8. They Took Down Avianca Airlines Flight 203
Via thefactninja.com
Participating in terrorism is nothing new to the Colombian Cartel. Even when it comes to taking hundreds of innocent lives. November 17, 1989, Avianca Airlines Flight 203 en route to Alfonso Bonilla Aragon International Airport in California departed. At a quarter past 7:00 a.m. that morning, the flight took off as planned from El Dorado International Airport in Bogota, Colombia. After being in the air only five minutes, the Boeing 727 exploded traveling nearly 500 mph at 13,000 ft. The aircraft crashed to the ground killing over one-hundred people. Pablo Escobar and his Colombian Cartel were to blame for the heinous act of terrorism, as shouts for Escobar’s capture were heard all around the world.
7. All The Kidnapping, Executions, And Murder
Via businessinsider.com
Cartels are experts at getting what they want. Abducting innocent people and using them as bargaining chips isn’t above the Colombian Cartel. In 1991, a journalist named Diana Turbay was kidnapped by the Medellin Cartel and was tragically killed when the Colombian police botched an attempt to save her life. Turbay was fooled into a fake meeting with a cartel leader and was taken hostage by the gang. The Colombian Cartel’s plan to kidnap the journalist stemmed from an effort to abduct as many government officials and journalists as possible to prevent the passing of an extradition bill. The Colombian Legislature endorsed a bill that would allow Pablo Escobar and his band of guerrillas to be prosecuted in United States courts.
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