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    The Medellín Cartel (Spanish: Cártel de Medellín) was a powerful and highly organized Colombian drug cartel and terrorist organization originating in...
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    the Medellín Cartel. The death of Pablo Escobar led to the dismantling of the Medellín Cartel and the rise of the Cali Cartel. While the Cali Cartel operated...
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  • Escobar's Medellín Cartel. Despite being noted for its historical affiliation with drug trafficking and other organized crime activities, Oficina de Envigado's...
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    Gustavo Gaviria (category Medellín Cartel)
    Pablo Escobar's cousin and right-hand man, Gaviria controlled the Medellín cartel's finances and trade routes. He and Escobar had collaborated in their...
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    Cali Cartel was less violent than its rival, the Medellín Cartel, more inclined toward bribery rather than violence. While the Medellín Cartel was involved...
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  • The Milenio Cartel, or Cártel de los Valencia (Valencia family Cartel), was a Mexican criminal organization based in Michoacán. It relocated to Jalisco...
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  • Colombian narcoterrorist and drug lord Pablo Escobar, leader of the Medellín Cartel and billionaire through the production and distribution of cocaine...
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    Carlos Lehder (category Medellín Cartel traffickers)
    1949) is a German Colombian former drug lord who was co-founder of the Medellín Cartel. Born to a German father and Colombian mother, he was the first high-level...
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  • John Jairo Arias Tascón (category Medellín Cartel traffickers)
    13 June 1990), known as Pinina, was a member of the Medellín Cartel. He took power in the cartel's military wing and was accused of hundreds of murders...
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    Jorge Ochoa (category Medellín Cartel traffickers)
    who was one of the founding members of the notorious Medellín Cartel in the late 1970s. The cartel's key members were Pablo Escobar, Carlos Lehder, José...
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    narcoterrorist, and politician, who was the founder and sole leader of the Medellín Cartel. Dubbed "the king of cocaine", Escobar was one of the wealthiest criminals...
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    Dandeny Muñoz Mosquera (category Medellín Cartel traffickers)
    girl", a childhood nickname), is a former sicario for the Colombian Medellín Cartel, a prominent drug trafficking enterprise in Colombia in the late 1980s...
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  • Juan David Ochoa Vásquez (category Medellín Cartel traffickers)
    trafficker and one of the founders of the Medellín Cartel, a major drug trafficking cartel based in the city of Medellín. Juan David was the elder brother of...
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    Griselda Blanco (category Medellín Cartel traffickers)
    also been claimed by some to have been part of the Medellín Cartel. She was shot dead in Medellín on September 3, 2012 at age of 69. Griselda Blanco Restrepo...
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    de los fundadores del cartel de Medellín". eltiempo.com. 25 July 2013. Retrieved 16 December 2014. "Marta Nieves Ochoa, hermana de Fabio Ochoa". Retrieved...
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    José Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha (category Medellín Cartel traffickers)
    Mexican), was a Colombian drug lord who was one of the leaders of the Medellín Cartel along with the Ochoa brothers and Pablo Escobar. At the height of his...
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    Carlos Mauro Hoyos (category Universidad de Medellín alumni)
    kidnapped and assassinated by hitmen under orders of Medellín Cartel. Hoyos was a lawyer from Medellín University, specialising in constitutional law. During...
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  • the Medellín Cartel. Hachette Digital, Inc. pp. 122–. ISBN 978-0-446-17892-1. Retrieved 10 May 2011. "Miguel Maza Márquez: cómo el archienemigo de Pablo...
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    La Catedral (redirect from Club Medellín)
    prison overlooking the city of Medellín, in Colombia. The prison was built to specifications ordered by Medellín Cartel leader Pablo Escobar, under a 1991...
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  • Los Pepes (category Cali Cartel)
    against the Medellín Cartel in 1993, which ended the same year following the death of Escobar. The group was financed by the Cali Cartel and was led by...
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  • Cali and Medellín Cartels fragmented, and it was known as one of the most powerful organizations in the illegal drug trade. The drug cartel was led by...
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    Medellín Cartel, which was responsible for up to 80 percent of the cocaine smuggled into the United States. He was the oldest son of Abel de Jesús de...
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    The Sinaloa Cartel (Spanish: Cártel de Sinaloa, CDS, after the native Sinaloa region), also known as the Guzmán-Zambada Organization, the Federation, the...
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    Jorge Ayala (category Medellín Cartel traffickers)
    Colombian criminal who is best known for his work as a hitman for Medellín Cartel leader Griselda Blanco. In 1993, Ayala was sentenced to life in prison...
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    since the 1970s, centered successively on four major drug trafficking cartels: Medellín, Cali, Norte del Valle, and North Coast, as well as several bandas...
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    Fabio Ochoa Vásquez (category Medellín Cartel traffickers)
    Vásquez (born May 2, 1957) is a former leading member of the Medellín cocaine trafficking cartel, along with his older brothers Juan David and Jorge Luis...
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    Jhon Jairo Velásquez (category Medellín Cartel)
    a Colombian hitman, who was part of the criminal structure of the Medellín Cartel until his surrender to the Colombian justice system in 1992. Within...
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    Miguel Rodríguez Orejuela (category Cali Cartel traffickers)
    Cartel supplied 80% of the United States and 90% of the Europe cocaine market. The Cali Cartel was less violent than its rival, the Medellín Cartel....
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  • member and former leader of the Medellín Cartel Roberto Urbina as Fabio Ochoa – a high-ranking member of the Medellín Cartel Diego Cataño as Juan Diego "La...
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    José Santacruz Londoño (category Cali Cartel traffickers)
    the cartel supplied 80% of the United States' cocaine supply.[citation needed] The Cali Cartel was less violent than its rival, the Medellín Cartel. While...
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