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Post by silverwolf on Jan 1, 2008 15:39:04 GMT 10
NAME: Cartels/Drug Cartels
FACTS:
-The Drug Cartels are mainly Colombian Cocaine smugglers.
-They started in the 1970's smuggling Marijuana into the U.S but then later on started smuggling thousands of kilos into the U.S.
LARGE COLOMBIAN CARTEL ORGANISATIONS: -The Medellin Cartel
-The Norte del Valle Cartel.
-The Cali Cartel
GENERAL FACTS
-Pablo Escobar is the man who started the Medellin Cartel, he had a income of $30 billion each year.
-Norman's Cay was a Island in the Bahamas. It was a resort for drug dealers and drug barons.
-George Jung was the man that brought the Cocaine trade into America in the 1970s.
-Tranquilandia was a secert place in the Jungles in Colombia which had the largest drug factory in the world. It was made deep in the Jungle about 250ks from any main rood, with fourteen Laboratory complexes, seven planes, a airstrip, 13.8 metric tons of Cocaine and 11,000 drums of chemicals. With it worth up to 1.2 billon. The Police raided it from air to car and destoryed everything.
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Post by jaydenl on Jan 1, 2008 18:43:50 GMT 10
There is another cartel group known as the Norte del Valle Cartel.
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Post by silverwolf on Jan 1, 2008 20:22:46 GMT 10
Are there Colombian? I got these two ones because they are major ones. lol
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Post by jaydenl on Jan 1, 2008 20:58:57 GMT 10
Yeah there Colombian one of the most powerful Colombian Cartels.
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Post by silverwolf on Jan 1, 2008 21:21:11 GMT 10
Ok. I've heard of the name but not read about them.
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Post by silverwolf on Feb 2, 2008 16:19:43 GMT 10
The Norte Valle Cartel leader was shot down and killed today.
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Post by jaydenl on Feb 2, 2008 22:22:48 GMT 10
Yeah, I just heard about that. Thats the risk you take when your Drug Kingpin. But that wasn't today was it? I heard it was Wednesday.
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