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Topic: Drug cartel

Fairgoers are pictured in front of the Smith & Wesson display stand (Emanuele Cremaschi/Getty Images)

Gun manufacturers target drug cartels

Jon Skolnik
This Feb. 22, 2014 file photo shows Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the head of Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel, being escorted to a helicopter in Mexico City. (AP/Eduardo Verdugo)

El Chapo found guilty on 10 counts

Matthew Rozsa
(HBO)

Oliver takes on Border Patrol

Taylor Link
(Lionsgate)

The dark allure of "Sicario"

Andrew O'Hehir
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(Cinema Slate)

Weirdest true-crime tale ever

Andrew O'Hehir
Vigilantes of the Autodefensa movement celebrate the "liberation" of a town in the Mexican state of Michoacán, in a scene from "Cartel Land."

Road trip to the drug war

Andrew O'Hehir
A distraught relative is held back after three men on a public bus were killed by unknown gunmen in the Pacific resort city of Acapulco, Mexico, Monday March 1, 2013. (AP/Bernandino Hernandez)

Don Winslow on the drug war

Elias Isquith
Soldiers stand guard next to bags of marijuana being displayed to the media at a military base on the outskirts of Monterrey, Mexico. (Reuters/Tomas Bravo)

Nicolas J.S. Davies - Alternet
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An Oct. 31, 2013, photo released by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shows agents in a tunnel designed to smuggle drugs from Tijuana, Mexico, to San Diego. (AP/U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Paul Caffrey)

Jill Langlois - GlobalPost
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