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Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera ( Spanish: [xoaˈkin aɾtʃiˈβaldo ɣusˈman loˈeɾa]; born 4 April 1957), [5] commonly known as " El Chapo ", is a Mexican former drug lord and a former leader within the Sinaloa Cartel, an international crime syndicate. He was considered to be one of the most powerful drug traffickers in the world.
Guzman is the most notorious drug lord of all time, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). [6] In the 1980s, he was a member of the Guadalajara Cartel and used to work for Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo. After Félix's arrest in 1989, Guzmán formed the Sinaloa Cartel along with Ismael Zambada García and Héctor Luis Palma ...
José Santacruz-Londoño. José Santacruz Londoño (1943–1996) was a Colombian drug lord from Santiago de Cali. Along with Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela and Miguel Rodríguez Orejuela, Santacruz Londoño was a leader of the Cali Cartel. The trio was profiled in a Time magazine cover story in July 1991.
Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria ( / ˈɛskəbɑːr /; Spanish: [ˈpaβlo eskoˈβaɾ]; 1 December 1949 – 2 December 1993) was a Colombian drug lord, narcoterrorist, and politician who was the founder and sole leader of the Medellín Cartel. Dubbed "the king of cocaine", Escobar was one of the wealthiest criminals in history, having amassed an ...
Click to skip ahead and jump to the 10 biggest drug busts in U.S. history. This month the DEA made the biggest meth bust in American history: 2200 pounds of meth, nearly 900 pounds of cocaine, and ...
Amado Carrillo Fuentes ( / fuˈɛntəs /; December 17, 1956 – July 7, 1997) was a Mexican drug lord. He seized control of the Juárez Cartel after assassinating his boss Rafael Aguilar Guajardo. [1] [2] Amado Carrillo became known as " El Señor de Los Cielos " ("The Lord of the Skies"), because of the large fleet of jets he used to transport ...
t. e. Griselda Blanco Restrepo [2] (February 15, 1943 – September 3, 2012) was a Colombian drug lord who was prominent in the cocaine -based drug trade and underworld of Miami, during the 1970s through the early 2000s, and who has also been claimed by some to have been part of the Medellín Cartel. [3] [4] [5] She was shot dead in Medellín ...
The Sinaloa Cartel (Spanish: Cártel de Sinaloa, CDS, after the native Sinaloa region), also known as the Guzmán-Zambada Organization, the Federation, the Blood Alliance, [4] [5] [6] or the Pacific Cartel, [7] is a large, international organized crime syndicate based in the city of Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico [8] that specializes in illegal drug trafficking and money laundering.