Meet the "Cali" cartel: They were called "gentlemens" and supplied 90 percent of the drug market in the world

Pablo Escobar, was killed on December 2, 1993, but his reputation exists to this day. But, although for a long time he has "led" the Colombian underground, he was not the only "player".

And when we say there were others, we have to mention the "Cali Cartel" group.

Rival Cali chiefs, from the city with the same name in the southwest of Medeljin, were the brothers Rodriguez Orejuela, Miguel and Gilberto.

These two cartels cooperated during the 1980s, organized armed groups that fought against kidnappers and worked on the "stabilization" of the drug market, as well as on the partition of the American market.

But they continued to be rivals. "Cali" chiefs reportedly were behind the attempted assassination of Escobar when they had hired paid killers who did not manage to kill him in 1989.

Who is the "Cali" cartel?

Except Rodriguez brothers, the cartel was founded by Jose Santacruz Londono, better known as Chepe or Don Chepe.

They were separated from Escobar and his associates in the late 1980s when Helmer Herrera joined them, also called Pacho. Then they became a four-member "executive committee" who led the cartel.

With links to paid killers, collaborators in various countries, countless spies and informants from the state, and thanks to their intelligence and intelligence network in the city of Santiago de Cali, the DEA cartel was also called "the union the most powerful criminal in history. "

At top of domination of the "Cali" cartel, they searched over 90 percent of the world's cocaine market and were directly responsible for increasing the cocaine market in Europe, controlling 90 percent of the market. By the mid-1990s, the "Cali" kingdom was worth several billion dollars.

The founders, the Rodriguez brothers and Chapo Santakruz, emerged, as they described, a higher social level by most drug distributors. Such a thing can be noticed by the nick of their group - "Gentlemen from Cali".

It is said that they were initially involved in marijuana trade. Due to the low level of benefits, the cartel decided to renew the focus on something else - cocaine.

In the early 1970s, the New York cartel engaged Pacho Herrera to create a distribution center

This was the time when the DEA was not completely in pursuit of cocaine and saw it as less critical drugs than heroin. It is believed that this "concession" of DEA allowed the "Cali" cartel to progress.

The group developed and organized several "cells" that functioned as independent, but provided reports to the manager who provided the information to Horhe Albert Rodrigez (Gilbert Rodrigez's son) and to Cali's chairpersons.

As rumored, the cartel has invested a lot of money into legitimate business ventures, as well as large companies.

Gilberto Rodrigez, also known as the "chess player", had a reputation for a businessman. The brothers Rodriguez and their partners, who later became "businessmen", had a big name in public.