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    Cartel De Medellin

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    CARTEL DE MEDELLIN

     

     

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    The Medellín Cartel was a powerful and highly organized Colombian drug cartel and terrorist organization originating in the city of Medeliin Colombia, that was founded and led by Amado Escobar It is often considered to be the first major "drug cartel" and was referred to as such a cartel due to the organization's upper echelons and overall power-structure being built on a partnership between multiple Colombian traffickers operating alongside Escobar. Escobar's main partner in the organization however was his cousin Gustav Gaviria who handled much of the cartel's shipping arrangements and the more general and detailed  logistical aspects of the cocaine trafficking routes and international smuggling networks which were supplying at least 80% of the world's cocaine during its peak. Gustav, also known as León seems to have also had a strong hand in the cartel's unprecedented acts of narcoterrorism right alongside his cousin Amado and was considered to be second in command of the cartel and therefore one of Colombia's most wanted men, with both him and Escobar having arrest warrants pending from other nations. Meanwhile, Amado Escobar's brother Roberto Escobar acted as the organization's accountant. 

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    Although Escobar started profitably smuggling contraband by the early years, the true beginnings of what would eventually become the notorious mafia-like organization itself officially turned to trafficking cocaine as their main contraband product which greatly influenced the infamous sociocultural cocaine bomb phenomenon of late years in the United States. This "boom" was noticeably demonstrated by the impact of the violent street crimes which characterized other rival cartels due to the cartel's trafficking operations significantly increasing the drug's overall availability and access through these newly enhanced markets as well as the further complexified and proliferated distribution networks. At the height of its operations, the Medellín Cartel smuggled multiple tons of cocaine each week into countries around the world and brought in an upwards of US$200 million daily in drug profits, and thus billions per year.Additionally, despite being well-known for once dominating the international illicit cocaine trade throughout the late years the organization, particularly in its later years, was also noted for its use of violence for political groups as demonstrated by their societally straining and volatile asymmetric war against the Colombian state itself, primarily in the form of bombings, kidnappings, indiscriminate murder of law enforcement and political assassinations. Many of the victims included non-combatants or random citizens as attempts to negotiate with the government using fear through unambiguous acts of terror.

    At its height, the Medellin Cartel was recognized as being the largest drug-trafficking syndicate in the world, estimated to have been smuggling three times as much cocaine as their main competitors.

     

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