medellin cartel

English Thesaurus

1. a drug cartel in Colombia; controlled the production of cocaine from the 1970s until 1993 when the leader was killed (noun.group)

instance hypernym	:	drug cartel,
definition	:	an illicit cartel formed to control the production and distribution of narcotic drugs (noun.group)

domain region	:	colombia, republic of colombia,
definition	:	a republic in northwestern South America with a coastline on the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea; achieved independence from Spain in 1821 under the leadership of Simon Bolivar; Spanish is the official language (noun.location)