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cartel

[kahr-tel] / kɑrˈtɛl /


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María Elisa Camargo, who returns to the series as cartel leader Valeria Garza, admits the fanbase is "a tough crowd".

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

“For the cartel, it is the cheapest way for them to do business,” said Kevin Carter, owner of Collateral Consultants, a rental car recovery company in Texas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026

Anthropic’s Dario Amodei has called on the world’s leading artificial-intelligence labs to slow down development and asked Washington to grant an antitrust exemption so they can coordinate on safety without being treated as a cartel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

“It is hard not to see this as coordinated cartel behavior,” Luria said in a note to clients on Monday.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026

Right before their eyes he had transformed his syndicate into an international cartel.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

For decades, the Indigenous Guard has defended remote Colombian territories against powerful guerrillas and drug cartels, without firearms.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

And in recent years, cartels have increasingly splintered as leaders have been arrested.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026

Gen. Francisco Franco, Spain’s dictator at the time, encouraged cartels to spend their money there, turning a blind eye to the peaceful spending of ill-gotten gains, as long as there was no violence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

According to Reuters, some of the data contains details about officials' job assignments, including sensitive work against Chinese spies, Russian intelligence and drug cartels.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Whilst we were fighting those battles of their interest and as their soldiers, how should we feel, if we were to be excluded from all their cartels?

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) by Edmund Burke


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