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Jaime Omar García was born on July 8, 1986 in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico as the second of three children to civil engineer Jaime García, Sr. and Gloria Rodríguez Flores. García was raised between the border of Reynosa, Mexico and McAllen, Texas. He attended Sharyland High School in Mission, Texas.…
El Chapo was born as Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera. His birthdate was either December 25, 1954 or April 4, 1957 (“Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman Loera” 2). He was born to Emilio Guzmán Bustillos and María Consuelo Loera Pérez in Badiraguato, Mexico (“Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman Fast Facts” 1). Due to his childhood filled with poverty and his abusive father, who was also in the drug trade, he was kicked out of his house by the time he reached his teens. With no formal education beyond the third grade, he started following in his father’s footsteps by growing marijuana for small amounts of money in his backyard.…
In 1806 Benito Juarez was born on March 18th.. Benito was born in the small town of San Poblo, Guelatao. When Benito was 3 years old both of his parents died. Sadly him and is two older sisters had to move into their grandparents house, but unfortunately they died a few years later. By the time Benito’s sisters were old…
Joaquin’s childhood involved family poverty, He had an abusive father who was a man that was very violent and was involved in the drug trade. Joaquin was kicked out of his home and had to make a life of his own, he didn’t have much schooling. He found himself doing what his father was doing, he was growing marijuana for a very small amount of money. The Sinaloa Cartel transported heroin, marijuana, and methamphetamine into U.S and other countries. Where? “They conveyed these drugs in the western end of Mexico where the narcotics moved north to coastal cities and then into the United States”. Sinaloa’s clever trafficking methods most highly a set of air-conditioned tunnels that is under the Mexican-U.S border. How? “They covered it inside fire extinguishers, Cans that were labeled Chili peppers”. The cartel affected five continents which made it the biggest operation in the world. In 2009 The Sinaloa Cartel was reported by pulling in 3 billion…
But Emilio would spend the money on liquor and women. Soon El Chapo got tired and figured how to grow and sell drugs (extradite el chapo guzman). El Chapo learned his ways to grow and sell the drugs he harvested so he left his dad and started with other. He joined the cartel with miguel arellano felix . After the Miguel Felix Gallardo broke up the power house cartel Guadalajara cartel into different cartels. El Chapo and Zambada got the Sinaloa cartel. According to the article of “El Chapo:the most powerful drug lord in history” it states “supervising logistics for another drug kingpin, Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, founder of the Guadalajara cartel. Guzmán kept a low profile, but when his boss was eventually arrested for the 1985 murder of an American Drug Enforcement Agency agent, he quickly emerged as one of the new faces of the Mexican drug world” (Geoffrey). In other words when Miguel Gallardo got arrested el chapo rose the ranks with Zambada as the new leaders of the sinaloa cartel. This is when the United States drug problem skyrocketed. Which is why he is wanted in Chicago, Miami, El Paso and San Diego, and two in New York. Maybe even New Hampshire” (Don’t Blow el Chapo’s extradition…
Pablo Escobar is maybe one of the biggest players in organized crime ever. Pablo Escobar's savage mind set is what set him different from other drug traffickers in Colombia. If he caught you stealing from him, he would have your hands caught off. Because of so many people after him, he decided to join forces with other gangs and big dogs in the drug trade. This was the formation of the Medellin Cartel. The cartel had great success. They had cocaine running through Colombia, Bolivia, Peru, Honduras, the United States , as well as Canada and Europe. At their peak, they supported the world's cocaine. They contributed to at least 84% of cocaine throughout the world. They were bringing in $420,000,000 a week. They were the ones to bring cocaine…
Finally, one of the main reasons Joaquín Guzman is known is because of his extremely long history of drug trafficking. The Sinaloa took control of the cocaine trade extending from South America to the United States, under Guzman’s control. Sinaloa Cartel has also trafficked heroin, marijuana and methamphetamine into the United States. Eventually, the cartel’s ghastly behavior touched five continents and grew to be the biggest drug operation in the world. With a net worth of nearly $1 billion dollars and being the 10th richest man in Mexico was all because of his infamous drug…
He grew up in a wealthy family around a bunch of poor people in Cuba. Was a troublemaker and got in trouble at his school Colegio Dolores…
Crime in Mexico has existed for years now, but it became more noticeable during the time of Pablo Escobar. At one point in history he was the main transporter for Cocaine coming directly from Colombia. As enforcement agencies kicked up their efforts to stop this drug trade, especially in Florida, Escobar formed a partnership with Mexico-based traffickers to transport their drugs through Mexico and into the United States. Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo is known as “The Godfather” of the Cartels seeing how he established the Guadalajara Cartel, which is recognized as the first Mexican cartel and were the first to link up with Escobar to transport cocaine through Mexico. It is said that once Mexico became involved in the drug trade with Colombia it opened a door for Mexico to become independent and they began to branch out on their own. After a while the Guadalajara Cartel took a heavy blow when one of its members was arrested, so it was decided to split it up into three separate groups. As a result the Tijuana, Juarez, Gulf, and Sinaloa Cartel came to exist, after that it was a domino effect and the fight for…
Pablo Escobar was born December 1, 1949 in Rionegro, Colombia and died December 2, 1993 in Medellin, Columbia. Pablo Escobar was a member of Colombia’s working poor. Pablo Escobar father Abel de Jesus Escobar Echeverri was a farmer and his mother Hermilda de los Dolores Gaviria Berrío was a school teacher. Escobar married Maria Victoria Henao Vallejo who was only fifteen at the time and had two children named Juan Pablo Escobar Henao and Manuela Escobar Henao. Pablo Escobar is said to have joined criminal activities because he was poor. Pablo Escobar started doing criminal activities at a young age. Pablo Escobar would steal tombstones from the forgotten graves, sand them down and sell them to Panamanian Smugglers. Then later he started stealing…
Coca is a leafed plant that grows in the eastern slopes of the Andes. Cocaine is the world's most powerful stimulant made naturally. This plant has been used be Indians for at least 5000 years. Traditionally, the leaves of the coca plant have been chewed for social, mystical, medicinal and religious purposes. Columbia is the lead producer of cocaine they supply eighty percent of the world's cocaine (Coca and cocaine).…
In the beginning his drug use was affordable because he was an amateur drug user. It was easy for him to pay for them small amount of drugs he needed to get high. Once his body began to build a tolerance to the drugs, he needed to spend more, and his paycheck was no longer enough to cover the cost of his drug addiction. This young man went from weed use to hard core drugs like cocaine. I am far from an expert on the cost of drugs, but there is a large price difference between the cost of marijuana and cocaine. As a result he turned to drug dealing to continue funding his addiction because his regular paycheck was no longer sufficient. It was also an easy transition from drug user to dealer because he already had a network of friends who…
Once she understood the business Blanco and her second husband to decide to move to New York, to live the American Dream. By 1970 Blanco and Bravo became the power couple. It is estimated that within months of being in the United States they was already millionaires with Colombia cocaine. They even control the mafia families, blacks, and other families was running a drug organization. Blanco and Bravo operations was so successful that they was moving a ton of cocaine every two to three weeks. To understand how powerful Blanco was becoming, she started off with $26,000 in her savings account and within a year she reached the dollar amount of 10 million…
Pablo business has been in operation for 22 years. It has taken him that long to get his business where he wants it. Now he must turn it over to someone and Pablo does not want his life’s work to go down the drain. Pablo also knows his business inside and out. He is probably capable of doing any job that there is in his company. It would be hard fix Pablo to turn over his company to an untrained person.…