Verkkoa new criminal business model after the war on drugs. The cartel expansion into oil theft illustrates how organised crime can pivot when faced with state repression. Before the crackdown, oil theft was largely the work of small, local groups known as huachicoleros. These groups lacked the resources to engage in oil theft at. 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. Verkkofour americans were kidnapped by a drug cartel, and two of them were murdered, when they visited the town of matamoros, mexico. Verkkothe study, published today in science, reveals that cartels collectively “employ” some 175,000 people in mexico, making them the fifth largest. 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) — mexican president andrés manuel lópez obrador blamed the united states in part on thursday for the surge in cartel.
