SWNOVELXO Chapter 154: The Medellin Cartel!
Colombia. Capital of Antioquia Province. Medellin!
As one of the three musketeers of the Latin American region, their women's X00X are a size larger than those in Mexico.
But what really leaves a lasting impression is that it gave a new definition to drug trafficking organizations!
It is also tied to a man named Pablo Escobar!
He was born in 1949 in a poor family in Colombia. He grew up in a harsh environment, barely went to school because of poverty, and started stealing and trading tombstones at the age of seven or eight.
Later he began to trade cars, which brought him his first pot of gold!
However, because the city of Medellin had a natural harbor that was very suitable for smuggling, there were close to 300 drug trafficking organizations, big and small!
Such a lucrative business, Pablo Escobar, of course, wouldn't keep his hands off. However, the city was already taken, so he developed his own power in the countryside!
After making money, he didn't expand production like other drug traffickers; instead, he formed a private army and hired foreign experts. This force became the sharp sword in his hand, helping him to sweep through Colombia's big drug traffickers.
In the mid-1970s, Colombian Government Forces imported Lark armed helicopters from France to adapt to jungle warfare. Then Pablo saw them, sent three planes to take the helicopters, and they landed at his private airport. This Lark also became his private helicopter.
At that time… the later famous Cali Cartel brothers were digging tunnels to steal from bank vaults and had not yet formed "The Four Godfathers."
By the 1980s, the Medellin Cartel managed to transport seventy to eighty tons of drugs to the United States every month, bringing Pablo Escobar immense wealth, with a personal net worth of 30 billion US Dollars.
Maybe the rich don't quite understand, but he spent 1000 US Dollars a month on rubber bands to wrap his cash. With money, he planned to go legit, to launder it.
He claimed to be the "Bolivar of South America," the vanguard against the "United States."
And he declared in the media that he wouldn't take responsibility for the 25 million drug users in the United States, and he began to donate heavily, arranging the local poor into his drug production factories.
Directly providing employment for 300,000 people!
With such a large base, he aimed to go big, to make a name that would endure through history. What to do?
Run for president!
Just when he was at the height of his glory, a picture of him being arrested for drug trafficking by Medellin police in 1976 made the headlines and the front page.
This completely destroyed his presidential dream.
Pablo Escobar completely broke bad from that day onwards. He killed all the policemen who had arrested him at that time and then hanged them at the door of the police station. His election opponent, Galan, proposed a national drug ban in his speech, which led to his death on the street!
This angered the Colombian Government, which put out a bounty, but within two days, all members of the task force responsible for his case were killed. Pablo counter-offered 100 million US Dollars and got the Attorney General elected, and three days later, the man ended up dead in the wilderness!
The Colombian Government had to acknowledge his power, but the Americans couldn't let him continue his brazen ways. With help from their military advisors, the government mobilized 5000 soldiers to ride in the U.S. Military's Hercules transport planes, supported by 10 F16s from the air, and launched a surprise attack on the Medellin stronghold in March 1984.
They killed 150 people and captured more than 1000, but… Pablo Escobar escaped.
Literally fighting tooth and nail, blood for blood, a month later, he sent assassins to kill the man in charge of the operation, Colombian Attorney General Lara!
He also dispatched 60 armed men under the cover of tanks and armored vehicles to storm the justice building, creating a scene that shocked the world, kidnapping the country's top judiciary officials.
In 1987, Pablo Escobar's sworn brother, Ochoa, was captured. Five consecutive judges dared not to try him. Eventually, the Colombian Government, having no choice, released him.
In 1989 the Federal Aviation Administration (USA) used reconnaissance satellites to precisely locate the position and situation of the Medellin Cartel, and Colombia launched its largest-ever drug enforcement operation.
200 US-trained Special Forces soldiers parachuted directly, and thousands of the most elite soldiers from the National Army's 14th Brigade encircled the area, cutting off the escape routes on the road and at sea.
Finally, 50 F16 fighters formed a bombing fleet.
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But…
Pablo Escobar still escaped.
This left both the United States and Colombia without any face!
He must be the first drug trafficker to have been bombed by U.S. bombers; compared to him, Mexican drug traffickers really are like children fighting in elementary school.
Although Pablo Escobar is quite formidable, please don't glorify him; any drug trafficking organization is an enemy of humanity.
Yet as of 1990, he is still alive!
In this era, the Golden Triangle seems to have a man named Khun Sa. Hmm, sooner or later, the walls by the roadside will hang a banner welcoming Victor to guide anti-drug work in the Golden Triangle and impart the advanced Victorism anti-drug concepts from Mexico!
Inside a 30-acre luxury house in Medellin.
Situated on the hillside, the view is excellent, offering a clear sight of the opposite government building. Several armored vehicles are parked at the entrance, including one under a military green tarp that looks like a surface-to-air missile launcher, although it's unclear what model it is.
And 300 meters outside the villa, there's a sign.
Written in Spanish: "No police or dogs allowed inside!"
Arrogant, truly effing arrogant.