The Cartel
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| Originally published | June 23, 2015 |
| Authors | Don Winslow |
| Preceded by | The Power of the Dog |
| Followed by | The Border |
| Genres | Novel |
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| ID | 2382100 |
About The Cartel
"From the internationally bestselling author of the acclaimed novel The Power of the Dogcomes The Cartel, a gripping true-to-life epic, ripped from the headlines, of power, corruption, revenge and justice spanning the past decade of the Mexican American drug wars. It s 2004. . . .
Ovidio Guzmán-López: El Chapo's son extradited to the US
... " This action is the most recent step in the Justice Department s effort to attack every aspect of The Cartel s operations, " US Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement regarding the extradition...
Emma Coronel: El Chapo Guzmán's wife released from prison
... The Cartel s hitmen kidnapped, tortured and killed members of rival gangs to consolidate its power...
El Chapo sons among Sinaloa cartel members charged by US
... Joaquín " El Chapo" Guzmán, the former Sinaloa cartel leader, His three sons charged - Ovidio Guzmán López, Jesús Alfredo Guzmán Salazar and Iván Archivaldo Guzmán Sálazar - are known as the Chapitos, or little Chapos, are known as the more violent faction of The Cartel...
Mexico kidnapping: A twisted moral code explains cartel's apology
... So why would The Cartel apologise for the incident and hand over its own gunmen to the police? A letter left with The Cartel gunmen, who had been trussed up and left on the roadside, accused them of acting " under their own decision-making and lack of discipline" as well as supposedly breaking cartel rules over " protecting the lives of the innocent"...
Mexico cartel turns in own men over US kidnappings
... The letter also accuses the men of breaking The Cartel s rules over " protecting the lives of the innocent"...
Operation Desert Light: Europol take down massive cocaine 'super cartel'
... Operation Desert Light saw authorities in Spain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) work together to bring down The Cartel, Those arrested included six " high-value targets" - those most wanted by international police...
Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela: Colombian 'Chess Player' drug lord dies in US prison
... Within a year of his arrest, some six of The Cartel s seven leaders were either dead or behind bars...
Oil-producing nations stick to their plan despite Ukraine
... Energy experts believe that from The Cartel s point of view little has changed yet in terms of physical supply on the market...
Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela: Colombian 'Chess Player' drug lord dies in US prison
The former head of Colombia's once-powerful Cali drugs Cartel has died in prison in the United States .
At one point, Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela controlled the vast majority of The World 's cocaine trade and was an arch-nemesis of Pablo Escobar .
The 83-year-old was even nicknamed the Chess Player for his skill at staying One Step ahead of rivals and The Law .
But in 1995 his luck ran Out - he was arrested in Colombia and eventually extradited to the US in 2004.
The former Cartel leader was serving a 30-year federal prison sentence in North Carolina where His Family says he died of an illness on Tuesday.
At The Height of his powers, Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela ran the Cali drugs Cartel with his brother Miguel.
According to the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), the pair's Cali gang was responsible for 80% of The World 's total cocaine trade by the mid-1990s.
That monopoly was only achieved after 1993, the year Rodriguez Orejuela's long-time arch-nemesis - Pablo Escobar , the leader of the Medellin Cartel - was killed by police.
While Escobar's Cali gang had a fearsome reputation in Colombia for violence, the Rodriguez Orejuela brothers tried to portray themselves as respectable businessmen.
They later admitted to using bribes to secure friendly treatment from powerful politicians, many of whom they were close to, and were never pursued as actively by authorities as their Medellin rivals.
Rodriguez Orejuela even preferred to describe himself as an " honest drugstore magnate" - a reference to The Chain of pharmacies owned by The Family .
But in practice the Cali Cartel was ruthlessly violent. For years, its members battled it Out with their Medellin rivals for control of lucrative cocaine markets and supply routes.
The Rodriguez Orejuela brothers deployed bombs and vigilantes - and were believed to be behind the Pepes group responsible for the deaths of More Than 60 of Pablo Escobar 's relatives and associates.
Hundreds of gang members, drug dealers, and Ordinary People were killed in the bloody turf conflict which gripped Colombia throughout the 1980s as a result.
The Cali Cartel 's demise eventually began in 1995, when police arrested Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela at his luxury home in Cali, where he was reportedly crouching in a wardrobe.
Within a year of his arrest, some six of The Cartel 's seven leaders were either dead or behind bars.
His Younger Brother Miguel, arrested two months after Gilberto, is currently serving a prison sentence in the US.
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