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: He also was responsible for the assassination of politicians, presidential candidates, police officers, journalists, and Colombian supreme court justices. Groups that were often designated as terrorist organizations, including Hezbollah, Ḥamās, the Shining Path in Peru, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, FARC in Colombia, and ETA in Spain, were later also described in terms of their involvement in narco-terrorism. Many of these groups began as Marxist socialist organizations and were defined as such until the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991. In this instance, the Cold War, the war on drugs, and the war on terrorism merged indistinguishably. The connection between drugs and terrorism was made even more explicit in UN Security Council Resolution 1373. 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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…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.