Cali Cartel organization
also: Cali, Cali cocaine cartel, Cali Man operation, Cali cartel's, Cali dealers, Carly cartel
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Claims (23)
Colombia covered_up
Cali Cartel host_asserted
“narco-trafficking. You have the narco elite. We talked at Nauseam about this. You have the Cali cartel, which never makes the news because it's basically state-sponsored. And to a certain extent, the Medellin cartel, now that they got rid o…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Devil’s Chessboard Part 1 @ 1:21:37
Los Pepes created by
Cali Cartel book_quoted
“They did so on the basis of information from the CIA, which was transmitted via special squads of the Colombian National Police, trained by the same CIA. The U.S. Embassy had intelligence reports that, in fact, Los Pepis had been created by…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 7 @ 27:19
Cali Cartel funded
Ernesto Samper book_quoted
“suggesting strongly that the Cali cartel had put $3.5 million into the electoral campaign of the actual winner of the political process, Ernesto Samper, S-A-M-P-E-R. The revelations allowed the U.S. government to take stern measures with th…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 7 @ 28:20
Cali Cartel covered_up
FARC host_asserted
“busting or the Colombian government busting, and I'm going to use that in air quotes, a FARC lab was a hoax. What the DEA would do and what the Colombian government, this AUC organization, the real, the Cali cartel and the Medellin cartel, …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Cocaine Death Squad & the War on Terror Part 2 @ 1:12:46
Daniel Blanton trafficked
Cali Cartel host_asserted
“They like you, see? Shit, they... Oh, he has a whole bunch of cuss words, basically saying that he knows everybody in the new government. Blanton wasn't just bragging, though. A DEA informant who had worked for Blanton informed federal agen…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22 @ 45:15
Norwin Menendez trafficked
Cali Cartel documented
“The CIA, in a recent declassified 1986 cable, described Menendez as the kingpin of narcotic traffickers in Nicaragua prior to the fall of Somoza. The agency would later describe him as the Cali cartel's representative in Nicaragua. And they…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 4 @ 8:54
CIA covered_up
Cali Cartel host_asserted
“fell out of favor with the CIA. And the CIA never addressed the Cali cartel because it was part of the protection of the state apparatus in Colombia as the designated cartel. And so the taking down of Pablo Escobar was part of his noncompli…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 13 @ 1:44:57
Cali Cartel succeeded
Medellin Cartel host_asserted
“The Cali cartel simply took over Escobar's market share and a new era of trafficking was established and linked to the narco elite, the Colombian state, and the U.S. This became ever more apparent under President Alvaro Uribe Velez. And aga…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads & the War on Terror Part 5 @ 51:12
Cali Cartel founded
Los Pepes documented
“The National Police at the Hemisphere School at Fort Benning, along with some of the Colombian officers, one of which walked out of the door when I was walking in. This is crazy. The U.S. Embassy had intelligence reports that, in fact, Los …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 1 @ 24:49
Ivan Ramirez Quintero spied_on
Cali Cartel host_asserted
“Ramirez directed the state's war against Pablo Escobar and provided political protection for the Cali cartel, because we're going to pick the winners and losers, and the losers are always the people that don't support us 100% of the time. A…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads&The War on Terror Part 8 @ 5:58
Carriana trafficked
Cali Cartel host_asserted
“family and needed Carriana to supply them. He organized a network that smuggled 11 metric tons of cocaine to Italy in 91 through 94. That's interesting. That's while I was there. Carriana brought together the cocaine suppliers of the Cali c…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner LIVE RESEARCH INTO OPERATION GLADIO @ 1:07:10
North Valley Cartel succeeded
Cali Cartel book_quoted
“that had taken over for Medellin and Cali. Vega claims that corrupt U.S. agents are part of the Bogota connection and seriously compromised his role as a government asset in a number of his informants within the Colombian narco network beca…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 7 @ 12:14
Santiago Ocampo headed
Cali Cartel book_quoted
“He was basically in charge of the Cali cartel and dual-hatted as the president of MAS, which is basically a terrorist organization that we funded. He was able to travel in and out of the United States with zero difficulty. The DEA officers …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 7 @ 7:58
Cali Cartel headed
Ochoa Brothers host_asserted
“Or a who Ella brothers in the Cali cartel played a vital role in the national coordination of Columbia's narco economy and the cartels representatives in their political system. The cartel system was not simply a group of gangsters who ran …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads & the War on Terror Part 5 @ 8:12
Cali Cartel funded
Los Pepes host_asserted
“The investigation conducted by Amnesty International in 2001 led to a lawsuit to obtain CIA records of Las Pepas peoples persecuted by Pablo Escobar, a vigilante group set up by Carlos Castano and backed by the Cali cartel. So again, the co…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads & the War on Terror Part 5 @ 47:07
Carlos Castano member_of
Cali Cartel host_asserted
“Castano was instrumental in bringing down Escobar by collaborating with the CIA while working directly as the leader of the Cali cartel. By 1989, the Cali cartel had become the principal source of information to all of the Colombian securit…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads & the War on Terror Part 5 @ 47:59
USAID trained
Cali Cartel host_asserted
“According to a declassified State Department cable and the U.S. Embassy in Bogota, Padilla was especially disturbed over the influence of the Cali cartel in numerous levels of government, and as a result, had simply had enough of the situat…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads & the War on Terror Part 5 @ 50:43
Ron Lister trafficked
Cali Cartel book_quoted
“Lister went on to say that he could not wire transfer the money from the account again since it was originally laundered with the assistance of the CIA. At this point, Lister explained how he and the CIA used to transport multiple hundreds …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 21 @ 1:06:39
Hugo Martínez trafficked
Cali Cartel host_asserted
“It was created within the police force because military involvement in the drug trade was no secret. But the police force was set up by the CIA, so it's not going to be any better. The commander of the force, Colonel Hugo Martinez, and the …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 4 @ 48:16
Erich Vargas trafficked
Cali Cartel host_asserted
“It was created within the police force because military involvement in the drug trade was no secret. But the police force was set up by the CIA, so it's not going to be any better. The commander of the force, Colonel Hugo Martinez, and the …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 4 @ 48:16
Cali Cartel carried_out_attack
Cali documented
“and is in close contact with the U.S. Ambassador, Department of Defense, and National Command Authority. The American Special Operations personnel consisting of Colombian covert operations is top secret. However, the following incident carr…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and the War on Terror Part 7 @ 33:31
Marcos Aguardo trafficked
Cali Cartel guest_asserted
“told him that he once took a Salvadoran Air Force bomber and leveled a warehouse full of metalene cocaine on behalf of the state-owned Cali cartel. Another time, he made plans to bomb the prison where Pablo Escobar was imprisoned. Agordo al…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 14 @ 51:47
Marcos Aguardo supplied_arms_to
Cali Cartel guest_asserted
“told him that he once took a Salvadoran Air Force bomber and leveled a warehouse full of metalene cocaine on behalf of the state-owned Cali cartel. Another time, he made plans to bomb the prison where Pablo Escobar was imprisoned. Agordo al…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 14 @ 51:47
Mentions (71)
▶ 16:26
At the beginning of this, in the 1970s, there was basically two quote-unquote cartels, which is a term they began using then, the Cali Cartel and the Medellin Cartel. Well, the Medellin Cartel decided that, and both was under CIA observatio…
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what the author talks about as primarily a cartel system in Colombia to actually embedding it in the infrastructure. And he does a really good job of kind of documenting how that whole process started. And he refers to it as the post-cartel…
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Genoa Montoya Organization, also known as the Norte de Valle Cartel, with which the AUC, the Cali Cartel, was affiliated. By the end of the 20th century, Colombia had become the most advanced cocaine-producing country in the Crystal Triangl…
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and Spain was considered the gateway into Europe. The Medellín cartel had attempted to establish a monopoly control over the trade without negotiating market share with other enterprises, which is why it was decapitated. The Cali cartel, on…
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to link together the various components of the industry to a broader drug trafficking organization with opportunities to branch into other markets such as heroin and amphetamines. According to a UN report that was issued in 1994, the year a…
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In spite of the rise of illicit transnational corporations in developing countries, the Cali cartel remains, in effect, the developing country's most successful transnational corporation.…
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and a lieutenant approximately 1,500 a month. The AUC, again, that's the Cali cartel alone, had approximately 8,000 soldiers in the 1990s, soaring to at least 30,000 in the mid-2000s. The 30 aircraft, 11 of which was Cessnas, four shipping …
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In 1994, discovery of a computer owned by a member of the Cali cartel offered clues on the complexity of the system. It illustrated technological sophistication of the narco economy. The computer was a $1.5 million IBM mainframe. And again,…
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Network. That was all IBM computers as well. This computer was networked with a half a dozen terminals and monitors and six technicians overseeing its operation. The cartel had assembled a database that conta…
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The Colombian government had established a toll-free hotline for information about Cali cartel leaders, but a former high-ranking DEA official said, quote, all of these anonymous callers were immediately identified and they were killed, unq…
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In addition to surveillance and encryption technology, submarines have been used by drug trafficking operations for at least two decades. The Cali cartel purchased a Soviet Tango-class diesel submarine in 1990. Italian engineers, after over…
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and is in close contact with the U.S. Ambassador, Department of Defense, and National Command Authority. The American Special Operations personnel consisting of Colombian covert operations is top secret. However, the following incident carr…
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In the resulting symbiosis between the military assistance, the FARC, and a flourishing narco economy, the CIA became more and more directly involved in drug trafficking. For example, it is not disputed that in 1993, while working for the C…
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The National Police at the Hemisphere School at Fort Benning, along with some of the Colombian officers, one of which walked out of the door when I was walking in. This is crazy. The U.S. Embassy had intelligence reports that, in fact, Los …
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where Carlos Castano, the future leader of the AUS, Moss's successor organization, so Moss, the paramilitary organization, turns into the AUC, and the AUC is led by Castano. And that's the Cali cartel, eventually. Okay? And the Israeli and …
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The poor in the barrio Pablo Escobar prefer to forget Pablo's violent reputation. Escobar's brother, Roberto, says they called him El Patron, the boss, out of respect. People began to call him that because he would supply truckloads of food…
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Colombia's financial system, creating financial connections throughout the Colombian economy. The active participation of banks in the cocaine industry greatly strengthened financial connections with the narco elite. The Cali cartel metamor…
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CIA Director William Casey contended at the time that the laboratory was guarded by the FARC and planned by the Medellin cartel. But it was later revealed that the laboratory was being ran by the Cali cartel and protected by the Colombian a…
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The event would have destroyed most political careers. But between 95 and 97, Alvaro Uribe was the governor of one of the big areas. And in 2002, he goes on to become president of Colombia, a known drug trafficker. All right. While he was g…
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It was created within the police force because military involvement in the drug trade was no secret. But the police force was set up by the CIA, so it's not going to be any better. The commander of the force, Colonel Hugo Martinez, and the …
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They did take care of their people. They got medical care and did a bunch of things for them, I guess, to increase their out, to look out for them and protect them if somebody was coming through. But we saw talking to the governors and stuf…
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funneled through and laundered from drug money. I said, well, I don't want it coming at me directly, so I'm really easy to put a line in the sand here. Yeah. I see you, Illini. Hey, Colonel. Good to see you. Happy Friday. Happy Friday. You …
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It has this interesting Russian military and Cali cartel tie-in where they wound up trying to buy a whole bunch of helicopters and even a submarine from the Russian military right after the Soviet Union collapsed. And it was all going to th…
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I think the Cali cartel eventually got busted. They got taken down by the U.S. government and the Colombians by the mid-90s, I want to say. But it's kind of interesting to follow all of the interesting politics around that. Yeah, a lot of v…
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had exclusive access to them through their connections with the narco state. The principal cartels based in Medellin and Cali controlled 80%, sometimes more, of the cocaine exported from Colombia. Other quasi-independent groups centered in …
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like those that worked in the labs. The profits of cocaine placed an enormous concentration of economic power in the narco elite. To a certain extent, this was centralized power with leadership structure composed of the heads of the dominan…
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had attended any college university. On the other hand, traffickers from the rival Cali cartel came from privileged background. They were nicknamed Los Caballeros, the gentlemen of Cali, as opposed to the hoodlums of Medellin. Large portion…
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newspaper editorials portrayed Escobar as a public-spirited man who contrasted sharply with the selfish, hypercritical Colombian political establishment. Conversely, the Cali cartel, meanwhile, showed no interest in social issues at all bec…
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was trafficking cocaine through Venezuela with the knowledge of the CIA so they could blame Venezuela for the trafficking, even though it was being done by the CIA and primarily the Cali cartel, which is exactly what happened in Afghanistan…
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The investigation conducted by Amnesty International in 2001 led to a lawsuit to obtain CIA records of Las Pepas peoples persecuted by Pablo Escobar, a vigilante group set up by Carlos Castano and backed by the Cali cartel. So again, the co…
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Its findings pointed to, quote, an extremely suspect relationship between the U.S. government and the Castano family at a time when the U.S. government was well aware that the family's involvement in paramilitary violence, i.e. death squads…
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Castano was instrumental in bringing down Escobar by collaborating with the CIA while working directly as the leader of the Cali cartel. By 1989, the Cali cartel had become the principal source of information to all of the Colombian securit…
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you can keep track of what's going on. Okay. Intelligence reports later confirmed that Los Pepes had in fact been created by the Cali cartel. Los Pepes fraternized with at least two DEA agents.…
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According to a declassified State Department cable and the U.S. Embassy in Bogota, Padilla was especially disturbed over the influence of the Cali cartel in numerous levels of government, and as a result, had simply had enough of the situat…
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The Cali cartel simply took over Escobar's market share and a new era of trafficking was established and linked to the narco elite, the Colombian state, and the U.S. This became ever more apparent under President Alvaro Uribe Velez. And aga…
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grandson, I believe it is, is the guy that was shot in June and just died a couple of weeks ago, running for president too. So this is the family of drug traffickers posing as politicians. So under Uribe, who released the Cali cartel's foun…
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almost immediately after his inauguration as president in November 2002. So, they don't really care about narco-trafficking. The brothers, their services no longer required, were later extradited to the U.S. Business assets worth $2 billion…
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Not misguided evil network that has been set up that propagandize us and ends up using our own money against us because these drugs flow in here and kill our loved ones. Exactly, Colonel. And what I don't think a lot of people look at at th…
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Ramirez directed the state's war against Pablo Escobar and provided political protection for the Cali cartel, because we're going to pick the winners and losers, and the losers are always the people that don't support us 100% of the time. A…
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busting or the Colombian government busting, and I'm going to use that in air quotes, a FARC lab was a hoax. What the DEA would do and what the Colombian government, this AUC organization, the real, the Cali cartel and the Medellin cartel, …
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the port. So he is addressing the drugs coming into America. Yeah, but I was going to say, you do know that they said record drug busts, just like you're describing under Obama, as they were working with the Sinaloa cartel, right? You're aw…
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told him that he once took a Salvadoran Air Force bomber and leveled a warehouse full of metalene cocaine on behalf of the state-owned Cali cartel. Another time, he made plans to bomb the prison where Pablo Escobar was imprisoned. Agordo al…
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Lister went on to say that he could not wire transfer the money from the account again since it was originally laundered with the assistance of the CIA. At this point, Lister explained how he and the CIA used to transport multiple hundreds …
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Yeah, I had no idea that that cartel was actually I mean, it doesn't surprise me at all because the CIA set up both the Cali and Medellin cartel and most of the cartels in Mexico. So it's not shocking at all. It's just fun when you stumble …
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They like you, see? Shit, they... Oh, he has a whole bunch of cuss words, basically saying that he knows everybody in the new government. Blanton wasn't just bragging, though. A DEA informant who had worked for Blanton informed federal agen…
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The CIA, in a recent declassified 1986 cable, described Menendez as the kingpin of narcotic traffickers in Nicaragua prior to the fall of Somoza. The agency would later describe him as the Cali cartel's representative in Nicaragua. And they…
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business was the cover for cocaine laboratories. And this is during the Somoza government. So they know all about this. And these guys are connected to the Cali Cartel, which is the state-sponsored narco group of Colombia. In fact, he had b…
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San Francisco. I guess his surname is Carvey Hall. Carvey Hall was part of a ring of international cocaine dealers located in Cali, Colombia. Isn't that nice? We know all about the Cali cartel in Colombia, don't we? That was the CIA-sanctio…
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that they didn't like. A group that would later become known as the Cali Cartel. By the early 1990s, the Cali dealers would operate the world's biggest cocaine network, eclipsing all others. But in 1981, few in the U.S. law enforcement circ…
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in the papers at the time, where all of a sudden there were these stories about the Medellin cartel. And Ron just kind of said out loud, what the hell is with the news media? There are all these stories about the Medellin cartel and nothing…
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Ron said that the Cali cartel is where all the power is concentrated. That's where the power structure is, and no one is even bothering them. They're getting ready to expand their market to Europe. They're buying cargo ships and airplanes. …
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and the Alka family in Colombia. The founders, of course, and then in the DEA report, they blamed it on the Medellin cartel, when we know for a fact that they were dealing directly with the Cali cartel. The Bolivian cocaine was coming into …
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narco-trafficking. You have the narco elite. We talked at Nauseam about this. You have the Cali cartel, which never makes the news because it's basically state-sponsored. And to a certain extent, the Medellin cartel, now that they got rid o…
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false flags and would stage, they'd kill a FARC soldier and steal their, you know, distinctive looking garb and plant it in a lab that was being ran by the Cali cartel to say, oh, this is a FARC establishment. So we need more money. Let's d…
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with farms, and it was the only way they could feed their family. And the traffickers in the Medellin and with Pablo Escobar, they all worked for the CIA. This campaign distorted the truth in two respects. It falsely implicated the FARC, an…
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were basically communists that were trying to overthrow a perfectly fine democratic government, when in fact the government and the paramilitaries were trained and equipped by the CIA. One alliance that he highlights is Santiago Ocampo. You…
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affected U.S. drug policy overall and particularly in Colombia. A concerted U.S. propaganda campaign was mounted in 1984 against alleged drug trafficking by a conspiracy involving Nicaraguan Sandinistas, Colombian narco-guerrillas, and traf…
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by the FARC and planted by the Medellin Cartel. In fact, the plant had been protected by the U.S.-trained Colombian Army and planted at a joint meeting in Cali. Drug traffickers and shipments that had once been leaked to Cali were now, like…
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A key role continued to be played by the alliance with other traffickers, notably the Cali cartel. It is not disputed that in 1993. Oh, and let me go let me go back to this thing about the the photographs on the tarmac. I meant to say that …
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That was what the U.S. military was being used for. Okay. Although the new U.S. interagency presence bought the latest technique in the pursuit of targeted drug traffickers, it continued to play a key role with the Carly cartel. It is not d…
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and gave one of them a gold watch. Escobar's ability to run his drug operations while nominally in prison ended only with his death. It seemed for a while that the traffic would be dominated by more accommodating Holly Cartel, whose style w…
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suggesting strongly that the Cali cartel had put $3.5 million into the electoral campaign of the actual winner of the political process, Ernesto Samper, S-A-M-P-E-R. The revelations allowed the U.S. government to take stern measures with th…
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and by August 1995, the three major leaders of the Cali cartel had been arrested. Apparently, the Cali leaders, like Escobar before them, continued to oversee their drug trafficking from prison. According to the DEA, the drug trade in Colom…
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And the DEA appears to agree that with the effective dismantling of the two big cartels, an increasing share of the Colombian drug exports is now controlled by cartels in Mexico. Gosh, I wonder who controls them.…
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who was indicted by a federal grand jury in Miami earlier this year. Gillian, who remains at large, presumably in Venezuela, was charged with smuggling 22 tons of cocaine into the United States between 1987, which is during the Iran-Contra …
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family and needed Carriana to supply them. He organized a network that smuggled 11 metric tons of cocaine to Italy in 91 through 94. That's interesting. That's while I was there. Carriana brought together the cocaine suppliers of the Cali c…
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Fired off his memo about the Vega extortion scheme, Gonzalez also was made a target of the ensuing criminal investigation launched by Tensley, Castillo, and Gonzalez's immediate subordinate, Special Agent in Charge Ernesto Perez. Gonzalez w…
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Vega says all of the information from that meeting with Gonzalez was turned over to the FBI. He suspects no action was taken on the corrupt charges because it involved naming DEA and Customs Authority. Vega says one of those cases was broug…
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against a larger context of corruption allegations that were occurring. Vega was very involved in some of the U.S. law enforcement operations mentioned in the Kent memo. Those particular operations between 1997 and 2000 and sought to snare …
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which helped piece together a long-running DEA, ICE, and CIA operation that involved Panama, Colombia, and Mexico. Urega was a notorious narco-trafficker, according to the DEA's own records. He had been doing work for major Colombian drug o…
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That would go up to 40 feet tall. It also had 15 to 20 computers networked to servers and a small mainframe computer. The same kind of state-of-the-art setup existed in communication centers at Eureka's Ranch in Medellin, at the island reso…