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Griselda Blanco (1943–2012), known as the "Godmother of Cocaine", was a drug lord who operated between Miami and Colombia during the 1970s and 1980s. During the height of her operation, she smuggled nearly 3,500 pounds (1,600 kg) of cocaine into the United States every month through a well-established network in south Florida.
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 ...
The cartel is believed to have employed the services of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), a right-wing paramilitary organization internationally classified as a terrorist organization, to protect the cartel's drug routes, its drug laboratories, and its members and associates. The AUC is one of the 37 Foreign Terrorist ...
Jhon Fredy Zapata-Garzon, who collaborated with the infamous Clan del Golfo cartel in Colombia, was captured in early 2021. Colombian sanctioned as drug ‘kingpin’ faces cocaine-smuggling ...
Cali Cartel traffickers (14 P) E. Pablo Escobar (3 C, 11 P) M. ... Pages in category "Colombian drug traffickers" The following 65 pages are in this category, out of ...
Colombia is the largest producer of cocaine in the world, [86] and cocaine production in Colombia reached an all-time high in 2017. [87] Active Colombian drug cartels: The Black Eagles; Clan del Golfo; Oficina de Envigado; National Liberation Army (Colombia) FARC dissidents; Los Rastrojos; Historical Colombian drug cartels: Medellín Cartel ...
Mexico's Sinaloa, Jalisco Nueva Generacion, Zetas and Beltran Leyva drug cartels are the top buyers and traffickers of cocaine produced by criminal groups in Colombia, including current and former ...
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]