Cartel names
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Beyond the drug lords of Sinaloa and Jalisco: Trump’s blacklist designates six Mexican cartels as terrorist organizations
The first designations of Mexican cartels as terrorist groups are on the table. The Donald Trump administration is targeting the Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), two of the most powerful criminal forces in the world, for a first round of sanctions, The New York Times reported. Pending an official announcement, other organizations with extensive influence in Mexico are also on the blacklist, such as La Familia Michoacana, the Gulf Cartel and the Cartel del Noreste (CDN), a splinter group of Los Zetas, as well as Cárteles Unidos, an amalgam of cells that operate in the south of the country. The paradigm shift heralds an unprecedented chapter in more than six decades of the war on drugs.
Trump issued an executive order on January 20, his first day in office, to designate drug cartels as terrorist organizations, elevating the threat of drug trafficking to the orbit of national security and making available to the U.S. military the to
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Drug cartel
Group drug trafficking operations
A drug cartel is a criminal organization composed of independent drug lords who collude with each other in order to improve their profits and dominate the illegal drug trade. Drug cartels form with the purpose of controlling the supply of the illegal drug trade and maintaining prices at a high level. The formations of drug cartels are common in Latin American countries. Rivalries between multiple drug cartels cause them to wage turf wars against each other.
The basic structure of a drug cartel is as follows:
- Falcons: Considered as the "eyes and ears" of the streets, the "falcons" are the lowest rank in any drug cartel. They are scouts, who are responsible for conducting reconnaissance, such as reporting the activities of the police, the military and rival groups.[1]
- Hitmen: The armed group within the drug cartel, responsible for carrying out assassinations, kidnappings, thefts and extortions, operating protection rackets, as well as defending their plaza (turf) from rival groups and the military.[2]&#
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Cartel
Mutually beneficial collusion among competing corporations
This article is about economic cartels. For drug cartels, see Drug cartel. For other uses, see Cartel (disambiguation).
A cartel is a group of independent market participants who collude with each other as well as agreeing not to compete with each other[1] in order to improve their profits and dominate the market. A cartel is an organization formed by producers to limit competition and increase prices by creating artificial shortages through low production quotas, stockpiling, and marketing quotas. Cartels can be vertical or horizontal but are inherently unstable due to the temptation to defect and falling prices for all members.[2]
Additionally, advancements in technology or the emergence of substitutes may undermine cartel pricing power, leading to the breakdown of the cooperation needed to sustain the cartel. Cartels are usually associations in the same sphere of business, and thus an alliance of rivals. Most jurisdictions consider it anti-competitive behavior and have outlawed such
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