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Re:Drug cartel ‘narco-antennas’ make life dangerous for Mexi... by haram_masala on Friday July 17, 2020 @09:52PM (#23878253)
The Sicilian Mafia has gone mostly “legit,” in the sense that they operate in legal industries, e.g. olive oil. They just use criminal means to extract hugely excessive rents from those industries.
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Re:Drug cartel ‘narco-antennas’ make life dangerous for Mexi... by sudosysgen on Saturday July 18, 2020 @01:45AM (#23879321)
They aren't competitive internationally, though. And can't be unless they're also going to go down to Morocco, fight the Army, invade Tunisia and Algeria, and then force the extraction of high rents.
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Re:Drug cartel ‘narco-antennas’ make life dangerous for Mexi... by vkou on Saturday July 18, 2020 @02:32AM (#23879509)
The amount of violence the Sicilian Mafia inflicts, while staggering, is an order of magnitude or more off from the cartels.
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