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Comparative Perspective on Organized Crime
University of Phoenix
CJA 393- Criminal Organizations
Caesar Gerrard
November 11, 2007
This paper will look at the Medellin Cartel and the Cali Cartel’s methods of operation, distribution of cocaine and the affect these cartels had on the drug trade in the United States.
The Medellin Cartel was a well organized network of drug smugglers originating in the city of Medellin in Columbia and operating through the 1970s and 1980s. The Medellin Cartel existed in permanent conflict with the Cali Cartel and from the early 1980s onward the Colombian government. The founder of the Medellin Cartel was Pablo Escobar who was reported to have earned $60 million a month at the height of the Cartel and estimated to be worth as much a $28 billion in total assets. (DEA)
Escobar, surround himself with people he trusted to run the Medellin Cartel which soon became in principal The Mafia. The leaders included Jorge Luis Ochoa, Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha and Carlos Lehder. These individuals lived quietly and in luxury, as leaders in the community. Pablo Escobar founded a newspaper, built homes for the poor and was elected to Congress in 1982. (Colombia)
In 1983 President Belisario Betancur appointed Rodrigo Lara Bonilla Minister of Justice. Minister Bonilla launched a campaign against the drug trade and the El Espectador one of Bogotá’s’ leading papers launched a series of articles about Pablo Escobar’s previous criminal behavior. In March 1984 Colombian National Police raided Tranquilandia, the largest cocaine laboratory in history. Tranquilandia had 14 independent laboratories, water and electrical supply, roads, dormitories and an airstrip. The laborites produced 3500 kilo grams of pure cocaine every month. The raid produced seizures of weapons, vehicles, airplanes and 14 tons of cocaine. (DEA)
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