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	Cali Cartel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Cali Cartel (Spanish: Cartel de Cali) was a drug cartel based in the south part of Colombia, around the city of Cali.
		During the height of Pablo Escobar's Medellín Cartel, the two engaged in constant conflict.
		Some observers consider the cartel to have fragmented somewhat in recent years, and that it does not hold as much power as it once did, due to law enforcement efforts and the emergence of smaller cartels, though many of its newer members and drug trade routes still continue to operate.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cali_cartel (236 words)

	Illegal drug trade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A mule is a lower-echelon criminal recruited by a smuggling organization to cross a border carrying drugs, or sometimes an unknowing person in whose bag or vehicle the drugs are planted, for the purpose of retrieving them elsewhere.
		Distribution and adulteration may traverse a selectively chosen group of cartel employees who purchase from a wholesaler and utilize a prominent population of mules or it may encompass a heavy chain of users who are selling to finance their own use.
		The main organized drug cartels deal primarily with the most compact (thus easy to smuggle) and profitable substances cocaine, heroin, MDMA (ecstasy), and methamphetamine, and it is these that are the primary focus of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Drug_cartel (3472 words)

	Drugstory \| Feature \| Drug Cartels
		A narco-terrorist organization is an organized group that is complicit in the activities of drug trafficking in order to further, or fund, premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets with the intention to influence a government or group of people.
		Drug trafficking has always been a profitable means for criminal organizations to further or fund their activities.
		The pot fields are financed by the Mexican drug cartels that dominate the methamphetamine trade in the adjacent Central Valley, drug enforcement officials say.
	www.drugstory.org /feature/drug_cartels_QR.asp (660 words)

	U.S. Newswire : Releases : "Defendant in Colombian Norte Valle Drug Cartel..." (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Members of the cartel used murder as an accepted practice to eliminate rival drug traffickers, buyers who failed to pay for cocaine, and cartel members whose loyalty was suspect.
		The indictment alleges that the Norte Valle Cartel bribed and corrupted Colombian legislators.
		Cartel members knowingly engaged in courses of illegal conduct designed to hinder honest government in order to protect cocaine shipments, to prevent the arrest and prosecution of Cartel members, and to block legislation in Colombia permitting the extradition of narcotics traffickers to the United States for prosecution.
	releases.usnewswire.com /GetRelease.asp?id=55399 (690 words)

	frontline: drug wars: archive: inside the cartel \| PBS
		The drug cartel, it turns out, is not monolithic, and the Colombian government may not be as dedicated to the drug war as it appears, even with the support of hundreds of millions of dollars of U.S. military aid.
		He was not just hunting the major drug traffickers, he was uncovering their networks of power and influence that reach deep into the Colombian state.
		We're the ones that are being bombarded, not the drug traffickers.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/archive/insidecartel.html (6250 words)

	DRUG CARTEL INTELLIGENCE OPERATIONS
		The drug lords are said to be spending fortunes on the latest technology to spy on and elude authorities.
		The drug traffickers can also intercept telephone calls, set up electronic surveillance inside of trucks and encrypt their cellular phone calls so that they cannot be decoded by law enforcement authorities.
		Cartel surveillence of local and state officers has been reported in the both the Southwestern and Southeastern parts of the United States, even to the point of following officers to their residences and placing tracking devices on LE vehicles.
	www.emergency.com /drugintl.htm (584 words)

	DEA - Publications - Congressional Testimony - 02/26/98
		Where the Medellin cartel was brash and publicly violent in their activities, the criminals, who ran their organization from Cali, labored behind the pretense of legitimacy, by posing as businessmen carrying out their professional obligations.
		The incarceration or death of the leaders of the Cali drug syndicate were the antecedents for the most significant change in the wholesale U.S. cocaine trade in the last two decades.
		Colombian drug traffickers continually employ a wide variety of counter-surveillance techniques and other tactics, such as staging fake drug transactions, using telephones they suspect are monitored, limited-time use of cloned cellular telephones (frequently a week or less), limited-time use of pagers (from 2 to 4 weeks), and the use of calling cards.
	www.usdoj.gov /dea/pubs/cngrtest/ct980226.htm (9512 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Latin America/Caribbean / Mexican Drug Cartel Seen Behind Journalist's Murder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Mexico's notorious Arellano Felix drug smuggling family may be behind the murder this week of a crusading journalist on the U.S. border, the Mexican attorney general said on Thursday.
		MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's notorious Arellano Felix drug smuggling family may be behind the murder this week of a crusading journalist on the U.S. border, the Mexican attorney general said on Thursday.
		The Arellano Felix cartel is one of the most powerful gangs in Mexico, controlling the flow of cocaine, marijuana and other drugs through the border cities of Tijuana and Mexicali into the United States.
	www.boston.com /news/world/latinamerica/articles/2004/06/24/mexican_drug_cartel_seen_behind_journalists_murder (503 words)

	Reputed Drug Cartel Members Nabbed at Wedding in Mexico
		Twenty-seven people allegedly linked to the powerful Juarez drug cartel were arrested over the weekend after federal officials checked the destination of three private jets and discovered they were ferrying guests to a wedding involving the cartel's top family.
		The joint operation by the Mexican army and the National Institute to Combat Drugs - the Mexican equivalent of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration - was the first major bust since an army general took charge of the federal drug agency five weeks ago.
		It highlights the increasingly active role the military is playing in the nation's drug war because of police corruption.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V116/N66/cartel.66w.html (433 words)

	The Seattle Times: Nation & World: U.S. seizes major drug-cartel leader
		The Tijuana cartel is thought to be responsible for sophisticated tunnels dug under the California-Mexico border along the U.S. cities of San Diego and Otay Mesa.
		Brother Ramón, known as the enforcer of the cartel, was shot to death in February 2002 in the seaside resort city of Mazatlán.
		The cartel also is suspected in the 2004 slaying of Francisco Ortiz Franco, a co-editor of the Zeta.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2003204482_mexdrug17.html (626 words)

	How the drug cartel thrives - Deccan Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Prepared based on interviews with doctors, drug companies, medical representatives, and chemists, the study is important for India, as our drug market is unique with 25,000 companies chasing $ 3 billion annual revenue and still remains unregulated.
		Drugs cannot be included in this common list of promotion because the person who consumes the drugs is not the one who chooses.
		Drug companies often relied on “Junk Science”, irrelevant scientific studies, to promote their drugs.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/nov212004/sh3.asp (795 words)

	Amazon.com: The Bullet or the Bribe: Taking Down Colombia's Cali Drug Cartel: Books: Ron Chepesiuk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Drug Lords: The Rise and Fall of the Cali Cartel by Ron Chepesiuk
		The rise and fall of one of Colombia's most notorious drug cartels is a story of how organized crime can function at the most sophisticated levels, yet still be taken down by the very forces it seeks to evade.
		This is a hugh contrast to the rival Medellin Cartel that is both violent and audacious.
	www.amazon.com /Bullet-Bribe-Taking-Colombias-Cartel/dp/0275977129 (1334 words)

	Drug cartel targets agents - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics - November 25, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		A band of Mexican army deserters that smuggles illicit drugs into the United States across the southern Texas border has offered bounties of up to $50,000 for the assassination of U.S. Border Patrol agents and state and local police officers, U.S. law-enforcement authorities said.
		The gang, known as the "Zetas" or the "Z's," is suspected in nearly 90 deaths of rival gang members in the past two years as part of a violent drug war to control trafficking across the Mexico-Texas border.
		They were arrested after an Oct. 29 shootout in Matamoros, Mexico, as part of an investigation by the Mexico Attorney General's Office known as "Operation Corsorio." Mexican authorities have increased their presence significantly in Tamaulipas in a law-enforcement showdown aimed at the Zetas gang.
	www.washtimes.com /national/20041125-011203-8282r.htm (646 words)

	CNN.com - Mexico arrests drug cartel suspects - Jun 7, 2004
		Two alleged leaders of one of the most notorious and violent Mexican drug cartels are in Mexican custody, U.S. law enforcement officials said Monday.
		Jorge Aureliano Felix and Efrain Perez Pazuengo, described by officials as key figures of what is known as the Arellano Felix drug cartel, or AFO, were taken into custody by Mexican authorities in Tijuana, the officials announced in Washington.
		The long-standing indictments of the cartel's alleged leaders were made public by U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft nearly one year ago.
	www.cnn.com /2004/LAW/06/07/mexico.cartel.arrests (640 words)

	The Cali Drug Cartel
		The drug cartel based in Cali, Colombia, is the largest player in the multi-billion dollar worldwide cocaine industry.
		Although their operations are highly illegal, opposed by both Colombian and US law enforcement agencies, and despite their top personnel being imprisoned or on the run, the cartel continues to run a very effective operation.
		This form of the drug is highly addictive, but the market is saturated, and crack's perception of being a "loser" drug has prevented its spread into wealthier demographics.
	www.darkside.com.au /mba/cali.html (1423 words)

	CNN.com - Colombia drug cartel suspect nabbed - Jan. 11, 2004
		Police in Panama have captured a man alleged to be a top Colombian drug lord who U.S. officials say is responsible for "huge volumes" of drugs entering the United States.
		The proposal was relayed to the government by a Roman Catholic bishop and was being studied by the government.
		With the imprisonment of several Cali drug lords in the mid-1990s, Colombia's drug trade was divided among various smaller organizations, including the Norte de Valle Cartel.
	www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/americas/01/11/drug.cartel.arrest.ap/index.html (716 words)

	The Bush Machine And The Drug Cartel
		And, in Arizona, the major fulcrum for the organizing for the legalization of drugs was an institute called the Barry Goldwater Institute.
		That created, literally, a drug epidemic, a cocaine epidemic, in neighborhoods that had never even heard of cocaine because the price was simply too outrageously high for anybody who even might have wanted to try crack cocaine to be able to even afford [it].
		Some of the drugs that are being produced through research laboratories are creating strains of cocaine and heroin that are 1,000 times more addictive than the stuff that's being distributed today.
	www.wethepeople.la /bush2.htm (2332 words)

	Drugstory \| Feature \| Editor Defied, Survived Drug Cartel
		Castanos had written a letter to a cartel leader, Ramon Arellano Felix, demanding to know why he had killed her two sons, who had been, she explained, his most loyal servants.
		It was Castanos' adult daughter who was killed, by gunmen who also wounded her baby, as she and her husband took out the trash, Blancornelas reports in his book, in an apparent violation of mafia family values that bar reprisals against uninvolved family members.
		Blancornelas went back to writing the history of the Tijuana drug cartel in blistering weekly installments, returning to the familiar hard-boiled style and gallows humor that give his work the flavor of a murder mystery.
	www.drugstory.org /feature/drug_cartel_journalist.asp (1593 words)

	frontline: drug wars: the business: colombian traffickers \| PBS
		Pablo Escobar was incredibly violent and his quest for power within the Colombian government led to a stand-off between the cartel and the government.
		During the 1980's, the cartel revolted against the government's threats to extradite the traffickers to the United States.
		Part of the downfall of the Medellin cartel was due to their main rivals in the Colombian city of Cali, the Rodriguez Orejuela brothers and Santacruz Londono.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/business/inside/colombian.html (1058 words)

	Dr. Rath Health Foundation Africa
		This human tragedy has become a multi-billion dollar market for the pharmaceutical investment business - the drug cartel - in which the return on investment is based on the continuation of the AIDS epidemic.
		In this battle for its survival the drug cartel and its political stakeholders are currently mounting their ‘last offensive’ on Africa.
		The drug cartel is being unmasked as an organization preventing natural, non-patentable health solutions in order to protect their global markets with dangerous, patented drugs and sacrificing the lives of people in genocidal proportions.
	www.dr-rath-foundation.org.za /open_letters/open_letter_2005_05_06.htm (1495 words)

	Felix Arrest Said Won't Affect Drug Cartel, Capture of Suspected Drug Lord Unlikely to Be Death Blow for ...
		Although Gulf Cartel leader Osiel Cardenas was arrested in 2003, Guzman had escaped from prison two years before, leaving President Vicente Fox with a mixed record in collaring major drug lords.
		The Arellano Felix cartel is believed to be responsible for massive drug tunnels discovered in January, the longest of which stretched 2,400 feet from a warehouse near the Tijuana airport to a warehouse in San Diego's Otay Mesa industrial district.
		Colombian drug cartels would pay shipping charges to the Arellano Felix cartel as well as pass along 50 percent of their load.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/08/17/ap/world/mainD8JI3DN80.shtml (889 words)

	WJLA - Head of Top Mexican Drug Cartel Arrested (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		A man believed to be the chief of Mexico's top drug cartel was arrested in a shopping mall, and police were checking his DNA and fingerprints to confirm his identity, the president's spokesman said Monday.
		Drug leaders often use false names and change their appearance to avoid capture.
		Rival organizations - including the Gulf cartel and the feared Arellano Felix gang - have lost their leaders to government operatives, while the Juarez cartel flourished and has been waging a bloody battle for control of drug routes all along the border.
	www.wjla.com /headlines/0705/240572.html (294 words)

	Top Stories \| FOX11AZ.com \| News for Tucson, Arizona
		On the video, one of the captives says she had been on the Gulf cartel's payroll, apparently to keep a lid on news unfavorable to the cartels.
		García and quoted law enforcement officials saying they suspected that the radio reporter was helping drug traffickers, was responsible for managing cartel-related news to keep stories from gaining national attention, and had been executed by one of the cartels.
		They told authorities he was arrested by AFI agents and turned over to a drug trafficker called La Barbie, or Edgar Valdés Villareal, said by authorities to be the right-hand man of Joaquín "Chapo" Guzman, reputed head of the Sinaloa cartel.
	www.fox11az.com /news/other/stories/KMSB-20051201-dnbp-drugcartel.2a5b8163.html (2338 words)

	USATODAY.com - Colombian police nab reputed leader of drug cartel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Police captured a reputed leader of the Norte del Valle drug cartel Tuesday, the latest arrest in a U.S.-backed effort to dismantle a gang accused of trafficking half of all cocaine sold in the United States in the 1990s.
		Dagoberto Florez, a reputed capo or leader in the cartel, was on a list of most wanted alleged cocaine kingpins sought by U.S. authorities under a court order handed down in New York in May. The U.S. government offered a $5 million reward for his capture.
		In its heyday in the late 1990s, the Norte del Valle cartel, named for the region of Colombia where the gang originated, trafficked about half of the cocaine sold in the United States.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2004-12-28-cocaine-arrest_x.htm (445 words)

	Guatemala troops tied to border drug war
		The areas are controlled by the Gulf Cartel and its Zetas, originally a group of 31 highly trained Mexican army commandos who switched from counter-drug operations to hiring themselves out as the cartel's muscle, according to U.S. government sources.
		Los Zetas, Mexican drug commandos trained in the U.S. at the School of the Americas at Fort Benning, Georgia to be the elite "special forces" of the Mexican military are now murdering police and conducting hits all over the South West US.
		Castillo has gone on the record to state that the commandos are working directly for the US government drug cartel in carrying out hits on rival drug smugglers who aren't paying their cut.
	www.infowars.com /articles/world/border_war_guatelmala_troops_tied_to_drug_war.htm (2325 words)

	USATODAY.com - Mexican drug cartels' wars move closer to U.S. border (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Walters says Mexican drug lords are calling the shots in what the United Nations estimates is a $142 billion a year business in cocaine, heroin, marijuana, and methamphetamine and other illicit drugs on America's streets.
		One consequence of the new dominance of the Mexican cartels is a spike in violence along the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border, where rival cartels are battling law enforcement authorities and one another for control of transit corridors.
		Chabat says Mexico's most powerful drug gangs are: The Gulf cartel headed by Osiel Cárdenas; the Sinaloa cartel run by Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán; the Tijuana cartel led by Ramón Arellano-Félix; and the Juárez cartel run by Vicente Carrillo.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-08-17-mexican-cartels_x.htm (1468 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Mexico > Tijuana & The Border -- U.S. reels in major drug cartel leader ...
		Mike Braun of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration characterized Arellano as “the last stronghold of a declining family cartel.” He was one of 11 alleged cartel leaders indicted in federal court in San Diego in 2003 on narcotics, racketeering and conspiracy charges.
		Their reach allegedly extended as far south as Colombia, where they are suspected of forming ties to Colombian cartels and even guerrilla armies engaged in producing and shipping vast quantities of cocaine, McNulty said.
		Ramon, long claimed by authorities to head up the cartel's band of heavily armed bodyguards and ruthless assassins, was killed in a shootout with Mexican police a month earlier.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/mexico/tijuana/20060816-1231-bn16cartel.html (589 words)

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