How arrogant is the world's largest drug supplier? With 40,000 troops in hand, open confrontation with the government! Bury Colombian President's cousin Li wei alive! Let's get into today's theme "Big Drug Lord Pablo Escobar". ---- primer
Hello everyone I am Xiaode. As we all know, Mexico claims to be a paradise for drug manufacturers and traffickers, because of its geographical location close to the United States, the world's largest drug consumer market, so Mexico is almost the world's largest drug trade location. Mexican drug dealers are so arrogant that they have money and guns, some openly confront the government, and local anti-drug police are often brutalized, and even journalists who offend them are often kidnapped and murdered. But it is this group of arrogant Mexican drug dealers, in the eyes of the Colombian drug cartel that Xiaode wants to talk about today, at most it is a little brother who runs errands.
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In the late 1980s, the annual production of coca leaf in Colombia reached about 30,000 tons, ranking third in the world after "Peru" and "Bolivia", all of which belonged to a drug trafficking group called "Medellín Cartel", and the leader of this group was "Pablo Escobar" that we would call in this issue. The former director of the U.S. Drug Control Bureau once said that this cartel was the most cruel, vicious, and dangerous drug cartel he had ever seen, but also the richest drug trafficking organization. Pablo's drug cartel is tightly organized, with more than 2,500 leaders, more than 3,600 killers, and nearly 30,000 drug dealers, and he himself has established a private armed force of more than 40,000 people, and has repeatedly fought head-to-head with The Colombian government forces.
How much money does Pablo's group have? No one can say for sure, the assets on the surface are the seventh richest man in the world, and the money that is hidden is innumerable, and in 1984 Pablo told the Colombian government that as long as he agreed to the legalization of the assets he owned, Pablo was willing to repay the government $10 billion in national debt. Compared with this drug trafficking organization, the Mafia in the United States is like a schoolboy, and the Japanese underworld is the choir in the church, so how did Pablo create such a huge drug cartel?
"Rise of the Drug Lords"
Born in 1949 in a slum on the outskirts of Medellín, Colombia, Pablo suffered from poverty from an early age because Pablo's father gambled and lost the family's only farm. All this also led to Pablo's vision of making a lot of money from an early age, but how can a slum child with no background and no education succeed through normal efforts? When he grew up, Pablo had evil thoughts in his heart because of repeated setbacks, and he embarked on the road of crime, so he left the school and became a street thug, at first he just stole other people's tombstones, erased the words on them and sold them to others.
Slowly Pablo found that this industry really had no future, so he turned to stealing cars, kidnapping, smuggling, in short, he did what others dared to do, and he even left his saliva to rush upwards when others dared not do it. At just 20 years old, Pablo became a car theft maniac in Medellín, and at night the whole city of Medellín was eager to hide the car in the cellar of his family. Although Pablo was also arrested and imprisoned several times, each time Pablo was released after completing his sentence, it was more like going inside to study and learn experience, so Pablo who entered and left the prison several times could quickly gather people and start a new "business" every time.
In the United States in the 70s, cocaine this drug was discovered by addicts, just came out on the streets and alleys, but at that time the United States was very strict on drug production, so drug addicts want drugs, can only rely on imports, but the problem that followed is that cocaine wants to cross-border transportation, you have to bear a lot of risks, which also led to cocaine once in the United States expensive outrageous, this matter was known by Pablo, Pablo is like a refugee who sees fat, The saliva that remained on the ground resolutely threw himself into the industry of drug production and trafficking.
But interlaced like a mountain, you a car stealing want to sell drugs, is not a little difficult, but Pablo firmly believes that he has nothing to do, so he drove his car through strict control, transported 1 kg of cocaine to the United States and sold it, but after returning Pablo thought, this kind of self-employed people although the income is not cheap, but it is obviously not proportional to the risk, in case of being caught, it is not as good as stealing a car. So Pablo hit the idea on the police, because Pablo gave a very good salary, but also very popular, soon many police officers became Pablo's partners.
And Pablo also has his own drug trafficking team, that is, the original "Medellín Cartel Group", at first Pablo only used trucks to transport cocaine, but Pablo who saw the dividend was soon not satisfied with such a small amount of transportation, so he contacted the Mexican drug trafficking organization, using the other party's private plane to provide assistance for himself, under the painstaking management, it did not take long for Pablo to have three modes of transportation, land and air, delivering cocaine to the United States in an all-round way. At the same time, he also reformed the drug-making factories, which led to a surge in production, and because the unemployment rate in Colombia was as high as 70% at that time, more and more people joined Pablo's drug cartel.
In 1989, Pablo was already rich and invincible, and his drug cartel gradually took shape, not only had smuggling experts and armed drug transport units, all kinds of arms were used by Pablo in his own private armed forces, more and more dealers were willing to hold this thick thigh, Pablo's drug trafficking efficiency was greatly increased, and safety was also guaranteed. At its peak, Pablo earned $2.5 million in an hour, what is the concept? In order to bundle up his own money, Pablo spent more than $3,000 or more than 20,000 yuan every month just to buy a rubber band for tying money.
His open assets are more than 25 billion US dollars, was then "Fortune" magazine selected as the world's seventh richest man, in fact, Pablo's secret assets than the open face of more than dozens of times more, according to incomplete statistics he alone in Colombia has more than 800 villas, in order to make the family happy also built a private zoo, private bullring and private plane runway, etc., the more Pablo money, the larger his scale, although he can willfully buy and buy but he looks at a lot of money that can not be spent into meditation.
These black money can neither be deposited in the bank nor spent, even if he found countless teams to launder black money for himself, but still a cup of water, more than 800 mansions are still full of money, helplessly Pablo had to pack the cash and bury it in the ground, which also happened later, in 2015, a 65-year-old farmer in Colombia dug out a large denomination of dollars in a large paint bucket in his family's field, and after calling the police, the police dug out more than a dozen barrels of cash nearby. After counting, they were surprised to find that the dollars were as high as 600 million yuan, and according to the CIA's estimates, there are at least 100 more such locations.
"Arrogance leads to destruction"
With 80% of the world's drug market, so much money, and its own armed forces, everyone is a bit fluttery. Due to the weakness of the Colombian government, so every arrest operation against Pablo has not been successful, as long as the police who want to arrest Pablo will be killed in the streets within three days, Colombia's prosecutor general issued a wanted order for him, but did not expect to be arrested by him in turn issued a 100 million DOLLAR reward order, it is conceivable that the fate of the attorney general can only be another tragic death on the street.
The minister of justice at the time could not sit still and chose to criticize publicly, but the proud Pablo assassinated the minister in a car within a few days, even when the president of Colombia, cautiously expressed his intention to vigorously crack down on drugs, Pablo Roman got the news, buried the president's cousin alive, and gave the president a big dismount. He even sent fighter jets to force a helicopter of the Colombian Navy known as the "Aerial Tank" to land at his own airport, taking it for himself, and named it "Skylark" to make it his own car.
Finally intolerable, in 1984, the government organized more than 5,000 government troops and dozens of American F16 fighter jets to launch a general attack on Pablo's lair, killing 150 drug dealers and capturing more than 1,000 prisoners. But Pablo's ensuing counterattack was also extremely fierce, in less than a month, Colombia's anti-drug commander-in-chief, the new minister of justice "Ratso" was assassinated, in May more than 50 drug dealers with guns rushed into the judicial building, trying to kidnap the ministry of justice, court, police and other senior officials who held meetings inside, more than 400 military and police struggled to resist, the two sides were deadlocked, and then Pablo sent more than 300 drug dealers armed with surface-to-ground missiles to reinforce.
The fighting continued into the night, until colombia's F-FDTL troops arrived, and the drug dealers chose to leave with 5 judges and 1 police chief, leaving behind the bodies of 34 police stations and 11 senior court officials, as well as bombing the judicial building. After that, the government reluctantly arrested several of Pablo's men and tried Li Wei, but the judges who held the trial knew that these people were Pablo's men and resigned one after another, and the remaining judges were frightened and had to wear hoods to open the trial. According to incomplete statistics, between 1981 and 1991, more than 20,000 people died at the hands of Pablo in Colombia, including 157 judges, more than 3,500 anti-drug officials and police, and even one presidential candidate.
On the one hand, Pablo confronted the government, on the other hand, he spent a lot of money to build schools, hospitals, churches, and other public facilities, and hired lawyers to create money for himself to pay the people, and it was not long before many ordinary people regarded Pablo as a hero. And Pablo did all this to get into Congress and run for president! But unexpectedly, when he participated in Congress, the new attorney general risked his life to make public his identity as a drug dealer, and as soon as the news came out, public opinion was in an uproar, and Pablo's presidential dream was shattered. And Pablo's ambitions were seen by the Colombian and U.S. governments.
In 1987, in order to get rid of a displeased politician, Pablo directly blew up the politician's plane, killing 110 people and two Americans. At this point, the U.S. government finally had an excuse to send troops to capture Pablo. After the Colombian government army received full support from the U.S. army, the combat effectiveness increased greatly, Pablo's lair was destroyed one by one, and Pablo, who was hiding in Tibet, also felt tired and offered to surrender, but the prison had to be built by himself, and finally the Colombian government agreed to this request, and Pablo lived in a prison of his own construction, which contained swimming pools, beautiful women and champagne. When the U.S. government learned of this, it certainly would not allow him to live such a life.
Under constant pressure on the Colombian government, Colombia also decided to transfer Pablo to the national prison, but Pablo was reluctant to get the news and easily escaped from the prison he built, in order to capture Pablo who escaped again. The United States sent countless spies and undercover agents, and finally on December 2, 1993, Pablo was surrounded by Colombian and American troops because of his telephone interception location, and was killed on the spot. The Colombian president who heard the news said that he was finally relieved, but the news of Pablo's death was not applauded by the people, although Pablo was an unforgivable drug lord in the eyes of the government, but in the eyes of the people, he was indeed a hero who helped them.
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