A report on the rise and fall of Carlos Salinas and Raul Salinas and Mexico's narco-political corruption ...

Since the 1970's, Colombia has been home to some of the most violent and sophisticated drug trafficking organizations in the world. What started as a small cocaine smuggling business has, in the last thirty years, blossomed into an enormous multi-national cocaine empire. Traffickers today have enough capital under their control to build sophisticated smuggling equipment, such as a high tech ...

Jung is a convicted drug trafficker. He started out as a marijuana smuggler in the early 1970's and eventually became involved in cocaine smuggling on a massive scale as part of Colombian trafficker Carlos Lehder's organization. He's portrayed by Johnny Depp in the movie Blow (2001). Let's just start out by talking about marijuana days, how you came to be a marijuana dealer, how did that happen

Ochoa was a narcotrafficker from Medellin, Colombia and a principal member of the Medellin cocaine cartel. The cartel's key members were Pablo Escobar, Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha, Jorge Ochoa and his brothers Juan David and Fabio. Juan David turned himself in to Colombian authorities in 1991 and served five years in jail. He currently lives in Medellin, Colombia. How did you and your brothers ...

Excerpted from: ERRI DAILY INTELLIGENCE REPORT-ERRI Risk Assessment Services-Monday, August 25, 1997-Vol. 3 - 237 DRUG CARTEL INTELLIGENCE OPERATIONS By Steve Macko, ERRI Crime Analyst The title of this report may confuse the reader. Some might think that this report will discuss law enforcement intelligence operations against illicit drug traffickers. That would be an incorrect assumption. This ...

From: ERRI DAILY INTELLIGENCE REPORT-ERRI Risk Assessment Services-Thursday, December 4, 1997 Vol. 3 - 338 TODAY'S MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS By Steve Macko, ERRI Crime Analyst Once they were merely known as mules for Colombia's powerful cocaine cartels. Today, Mexico's narcotics traffickers have grown into drug lords in their own right, and the front line of the drug war has shifted from the Andean ...

Colombia Arrests Suspected Head of Cali Cartel THE CALI CARTEL INDICTMENTS September 1995 On June 9, a Colombian elite police squad arrested one of the most important suspected Cali cartel leaders named in the Cali cartel indictment, Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela (Steven Gutkin, Colombia Arrests Leader of Top Drug Cartel, Washington Post, June 10, 1995, p. 1). The arrest came during a raid on ...

Cali Drug Cartel Marketing Analysis by Matthew Kwan The drug cartel based in Cali, Colombia, is the largest player in the multi-billion dollar worldwide cocaine industry. Although their operations are highly illegal, opposed by both Colombian and US law enforcement agencies, and despite their top personnel being imprisoned or on the run, the cartel continues to run a very effective operation.

CNN Presents: The rise and fall of the Cali cocaine cartel January 6, 1995 Web posted at: 9:15 a.m. EST From Correspondent Brian Barger CALI, Colombia (CNN) -- The Cali Cartel was at one time the world's largest supplier of cocaine. Based in Colombia's third largest city, it was a powerful crime syndicate generating $8 billion a year, according to U.S. estimates. The cartel moved cocaine from ...