3.Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela: leader of the Cali cartel, was born in Mariquita, Tolima, January 30, 1939 and was extradited to the United States in 2002.
For 20 years Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela consolidated leadership that everyone in the Cali cartel had learned to recognize and to respect. His was not a leadership imposed by blood and fire, nor was a hierarchical leadership exercised from the top of a pyramid. Theirs was, if you will, the quiet strength of a man unlike Pablo Escobar in Medellin cartel had him more respect than fear.
His criminal career dates back to 1969, when he was accused of kidnapping two foreigners and, from there, begin to emerge, one after one, hundreds of proceedings against him for the crime of drug trafficking. Then, with Miguel, his brother Jose Santacruz Londoño and had formed a dangerous criminal gang known as "Los Chemas". They engaged in land assault pitateria trucks to hurtarles the goods, kidnapping and extortion. Then they ventured into the business of drug trafficking, importing coca paste from Peru and Bolivia.
THE MOST IMPORTANT RECOGNIZED DRUG TRAFFICKERS, ETC, GIVE COLOMBIA
1. Paul Escobar: it is one of those of more renown for his great public exhibition. Nevertheless, few ones know which was his total fortune. On deceased December 2, 1993, Paul Escobar managed to accumulate some u$s30.000 million. Leader of the cártel of Medellin, organized and financed an assassins' extensive network and with his terrorist acts by means of the employment of car bombs in the principal cities, destabilized Colombia and turned into the criminal most looked of the world at the beginning of the year 1990.
Pablo Escobar, born on December 1, 1949, in Antioquia, Colombia, entered the cocaine trade in the early 1970s. He collaborated with other criminals to form the Medellin Cartel and eventually controlled over 80% of the cocaine shipped to the U.S. He earned popularity by sponsoring charity projects and soccer clubs, but later terror campaigns that resulted in the murder of thousands turned public opinion against him.
2.José Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha Pacho alias “el mexicano”: Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha Pacho, 14 May 1947- Tolu, December 15, 1989, alias El Mexicano, was a member of the Colombian Medellin cartel drug trafficker. The Colombian media saw it as the leader of the military wing of the organization and its "minister of war", but actually it was a drug dealer with its own military force which was to serve their own interests and personal wars. It has been known, years after his death, his importance was not limited to areas of illicit drug trafficking, but also felt in the commercial, political, social sphere and public order. Rodriguez Gacha was known by the alias "El Mexicano" because of his fascination with the Mexican nation and its culture.