Carlos mata ballesteros y pablo escobar biography

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    Medellín Cartel

    Former Colombian drug cartel

    Criminal organization

    Early mugshot of the founder and leader of the Medellín Cartel, Pablo Escobar in 1976

    Founded byPablo Escobar †
    Jorge Ochoa Vásquez
    Juan Ochoa Vásquez †
    José Rodríguez Gacha †
    Carlos Lehder
    Founding locationMedellín, Antioquia Department, Colombia
    Years active1976–1993
    TerritoryColombia (Antioquia), Panama, California, New York City, Florida, Norman's Cay
    Membership70,000–100,000[1][2] (750,000 total employees)[3]
    Leader(s)Pablo Escobar
    Gustavo Gaviria
    Criminal activitiesDrug trafficking, arms trafficking, bombing, terrorism, assassinations, intimidation, kidnapping, extortion, money laundering
    AlliesGuadalajara Cartel (defunct)
    The Extraditables (defunct)
    La Corporación (defunct)
    Oficina de Envigado
    Los Priscos (defunct)
    Gallón Gang (defunct)
    Galician clans[4]
    Gulf Cartel
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    6 The Colombian Cartels Expand Their Reach

    Marcy, William L.. "6 The Colombian Cartels Expand Their Reach". Narcostates: Civil War, Crime, and the War on Drugs in Mexico and Central America, Boulder, USA: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2023, pp. 101-140. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781685859787-007

    Marcy, W. (2023). 6 The Colombian Cartels Expand Their Reach. In Narcostates: Civil War, Crime, and the War on Drugs in Mexico and Central America (pp. 101-140). Boulder, USA: Lynne Rienner Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781685859787-007

    Marcy, W. 2023. 6 The Colombian Cartels Expand Their Reach. Narcostates: Civil War, Crime, and the War on Drugs in Mexico and Central America. Boulder, USA: Lynne Rienner Publishers, pp. 101-140. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781685859787-007

    Marcy, William L.. "6 The Colombian Cartels Expand Their Reach" In Narcostates: Civil War, Crime, and the War on Drugs in Mexico and Central America, 101-140. Boulder, USA: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2023. https:

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    On the morning of April 5, 1988, Juan Ramón Matta Ballesteros left his palatial Tegucigalpa estate for a jog. Matta Ballesteros was wanted for murder, drug trafficking and other crimes in several countries, but in Honduras he felt safe. He regularly hosted parties for high-level officials at his home and had connections to military officers.1 He employed thousands of locals at his legitimate businesses, who sang his praises for providing medicines, building schools and donating to charitable causes.2 Legend has it that he once offered to pay the government’s mounting utländsk debt, which at least one politician appeared to take seriously.3

    Matta Ballesteros had also assisted the Honduran military and the United States in their battle against communism in the region. Using an airline he had set up, the United States shuttled supplies to the Contras, a Nicaraguan counter-revolutionary group, for Washington’s proxy war against the Sandinista government that had taken power after