How to Use cartel in a Sentence

cartel

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  • There is a lot of art talking about amazing things at the border that is not just about the fence and about drug cartels.
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2023
  • Guides paid by the Sinaloa cartel, leading people through one of numerous gaps in the wall.
    — Longreads, 23 Feb. 2024
  • And the cartel controls its employees with an iron fist.
    — Steve Fisher, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The cartel operatives take them to the border and drop them off near the break in the wall, according to the official.
    — Mireya Villarreal, ABC News, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Pluma has performed several songs from the POV of a Sinaloa cartel member.
    — Vulture, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The discovery did not come easy, as the team trekked through a dangerous area watched by drug cartels, crossed alpine swamp, sifted through the tall grass.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 16 Aug. 2023
  • In three of those cases, cartel members used the guns in violent attacks, the lawsuit states.
    — Kevin Krause, Dallas News, 31 July 2023
  • He was brought to the U.S. at age 7 after his family fled Mexico’s drug cartels.
    — Janelle Griffith, NBC News, 16 July 2023
  • World & Nation How many people work for the Mexican drug cartels?
    — JosÉ Antonio Rivera and MarÍa Verza, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2023
  • In the context of cartel violence, that energy puts young people in a lot of danger.
    — Holly Jones, Variety, 18 Jan. 2024
  • He was accused of conspiring with drug cartels to move more than 400 tons of cocaine toward the United States.
    — Andrew Torgan, CNN, 10 Mar. 2024
  • Pablo Escobar, leader of the Medellín cartel, was one of the world’s most powerful drug traffickers in the 1980s.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Oil prices swung after the OPEC+ cartel agreed to another output cut of 1 million barrels per day.
    — Anna Hirtenstein, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The 50 states have a common enemy, and that enemy is the Mexican drug cartels.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff and Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 2 Feb. 2024
  • At any rate, the local chocolate cartel is determined to freeze Willy out, with the help of a corrupt constable (Keegan-Michael Key).
    — Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 15 Dec. 2023
  • At the time, American pro wrestling functioned, in Riesman’s apt description, as a cartel.
    — Dan Greene, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2023
  • That cartel culture presents itself as tales of resistance and coming out of poverty.
    — Holly Jones, Variety, 20 Mar. 2024
  • In the second, another informant said that a founder of the Zetas cartel gave $4 million to two of his allies in an effort to win release from prison.
    — Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Fentanyl is so cheap to make that the cartel reaps immense profits even wholesaling the drug at 50 cents per pill, prosecutors said.
    — CBS News, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Saucedo said the cartels provide resources, drugs, weapons and personnel.
    — Karol Suárez, The Courier-Journal, 23 Feb. 2024
  • And part of that is, labeling cartels as terrorist organizations will help get the House to 218 votes.
    — CBS News, 17 Dec. 2023
  • The Washington lawsuit alleged that the system was designed to police compliance of the cartel.
    — Heather Vogell, ProPublica, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Massive shootouts occurred between cartel members and Mexican armed forces around the city.
    — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 16 Sep. 2023
  • But the cartel has lost territory and influence in recent years to its rivals, according to the think tank InSight Crime.
    — CBS News, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Over time, the conflict grew to feature a wider array of armed groups including leftist rebels, right-wing paramilitary groups and drug cartels.
    — Glynn A. Hill, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2023
  • But cartel countries can already see how slowing demand is hurting their prices and profits.
    — Jim Tankersley, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2023
  • The cartel also traffics heroin and methamphetamine in multi-ton quantities, the agency said.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 10 May 2023
  • Hoping to launch a new money-making venture, Hank and Cristobal hold a summit between two rival cartels at Dave & Busters.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Police alleged that the massacre was drug cartel related.
    — Andrew Sheeler, Sacramento Bee, 19 Feb. 2024
  • Thousands have traveled to the United States — many on foot — passing through several countries and dodging smugglers and cartels.
    — Paulina Villegas, Washington Post, 8 May 2023

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