Medellin Cartel and Pablo EscobarEssay Preview: Medellin Cartel and Pablo EscobarReport this essayUnlike most people think, America demanded for cocaine to be shipped in the United State. During his stay in Danbury during the early 70s because of car theft, he met George Jung, who was in prison for smuggling marijuana in the United States from Mexico. Since G. Jung had experience with flying marijuana to the US from Mexico in small aircraft, staying below radar level and landing in dry riverbeds, it inspired Lehder to use the same technique to smuggle cocaine in the United State. When both of them got out, they became business partners. This idea revolutionized the cocaine trade because before, they relied on humans to bring cocaine into the US, and only small quantities could be transported each time. Now, drug dealers could import up to several hundred kilos of cocaine at a time, without taking as a much risk when using a human. When Jung and Lehder finally gain enough money through drugs, they bought a small aircraft and hired a professional pilot. This introduced a completely new horizon of bringing drugs into the United States. Having an airplane, built connections and trust with the Colombian suppliers who would bribe the Bahamian government to let the plan go through their territory. George Jung and Carlos handled the transportation and the distribution of cocaine into the United States, and the Pablo Escobar and from time to time, the Ochoa Brothers handled the production and supply. During the late 70s when the business grew bigger and Lehder had sufficient money, he bought properties on an island called Normans Cay, located 210 miles off Florida coast. This was a strategic emplacement because it could be used as a halt for bigger planes, and then put the cocaine into smaller aircraft and then the cocaine could be transported in the Florida. As Lehder got richer, he bought more and more properties on the island, and eventually built an even built 3 300-foot landing strip protected by radar, and his own army. He eventually forced the locals to leave the island so he could have total control on it. The Bahamian officials did not do any thing about it because it is believed that they were bribed. This was the most important transportation branch in the cocaine business. Nevertheless, the suppliers, especially the MedellĬn cartel, which consisted at that time Pablo Escobar, the Ochoa brothers and Gacha, also had an important supplying branch of their own: Tranquilandia. Tranquilandia was a place where the coca plants would be processed into cocaine. Nobody exactly knows who owned Tranquilandia, but in an interview with two of the Ochoa Brothers, Tranquilandia was a lab initially owned by Rodriguez Gacha who is also known as The Mexican. It was a bridge between Bolivia, Peru and Colombia. It was also a strategic emplacement because it was in the middle of nowhere in the jungle, and the only way to get there was by plane. The estimated amount that it could produce was a metric ton every two weeks, and possibly more. As the cocaine business grew, a lot more lab developed in the area, Tranquilandia became an enormous lab and since it had its own landing strip, it was used as a connection for other labs. Being in the cocaine business would get man rich in a few flights. Lehder became a millionaire in less than three trips because in the 70s a kilo of cocaine was worth 35 000$. Smuggling cocaine in the United States was seen as an interesting opportunity for many people particularly Pablo Escobar.
Greed was a primary motivation for Pablo Escobar. While he was still a teenager, Escobar became well known in MedellД¬n for being a car thief. On the contrary, he ultimately changed to the drug business in the 70s, which was at that time a lot more successful then cars. Escobar was probably one of the first suppliers for the United States. It is the reason why he became an essential element to the business. Because he got rich in a short period, other dealers would copy him, but he already had the money to get even better each and every time he would supply. Like many people would say: “Escobar was to cocaine what Ford was to automobiles” and is still considered one of the most successful criminal careers. Many individuals consider him ruthless and very brutal, but in his town, he had an image of being a modern Robin Hood. He would accomplish plenty to help the poor. He would bring trucks to the ghettos of the towns he lived in, and handed out food to poor people. He built a soccer field and supported a soccer team. He would hire local people to make them build a structure, or make business for him. He even built schools and hired teachers to teach there. Rachel Ehrenfeld even states, “He did a lot of good Ð- much, much more than the local government Ð- than the Colombian government did.” But then again, he was very cruel. He wanted to control everything, at one point he even had a chair in the Colombian congress. But most of the time he would bribe the politicians to make them execute what he wanted. Apparently, it worked very well. He would use a very specific technique: plata o plomo. (Lead or silver).Lewis Tambs who was an ambassador at that time, and Jack Blum explain very well how the bribe process would occur:
“When I was ambassador down there, a judge would be assigned a narcotics case. Within a very, very short time, a bright, young, well-dressed lawyer would show up with, first of all, a briefcase in which he would lay a plain brown envelope on the judges desk, right? Theyd tell a man, You have a choice. You can have lead, bullet in your head, or silver, some money as a payoff. And its your call. Then the bright young lawyer would reach in his briefcase and take out a photograph album. Thered be a photo album of everybody in their lives they considered to be near and dear. Shots of their children, children coming out of their home in the morning, going to school, playing in the playground, talking to their friends. So the implication was very clear. Cooperate with us or you and your family will be dead.” Since the
c.y when the United States began its quest for world military power, the government has not only been able to get its hands on sophisticated weapons, but has also obtained a staggering number of advanced technology and military installations and the weapons are now being utilized in every direction. For now, no one but the United States government, including the secretary of state, is aware of any significant changes that could have resulted in this proliferation. Indeed, the U.S. military-industrial complex has been under the control of those involved in a process known as the Joint Special Operations Group (JSOG). These JSOGs are controlled largely by the United States, but they are under the direct control of the Federal Security Service (FS) and have been, under the direction of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), in the possession of the FBI for the last ten years. These JSOGs have been responsible for the formation of a group known as the National Advisory Council on Intelligence (NACI), which was originally an arm of the FBI. The FBI and NACI were responsible for creating the CIA’s “Operation Mongoose,” the precursor of the CIA’s COINTELPRO, which was to covertly spy on the U.S. foreign leaders and the general public to obtain incriminating information. As former NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden detailed in his book “What We Know,” there was significant influence and coordination with JSOG members, including those responsible for the establishment of the CIA’s COINTELPRO and for the covert action of covertly financing NACI’s paramilitary forces in other countries. As former NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden pointed out in her book “Innocent until proven guilty,” this was the same approach the FBI had taken in the form of “Operation Mongoose.” As well as the NSA, these JSOGs were also instrumental in creating the G7 powers structure, which, as noted, had helped control the U.S. presidency for decades, even from the White House. As for the Pentagon, these JSOGs were used by the U.S. government as contractors to run its various covert programs. These JSOGs are used by the U.S. government to train its “anti-globalization” forces, in the United Nations, to create terrorist groups, to control the markets and markets of various sectors of the United States industrial complex, to create the U.S.-funded “war on terror,” and that is to say, to build the weapons that are so highly coveted by everyone to this day. The problem with the Pentagon doctrine in fact is that it assumes that the primary focus of the U.S. government is on the strategic goals of the U.S. imperial government and the internationalists, since the military power, the money, and the technology necessary to accomplish those goals are all held by the U.S. for private profit. The world powers are a bunch of private money interests and private companies. They control the world and its governments, and they control the security and policy of all our countries by putting our people through their paces to secure the national security that our country is built upon. And the reality is that