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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    Dandeny Muñoz Mosquera (category Medellín Cartel traffickers)
    nickname), is a former sicario (hitman; paid assassin) for the Colombian Medellín Cartel, a prominent drug trafficking enterprise in Colombia in the late 1980s...
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    of the Medellín Cartel and leader of its military wing, being naturally against the extradition defended by Galán. Apart from the Medellín Cartel, the Cali...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • Rafa Salazar (category Medellín Cartel traffickers)
    former Medellín dealer turned informant. He was murdered by unknown gunmen in Medellín in 1987. Salazar was first associated with the Medellín Cartel operating...
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  • Juan David Ochoa Vásquez (category Medellín Cartel traffickers)
    trafficker and one of the founders of the Medellín Cartel, a major drug trafficking cartel based in the city of Medellín. Juan David was the elder brother of...
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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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