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After authorities uncovered a body and arrested cartel members at a ranch in the state of Jalisco in Mexico, the investigation seemed to come to a stop. Months later, families searching for missing relatives took a look for themselves. Read more from @AssociatedPress about what they found.
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#Mexico #Cartel #Disappeared #Jalisco #Drugs #DrugWar


Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, the Mexican drug lord who founded the Sinaloa cartel with Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, is in plea talks with U.S. federal prosecutors to avoid a trial. @abc has more.

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#Chapo #Mayo #Mexico #Sinola #Cartel #US #Drugs


Interesting, there's a carrot cartel in the US.

Forbes:
"At least 60% of those carrots are produced by just two companies, Bolthouse and Grimmway, both of which were acquired by buyout firms, in 2019 and 2020 respectively.

“There’s only two sources,” Adam Waglay, cofounder and co-CEO of Bolthouse owner Butterfly Equity, told Forbes. “We joke around — it’s kind of like the OPEC of carrots.”

Cartels are less funny for neighbors of the two producers in Southern California’s Cuyama Valley, who are calling for a boycott of Big Carrot..."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/chloesorvino/2023/11/21/inside-the-two-companies-that-dominate-the-us-carrot-crop/

#carrot #cartel #monopoly
At least 60% of those carrots are produced by just two companies, Bolthouse and Grimmway, both of which were acquired by buyout firms, in 2019 and 2020 respectively.

“There’s only two sources,” Adam Waglay, cofounder and co-CEO of Bolthouse owner Butterfly Equity, told Forbes. “We joke around — it’s kind of like the OPEC of carrots.”

Cartels are less funny for neighbors of the two producers in Southern California’s Cuyama Valley, who are calling for a boycott of Big Carrot over the amount of water their farms are sucking out of the ground. In 2022, Bolthouse and Grimmway together were responsible for 67%, or 9.6 billion gallons, of the area’s total water use.