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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.
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 Colombian government efforts to reduce the influence of drug-related criminal organizations is one of the origins of the Colombian conflict, an ongoing low-intensity war among rival narcoparamilitary groups, guerrillas and drug cartels fighting each other to increase their influence and against the Colombian government that struggles to ...
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 ...
During the 1980s, he was one of the top operators in Escobar's Medellin ring, a supplier in its prime of 80% of the US cocaine market. The defunct Medellin cartel, along with the Cali cartel, was ...
The Cali Cartel (Spanish: Cartel de Cali) was a drug cartel based in southern Colombia, around the city of Cali and the Valle del Cauca. Its founders were the brothers Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela , Miguel Rodríguez Orejuela and José Santacruz Londoño .
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 ...
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]