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The DEA arrest of a Colombian drug lord in 2008. Illegal cocaine trafficking from Colombia is routed through Venezuela to the northern part of Mexico and then further to the United States. In 2012, serious action was initiated by the Venezuelan, Colombian, and U.S. authorities working together to apprehend the drug lords in Venezuela.
The profits of kidnapping helped finance the ring's move to drug trafficking, originally beginning in Marijuana and eventually spreading to cocaine. The cartel's estimated revenue would eventually reach an estimated $7 billion a year. [28] [29] [30] The cartel's influence spread to the political and justice system.
At the end of 1981 and the beginning of 1982, members of the Medellín Cartel, Cali Cartel, the Colombian military, the U.S.-based corporation Texas Petroleum, the Colombian legislature, small industrialists, and wealthy cattle ranchers came together in a series of meetings in Puerto Boyacá and formed a paramilitary organization known as ...
Authorities say this seizure will cause drug cartels to lose more than $8.4 billion. Authorities seized more than 1,400 metric tons of illicit drugs, including 225 tons of cocaine and 128 tons of ...
EXCLUSIVE: Rakontur has wrapped production on The Last of the Cocaine Cowboys, a four-part documentary miniseries on Medellín Cartel co-founder Carlos Lehder. Described by the U.S. Department of ...
Carlos Enrique Lehder Rivas (born 7 September 1949) [9] is a Colombian and German former drug lord who was co-founder of the Medellín Cartel.Born to a German father and Colombian mother, [10] he was the first high-level drug trafficker extradited to the United States, after which he was released from prison in the United States after 33 years in 2020.
In February, Colombian authorities on a search-and-rescue mission for two missing fishermen found a "narco sub" loaded with more than 4 tons of cocaine. A few weeks before that, the Colombian navy ...
Cocaine production shifted to Colombia; 1982 new U.S. - Colombia 'Extradition treaty' mandated the extradition of trans-national narcotics traffickers to the U.S. for trial for crimes [20] Medellín cartel blows up Avianca flight 203, in an attempt to assassinate Cesar Gaviria Trujillo (a presidential candidate) killing 107 people. [7] [19]