How Did Carlo Escobar Revolutionized The Cocaine Trade

Unlike most people think, America demanded for cocaine to be shipped in the United State. During his stay in Danbury during the early 70's because of car theft, he met George Jung, who was in prison for smuggling marijuana in the United States from Mexico. Since G. Jung had experience with flying marijuana to the US from Mexico in small aircraft, staying below radar level and landing in dry riverbeds, it inspired Lehder to use the same technique to smuggle cocaine in the United State. When both of them got out, they became business partners. This idea revolutionized the cocaine trade because before, they relied on humans to bring cocaine into the US, and only small quantities could be transported each time. Now, drug dealers could import up to several hundred kilos of cocaine at a time, without taking as a much risk
He was the first to supply cocaine because Carlos Lehder, pioneer of cocaine traffic, knew him. He used techniques that had never been used before. He was part of Medellìn cartel; the richest cartel in the 70's and 80's who had a company-like organization. However, because of being too ambitious, he attracted problems towards him and that marked the end of his drug empire. It is estimated that his cartel wealth was over $28 billion. Today, drugs are everywhere, and not everybody knows that there is a huge organization behind it. Most of the people would think that the drugs are directly supplied to the distributor, and the distributor sells it right away. In addition, the drug business could get a man rich very quickly but these days it is getting harder and harder to do big business with drugs. Currently, the United States is spending over 20 billion dollars against drugs, but it does not seem to help anything. Many government officials said that the DEA could have stopped the cocaine business when it started, but nobody really knows why they did not try to stop