Word: cartelism
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...right, too. Years ago, before the scientific verdict on the dangers of smoking was conclusive, consumers were practically helpless. They had few clues about the lethal properties of the three-inch unfiltered weapon held tightly between their fingers. The smoking industry--an age-old cartel deriving economic sustenance from marketing death--certainly wasn't about to tell them...
Pizarro was the third presidential candidate assassinated in the past nine months. Colombian authorities say the wholesale slaughter of politicians is part of the desperate strategy of Pablo Escobar Gaviria, the Medellin drug cartel chieftain who is wanted in the U.S. Army and police officials believe they have Escobar trapped in Envigado, a satellite of Medellin. To prevent his escape, Envigado's mayor has been replaced by an army colonel, and an extra 900 national police have been assigned to Medellin. A person authorized to speak for the cartel told TIME that Escobar has assigned his top hit men specific...
...agents charge that Camarena was questioned and killed by a cabal of cartel leaders and top Mexican police, military and intelligence officials who wanted to find out what he knew about Mexican corruption. A Los Angeles grand jury has indicted 19 men for the murder, among them two senior police officers appointed by former Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid. Several other prominent Mexicans, including De la Madrid's Defense Minister and intelligence chief, are under investigation by the grand jury...
DRUGS FOR YEN. Colombia's Cali drug cartel, seeking to beat out the rival Medellin cartel, has been recruiting U.S. traffickers willing to go on a long journey. Destination? Japan, a nation ripe for exploitation. Cocaine sells there for $85,000 a kilogram, in contrast to $17,000 in Miami. Japanese police, according to a secret Drug Enforcement Administration cable, do not have a simple computer system to store criminal histories, much less one that can analyze telephone toll records or trace money-laundering trails...
...girdles. Sterling studied wiretap and court transcripts, then interviewed cops, judges, prosecutors and even Mafiosi. Her book shows how the failure of U.S. and Italian authorities to compare notes and settle turf disputes allowed the Sicilians to win the heroin war. While Washington focuses on the Medellin cocaine cartel, the Sicilians merrily push heroin Stateside and are opening up new cocaine channels to Europe -- both East and West. Their newest target? Says Sterling: the Soviet Union...