Before the crackdown, oil theft was largely the work of small, local groups known as huachicoleros.

The cartel expansion into oil theft illustrates how organised crime can pivot when faced with state repression.

These groups lacked the resources to engage in oil theft at.

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Verkkothe influx, migration experts say, was spurred in part by cartels forcing people out of their homes with threats of recruitment, extortion or death.

Verkkoculiacan, mexico (ap) β€” mexican president andrΓ©s manuel lΓ³pez obrador blamed the united states in part on thursday for the surge in cartel.

Verkkodespite the widespread fear they sow through extortion, murder and kidnapping, groups like the gulf cartel and their rivals, the sinaloa cartel, profess a twisted code of.

Verkkothe study, published today in science, reveals that cartels collectively β€œemploy” some 175,000 people in mexico, making them the fifth largest.

Verkkofour americans were kidnapped by a drug cartel, and two of them were murdered, when they visited the town of matamoros, mexico.

Verkkoa new criminal business model after the war on drugs.

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