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The Cali Cartel (Spanish: Cartel de Cali) was a drug cartel based in southern Colombia, around the city of Cali and the Valle del Cauca. Its founders were the brothers Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela, Miguel Rodríguez Orejuela and José Santacruz Londoño.
Jun 1, 2022 · MIAMI — Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela, an elderly leader of the former Cali cartel that smuggled vast amounts of cocaine from Colombia to the United States in the 1980s and 1990s, has died in...
The former head of Colombia's once-powerful Cali drugs cartel has died in prison in the United States. At one point, Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela controlled the vast majority of the world's...
In the early 1990s, after the fall of the Medellin Cartel, the Cali Cartel emerged as the leading cocaine trafficking organization in the world. [3] They were initially primarily involved in marijuana, and branched out into cocaine during the 1980s.
Jun 2, 2022 · Known as “the Chess Player,” he ran the Cali cartel’s cocaine empire with a businesslike approach until his extradition to the United States. He died in prison.
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Orejuela (born August 15, 1943) [1][2] is a convicted Colombian drug lord, formerly one of the leaders of the Cali Cartel, based in the city of Cali. He is the younger brother of Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela.
Jun 30, 2022 · The cartel shipped cocaine in planks, lead ingots, frozen fish, ceramic tiles, coffee, whatever they could; and the money that poured in, $7bn a year at the peak, was laundered through property,...
Jun 2, 2022 · Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, the notorious former leader of Colombia’s drug trafficking Cali Cartel, has died in a US prison at the age of 83, his lawyer has said. Rodriguez Orejuela was...
Jun 2, 2022 · A former leader of Colombia's once-powerful Cali drug cartel has died in prison in the US, his family has said. Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, 83, died on Tuesday while serving a 30-year drug trafficking sentence.
Jun 2, 2022 · Former Head of Colombia’s Cali Cartel Dies in U.S. Prison. Drug gang run by Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela, who died at age 83 of undisclosed causes, once sent about 80% of the cocaine that ...
