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    The Medellín Cartel (Spanish: Cártel de Medellín) was a powerful and highly organized Colombian drug cartel and terrorist organization originating in...
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    the Medellín Cartel. The death of Pablo Escobar led to the dismantling of the Medellín Cartel and the rise of the Cali Cartel. While the Cali Cartel operated...
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    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...
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  • Colombian narcoterrorist and drug lord Pablo Escobar, leader of the Medellín Cartel and billionaire through the production and distribution of cocaine...
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    Griselda Blanco (category Medellín Cartel traffickers)
    also been claimed by some to have been part of the Medellín Cartel. She was shot dead in Medellín on September 3, 2012 at the age of 69. Griselda Blanco...
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  • Barry Seal, a former TWA pilot who became a drug smuggler for the Medellín Cartel in the 1980s and then, in order to avoid jail time, became an informant...
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    Cali Cartel was less violent than its rival, the Medellín Cartel, more inclined toward bribery rather than violence. While the Medellín Cartel was involved...
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    since the 1970s, centered successively on four major drug trafficking cartels: Medellín, Cali, Norte del Valle, and North Coast, as well as several bandas...
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    cartel to be the largest and most powerful drug trafficking organization in the world, perhaps more influential than Pablo Escobar's Medellín Cartel of...
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    Carlos Lehder (category Medellín Cartel traffickers)
    a Colombian and German former drug lord who was co-founder of the Medellín Cartel. Born to a German father and Colombian mother, he was the first high-level...
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    Barry Seal (category Medellín Cartel traffickers)
    commercial airline pilot who became a major drug smuggler for the Medellín Cartel. When Seal was convicted of smuggling charges, he became an informant...
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    The Medellín cartel allegedly went on to combine forces with the M-19 movement and use it as its own private paramilitary force. The Medellín cartel in...
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    Jorge Ochoa (category Medellín Cartel traffickers)
    trafficker who was one of the founding members of the Medellín Cartel in the late 1970s. The cartel's key members were Pablo Escobar, Carlos Lehder, José...
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  • leader of the Medellín cartel. Fabio Ochoa played by Robert Urbina (season 1), a founding member and former leadership of the Medellín cartel and Jorge’s...
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    and Medellín cartels in the 1990s. By 2007, Mexican drug cartels controlled 90% of the cocaine entering the United States. Arrests of key cartel leaders...
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  • member and former leader of the Medellín Cartel Roberto Urbina as Fabio Ochoa – a high-ranking member of the Medellín Cartel Diego Cataño as Juan Diego "La...
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    Dandeny Muñoz Mosquera (category Medellín Cartel traffickers)
    childhood nickname), is a former sicario (paid assassin) for the Colombian Medellín Cartel, a prominent drug trafficking enterprise in Colombia in the late 1980s...
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    José Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha (category Medellín Cartel traffickers)
    Mexican), was a Colombian drug lord who was one of the leaders of the Medellín Cartel along with the Ochoa brothers and Pablo Escobar. At the height of his...
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    Miguel Rodríguez Orejuela (category Cali Cartel traffickers)
    Cartel supplied 80% of the United States and 90% of the Europe cocaine market. The Cali Cartel was less violent than its rival, the Medellín Cartel....
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    Gustavo Gaviria (category Medellín Cartel traffickers)
    Pablo Escobar's cousin and right-hand man, Gaviria controlled the Medellín cartel's finances and trade routes. He and Escobar had collaborated in their...
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    La Catedral (redirect from Club Medellín)
    prison overlooking the city of Medellín, in Colombia. The prison was built to specifications ordered by Medellín Cartel leader Pablo Escobar, under a 1991...
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    Avianca Flight 203 (category Medellín Cartel)
    also ordered by the Medellín Cartel, killed 63 people in Bogotá. Dandeny Muñoz Mosquera, the chief assassin for the Medellín Cartel, was convicted in 1994...
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  • Cali and Medellín Cartels fragmented, and it was known as one of the most powerful organizations in the illegal drug trade. The drug cartel was led by...
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    Cali Cartel was less violent than its rival, the Medellín Cartel, more inclined toward bribery rather than violence. While the Medellín Cartel was involved...
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    Minister of Justice Rodrigo Lara Bonilla against the Medellín Cartel. The biggest blow against the cartel was dealt by Colonel Ramírez (later Brigadier General)...
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  • form the Elite Command whose mission was to capture the leader of the Medellín Cartel, Pablo Escobar. This was the first stage that culminated in June 1991...
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  • John Jairo Arias Tascón (category Medellín Cartel traffickers)
    13 June 1990), known as Pinina, was a member of the Medellín Cartel. He took power in the cartel's military wing and was accused of hundreds of murders...
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  • Enforcement Administration agent who investigated Pablo Escobar and the Medellín Cartel. Peña worked as a consultant on the Netflix series Narcos. Peña was...
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    José Santacruz Londoño (category Cali Cartel traffickers)
    the cartel supplied 80% of the United States' cocaine supply.[citation needed] The Cali Cartel was less violent than its rival, the Medellín Cartel. While...
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  • Max Mermelstein (category Medellín Cartel traffickers)
    1942 – September 12, 2008) was an American drug smuggler for the Medellín Cartel in the late 1970s and early 80s, who later became a key informant against...
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