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That might help but being legal doesn't completely stop cartels. Oil is legal and yet OPEC still exists.


Oil is different in that it is not something one produces, but rather something that one simply finds. Drugs are produced by farming or chemical processes (or some combination), and most popular drugs can be produced at very low cost.


Another example: Maple syrup is legal and yet FPAQ exists.


You destroy meaning if you confuse the two different usages of the word.

When describing drug cartels, "cartel" means "mafia"

When describing the oil cartel, "cartel" means "monopolistic syndicate"

There is no comparison between OPEC and Los Zetas.

You shouldn't have even brought OPEC into this.


Maybe not OPEC, but reading about oil companies behaviour in places like Nigeria and the similarities with Los Zetas are there all right.


No, not quite.


http://premiumtimesng.com/business/5408-how_shell_connived_w...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/secret-pape...

Bribery, corruption and human rights abuses. How is this not Los Zetas style?




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