6. The Medellin Cartel
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Until his showdown with DEA agents in 1993, Pablo Escobar was the leader of one of the most ruthless cartels in Colombian history. The Medellin Cartel was an organized gang of narcotics suppliers and smugglers that originated in Medellin, Colombia. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the Medellin Cartel headquartered in Bolivia, became known as perhaps the most successful cocaine smuggling operation in history, at the time. That earned the Colombian Cartel a projected 50-100 billion dollars a year at the pinnacle of its narcotic smuggling activities. By early 1990s, the Medellin Cartel was dismantled by the numerous enemies it had garnered itself from previous dealings. A combination of the Cali Cartel and the United States Government is believed to have driven the Medellin Cartel to its extinction.
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