Drug Trafficking

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Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera, known as El Chapo, rose from a small opium poppy-growing family in Sinaloa, Mexico. He entered the drug trade in the 1970s and later led the S...

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George Jung is a former American drug trafficker known for smuggling large quantities of cocaine into the United States during the 1970s and 1980s. His activities made him one o...

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Richest drug lords are individuals who led major trafficking organizations and accumulated vast illicit wealth. Pablo Escobar, the former head of the Medellín Cartel, is often...

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Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera, known as El Chapo, led the Sinaloa Cartel, one of Mexico's most powerful drug trafficking organizations. The cartel moves large quantities of...

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Drug trafficking is one of the most profitable illicit economies in Guatemala. Analysts and government reports estimate that transnational narcotics organizations generate billi...

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A Columbian drug lord is a powerful leader of major cocaine trafficking networks based in Colombia. These figures historically controlled production, smuggling routes, and distr...

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The Medellin cartel was a Colombian drug trafficking organization led primarily by Pablo Escobar, along with the Ochoa family, Carlos Lehder, and Jorge Luis Ochoa. These leaders...

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Griselda Blanco, known as the "Cocaine Godmother," built a smuggling network in Miami and Colombia during the 1970s and 1980s. Pablo Escobar, the "King of Cocaine," led the Mede...

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Griselda Blanco died on September 3, 2012 , in Medellín, Colombia. She was killed by a gunman on a motorcycle who shot her on a public street. The act is widely described as a...

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George Jung is widely known as a pivotal figure in the American cocaine trade of the 1970s and 1980s. This evergreen profile breaks down his early life, rise in drug smuggling,...