operate in almost every region of the United States and bring in as much as $23 billion a year in revenue, according to a Government Accountability Office report that will be released Thursday.
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www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/1...
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/19/AR2007091902442.html
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