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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. [29] [30] [31] The cartel's influence spread to the political and justice system.
The Cali cartel then hired a member of Colombia's military, a civil engineer named Jorge Salcedo. [ 65 ] [ 66 ] They wanted him to help them plot an assassination of Pablo Escobar. They hired him because they heard that Salcedo had in the past, befriended and hired a group of mercenaries to wage war against the left-wing guerrilla forces in an ...
Six “narco subs” filled with cocaine and other drugs were found en route to Australia by a team of international authorities led by Colombia.. A team of more than 60 countries, including the ...
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 ...
Medellin, Colombia: Years active: Early 1990s–present [1] Territory: Medellín, its area and all Antioquia Department: Ethnicity: Colombian: Activities: Drug trafficking, extortion, murder, money laundering, terrorism, bootlegging and gun-running: Allies: Los Zetas Colombian paramilitary drug groups Los Rastrojos Sinaloa Cartel Moroccan mafia ...
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 ...
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 ...