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The Benefits of Cartel Meetings
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The leaders of criminal organizations often hold meetings to discuss their shared interests, despite being in competition with one another. Imprisoning leaders and putting them in the same cell block is a tactic used to prevent them from running their empires.

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The organized neighborhood gangs are part of a hierarchy of shadowy organizations that are led by people known as razones, bandas criminales or mafias, who operate through an office or table.
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Organized Crime
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The organized neighborhood gangs are part of a hierarchy of shadowy organizations that are led by people known as razones, bandas criminales or mafias, who operate through an office or table.

Chapter
The Benefits of Cartel Meetings
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#273 – Chris Blattman: War and Violence
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Lex Fridman Podcast
Criminal organizations often engage in diplomacy to avoid unnecessary violence and commit to mutually beneficial agreements.
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Criminal diplomacy
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Criminal organizations often engage in diplomacy to avoid unnecessary violence and commit to mutually beneficial agreements. Imprisonment of leaders can be used as a tool for promoting diplomacy between rival gangs.

Chapter
The Benefits of Cartel Meetings
Episode
#273 – Chris Blattman: War and Violence
Podcast
Lex Fridman Podcast