drug cartel

基本解釋

Joaquin Guzman Loera, head of Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel, slipped to No. 60 from No. 41;
墨西哥錫那羅亞販毒集團(tuán)的頭子，華金?古斯曼?洛埃拉從去年的第41位下降到今年的第60位；
Signs left near the bodies declared the pair, both apparently in their early 20s, were killed for posting denouncements of drug cartel activities on a social network.
在尸體附近留下的布告宣稱，兩人顯然在20歲出頭，由于在一個(gè)社交網(wǎng)絡(luò)上公開(kāi)抨擊販毒集團(tuán)活動(dòng)而遭到了殺害。
Social media users who denounce drug cartel activities along the Mexican border received a brutal warning this week: Two mangled bodies hanging like cuts of meat from a pedestrian bridge.
社會(huì)媒體的用戶譴責(zé)墨西哥邊境販毒集團(tuán)的活動(dòng)，他們本周收到一個(gè)殘酷的警告：兩個(gè)被亂砍的尸體像肉塊那樣懸掛在一座步行橋上。

FBI Director Robert Mueller said the drug cartel has transformed itself into what he called a sophisticated criminal organization.
Washington has provided material aid to the Calderon government and is coordinating anti-cartel efforts with Mexican authorities, using the Drug Enforcement Administration office in Houston as the spearhead.
The gang,which was formed in U.S.prisons, works in league with the Azteca band in Juarez, which is affiliated with the Juarez drug smuggling cartel headed by Vicente Carillo Fuentes.

However, the recent upswing in drug cartel-related violence has thrown the risk-reward calculus into question.
FORBES: How Violence In Mexico Impacts Nearshoring