Word: cartels
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...never been clear-minded about our national self-interest in cheap oil. Republican administrations, ostensibly devoted to the free market, have tolerated or even subtly promoted the oil price-fixing cartel. As part of the Nixon Doctrine in the early 1970s, the U.S. looked the other way as Saudi Arabia and Iran raised oil prices, hoping they would spend the money on military equipment and become the "twin pillars" of Middle East stability. (What a laugh! The Middle East military machines financed by high oil prices have been those of Ayatullah Khomeini and Saddam Hussein.) In 1986 Vice President George...
Bush's mission was on behalf of America's domestic oil producers. But as a net importer, America has an overall national interest in paying as little as possible for oil. The oil price-fixing cartel is in flat violation of U.S. antitrust laws. American oil producers are, in effect, auxiliary members. If the OPEC ministers met in Houston, they could be arrested on the spot. Perhaps the fact that they meet in foreign countries makes them immune from our law, but it should not make them immune from our contempt. And American soldiers should not die in the desert...
...Orleans and Texas, where they encounter fat-lady porn stars and a slick psychopath (Willem Dafoe) who loses his head, literally and spectacularly, in a bank heist. To Barry Gifford's source novel Lynch adds a murder plot, an Elvis impersonation, a few torture scenes, a drug cartel, some cockroaches and a happy ending complete with deus ex machina. Not to mention frequent references to The Wizard of Oz, with which Wild has precisely nothing in common...
...clapped one another on the back. Zuno is the most prominent of the seven men tried so far in connection with the still unsolved Camarena murder. U.S. Justice Department prosecutors charged that Zuno, arrested last year while visiting Los Angeles, was a top executive of the Guadalajara drug cartel and a power broker who used his political connections in Mexico City to protect vast cocaine and marijuana operations...
When DEA investigations threatened those operations, prosecutors said, Zuno plotted with drug kingpins and several prominent Mexican officials to have Camarena kidnapped and tortured. The object was to find out how much U.S. agents knew about the traffickers and their patrons in the government. A cartel bodyguard turned government witness testified that a few months before the abduction, Zuno told the other alleged conspirators that Camarena should be interrogated on what he knew about "my general," referring to General Juan Arevalo Gardoqui, then Mexico's Secretary of Defense. U.S. officials claim that a transcript of a torture-interrogation session, which...