21 September 2009

When Is a Cartel NOT A Cartel? In Mexico...When Dealing Drugs.

NYTIMES/ECONOMIX/
Some following Mexico’s cartels, like the Tijuana Cartel, the Sinaloa Cartel, the Gulf Cartel and the Beltran Leyva Cartel, acknowledge that the cartels are something else entirely.
“The term drug cartel is inaccurate and improperly used by media, based exclusively on strict economic fundamental theory,’’ Rodolfo Sosa-Garcia, a Mexican economist. He urged reporters to pick a more accurate term, such as “narco-producer."