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Cartel Kidnaps Jalisco Mayor's Wife, Demands Public Security Chief's Removal as Ransom

www.latintimes.com Cartel Kidnaps Jalisco Mayor's Wife, Demands Public Security Chief's Removal as Ransom

The cartel had previously kidnapped the mayor and his son, releasing them after he agreed to replace the security chief—but the change never took place.

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What's the difference between a cartel and a mobster? Not joking. They seem to use it more in Mexico.
Cartel Definition
A combination of independent business organizations formed to regulate production, pricing, and marketing of goods by the members.
An official agreement between governments at war, especially one concerning the exchange of prisoners.
A group of parties, factions, or nations united in a common cause; a bloc.
- Nothing at all they're crime syndicates. Maybe how they operate specifics or the culture but the triad, the Yakuza, whatever else. they're just groups okay doing illegal things who seek out a monopoly on violence typically against the state they live within or something right?
- Ancestry, essentially.
  The term mafia applies to Italian-Americans.