His beginning, progresses and evolution.
Narcotrafficking in Colombia
Refers to the historical evolution of the production and distribution of illicit drugs psychotropic effects in Colombia, since in some cases created a new social class and greatly influenced Colombian culture. Drug trafficking has had a direct influence on the political, social and economic life of the country; also as an important player in the internal armed conflict, direct and indirect being economic support.
Since the establishment of the war on drugs, the United States and some European countries have provided the Colombian government logistical and financial support to implement plans aimed at fighting drug trafficking. The most considerable program has been the controversial “Plan Colombia”, which is also intended to combat illegal armed groups qualified by these countries as terrorists.
The underground economy of drug trafficking had been operating in Colombia since the late sixties when on the Caribbean coast especially flourished cultivation of marijuana and was given a first boom, boom marimbera call. The insatiable US market leading recipient of narcotics, then begin to drift cocaine product originating in the coca plant originally cultivated in the Andean countries.
Colombia Within this framework would play the role of turntable: alkaloid shipments arrived from the south and were redeployed by local mafias to US For the first groups of drug traffickers in the first part of the 1970s present especially in Medellin and the center of the country and soon settled in wars, would happen to a new more violent but more active and enterprising generation, which would exponents Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria, his cousin Jesus Gustavo Gaviria, the brothers Juan David, Jorge Luis and Fabio Ochoa Vásquez, Griselda Blanco and Pablo Correa Arroyave in Antioquia, Carlos Lehder Rivas in Armenia, Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha and Veronica Rivera in the center of the country, Miguel and Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, José Santacruz Londoño, Helmer "Pacho" Herrera and Henao brothers in the Valle del Cauca.With the ban, producers and traffickers formed clandestine armed cartels. During the 1980s, with increasing demand, the posters were expanded and organized criminal groups larger usually led by one or more capos as was the case of the Medellin cartel or with a Confederate leadership as happened with the Cartel Cali or the Norte del Valle Cartel.