Title: Drug cartel | Britannica
Headings: Drug cartel
Drug cartel
Colombian drug cartels
Mexican drug cartels
Other cartels
Narco-terrorists
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Drug cartel

Content: The resolution, adopted in the immediate wake of the September 11, 2001, attacks in the United States, remarked on “the close connection between international terrorism and transnational organized crime, illicit drugs, money-laundering, illegal arms-trafficking, and illegal movement of nuclear, chemical, biological and other potentially deadly materials” and emphasized the “need to enhance coordination of efforts on national, subregional, regional and international levels in order to strengthen a global response to this serious challenge and threat to international security.” Richard J. Samuels
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…had responded to the drug cartels by launching widespread security operations that grew to involve tens of thousands of members of the military. As the violence increased and the number of those killed mounted (by September 2011 surpassing a total of 47,000 related deaths since the Calderón administration began its…
Ernesto Samper
…PL’s involvement with the Cali drug cartel were supported by the release of tape recordings of telephone conversations between the cartel’s leaders, in which they discussed campaign contributions to the PL and meetings with Santiago Medina, the campaign’s treasurer. In 1995 Colombia’s attorney general, Alfonso Valdivieso Sarmiento, announced that his…
narcotic
Narcotic, drug that produces analgesia (pain relief), narcosis (state of stupor or sleep), and addiction (physical dependence on the drug). In some people narcotics also produce euphoria (a feeling of great elation). A brief treatment of narcotics follows. For full treatment, see drug use. The main therapeutic use of narcotics is…
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