Drug Lords: The Rise and Fall of the Cali Cartel

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For 20 years, the Cali drug cartel, a vast criminal conspiracy, pumped thousands of tons of cocaine into the United States, laundered billions of dollars in profits and was responsible for endemic political corruption and an untold number of murders and assassinations. It ultimately controlled 70 percent of the world’s cocaine market, flooding towns and cities with the addictive white powder dubbed the “champagne of drugs.”

Through organized violence, terrorist strategies, intimidation and bribery, the cartel became a major threat to Colombia’s fragile stability. It also brought an unprecedented degree of strategy and ...

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Overview

For 20 years, the Cali drug cartel, a vast criminal conspiracy, pumped thousands of tons of cocaine into the United States, laundered billions of dollars in profits and was responsible for endemic political corruption and an untold number of murders and assassinations. It ultimately controlled 70 percent of the world’s cocaine market, flooding towns and cities with the addictive white powder dubbed the “champagne of drugs.”

Through organized violence, terrorist strategies, intimidation and bribery, the cartel became a major threat to Colombia’s fragile stability. It also brought an unprecedented degree of strategy and planning to the drugs trade. It would take more than two decades and a global effort to bring it down.

In this first-ever account of the cartel’s rise and fall, author Ron Chepesiuk provides a compelling insight into the history of international drug trafficking, organized crime and US drug policy. He draws vivid pictures of the gang’s founders—Jose “the Chess Player” Londono and brothers Miguel and Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela—and reveals how they built their empire, carving up the massive US market with their rival Medellin Cartel: New York going to Cali, Miami to Medellin.

Unlike Medellin, headed by the vicious Pablo Escobar, the men from Cali kept their complex operation in the shadows. It grew quickly and came to operate like a multinational corporation. In time, they became too big to share their spoils and fought an indescribably bloody war with the Medellin mob, a war they ultimately won.

Written with the pace and vividness of a thriller, Drug Lords also illustrates the similarities between global traffickers and international terrorists and compares the current war on terror with the war on drugs.

Editorial Reviews

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"The most detailed study of the murky world of narcotics traffickers this reviewer has seen. Highly recommended."
From The Critics
"If you liked Mark Bowden's Killing Pablo, you'll love this. Remarkable."

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781903854389
  • Publisher: Milo Books
  • Publication date: 4/1/2005
  • Pages: 326
  • Product dimensions: 5.10 (w) x 7.80 (h) x 0.90 (d)

Meet the Author

Ron Chepesiuk is the author of 18 books, including "Hard Target: The US's War with International Drug Trafficking, 1982-1997" and "War on Drugs: An International Encyclopedia." He is a Fulbright Scholar and teached writing in the journalism program for UCLA's Extension Division.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 20, 2008

    I loved this book

    My brother bought this book and I picked it up and could not put it down. I live in El Paso, TX which borders Juarez, Chihuahua Mexico and I recognized some of the characters because they are always on the news here. In Juarez there is a huge war and they kill about 9 people average a day, an unfortunately its not just a war in Mexico, its a war to see who controls the US market, so it also affects us Americans.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 26, 2008

    Great Source of information!!

    Love how he wrote the book as a novel

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 29, 2007

    Impressive

    What is it with the DEA and their love of the Colombians. I have never been impressed by th criminal abilities of the Colombians, whether they are from Medillin or Cali. The ones from Medillin just got lucky and the ones from Cali were in the shadows who were organizational geniuses, but relied too much on familial politics (like most Latino crime organization do.) There was not enough information about the explosion of crack cocaine and how they changed everything in crime and also they didn't discuss how the Cali Cartel became so sophisticated.

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