Top 5 Notorious drug kingpins around the world
Top 5 dangerous drug lords
The illegal drug trade or drug trafficking is a global black market dedicated to the cultivation, distribution and sale of prohibited drugs. Most jurisdictions prohibit trade, except under license, of many types of drugs through the use of drug prohibition laws.
Consumption of illegal drugs is widespread globally and it remains very difficult for local authorities to thwart its popularity.
According to the international Crisis Group, the most violent regions in Central America, particularly along the Guatemala-Honduras border, are highly correlated with an abundance of drug trafficking activity.
The illegal drug trade in columbia has, since the 1970s, centered successively on four major drug trafficking cartels.
In the mid 1970s, marijuana traffickers in Columbia began exporting small quantities of cocaine to the United States hidden in suitcases. At that point, cocaine could be processed for $1500/kilo in jungle labs and could be sold on the streets of america for as much as $50,000/kilo.
Listed below are 5 notorious, dangerous drug lords around different parts of the world.
1. Pablo Escobar
Paublo Emilio Escobar Gaviria, born in 1 December 1949 and died in 2 December 1993 at the age of 44, was a Colombian drug lord and narcoterrorist who was the founder and sole leader of the Medellin Cartel. He's been the most powerful drug trafficker in the world.
In 1976, Escobar founded the Medellin Cartel, which distributed powder cocaine, and established the first smuggling routes into the United States. Escobar's infiltration into the U.S created exponential demand for cocaine and by the 1980s it was estimated Escobar led monthly shipments of 70 to 80 tones of cocaine into the country from Colombia.
As a result, he quickly became one of the richest people in the world. But conistently battled rival cartels domestically and abroad, leading to massacres and the murders of police officers, judges, locals, and prominant politicians, making Colombia the murder capital of the world.
In the 1982 Colombian parlimentary election Escobar was elected as an alternate member of the Chamber of Representatives as part of the Liberal Alternative movement.
Escobar's legacy remains controversial; while many denounce the heinous nature of his crime, he was seen as a "Robin Hood" like figure of many in Colombia, as he provided many amenities to the poor. Additonally, his private estate has been transformed into a theme park.
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| Members of search bloc celebrates over Escobar's body |
Sixteen months after his escape from La Catedral, Pablo Escobar died in a shootout by bullet in his head on 2 December 1993.
His killing was mourned and his funeral attended by over 25000 people.
2. Joaquin Guzman
Joaquin Archivaldo Guzman Loera commonly known as "El Chapo" because of his 168 cm structure is a Mexican Former drug lord and a former leader within the Sinaloa Cartel, an international crime syndicate. He is considered to have been one of the most powerful drug traffickers in the world.
He made Forbes magazine's "self-made" billionaires list, sparking outrage in Mexico, CNN reported March 14. The magazine ranked him a wanted criminal in Mexico, at number 701 on thier annual list net worth was estimated at $1 billion.
Mexican officials are upset that Forbes included his name on the list and comparing the deplorable activity of a criminal wanted in Mexico and abroad with that of honest businessmen, said Mexican Attorney General Eduardo Medina Mora.
Guzman oversaw operations whereby mass cocaine, methamphetamine, marijuana, and heroin were produced, smuggled into and distributed throughout the United States and Europe, the world's largest users. He achieved this by pioneering the use of distribution cells and long-range tunnels near borders, which enabled him to export more drugs to the United States than any other trafficker in history
Guzman's leadership of the cartel also brought immense wealth and power.
In 2019, he was found guilty of a number of criminal charges related to his leadership of the Sinaloa Cartel, was sentenced to life imprisonment and incarcerated in ADX Florence, Colorado, US.
3. Dawood Ibrahim
D-Company is a name coined by the Indian media for the Mumbai underworld organized criminal syndicate founded and controlled by Dawood Ibrahim. D-Company have been linked to the financing of the Bollywood film industry. A number of Bollywood studios and films were financed by D-Company in the 1980s - 1990s. Ibrahim was linked to a number of celebrities during that time.
He was designed as a global terrorist in 2003 by india and the United States, with a reward of US$25 million on his head for his believed role in the 1993 Bombay Bombings.
He hasn't lived in Mumbai since 1993 when 13 bombs he helped plant blew swathes of it to the ground, and killed 257 people. Then, he fled to neighbouring Pakistan. According to most sources, he's still there.
He has been previously reported to be living in Karachi, Pakistan, Though the Government of Pakistan Denies it.
He was named number three on "The World's 10 Most Wanted Fugitives" by the U.S Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
In 2006, Ibrahim's daughter, Mahrukn Ibrahim, married junaid Miandad the son of Pakistani Cricketer Javed Miandad. In 2011, his daughter Mehreen, married Ayub, a Pakistani - American. Several of his family members, including his brother, Iqbal, lives in Mumbai.
4. Marcola
Marcola is currently serving 234 years in prison with a net worth of $90 million. He is considered to be one of the most wanted drug traffickers in Brazil and in all of Latin America.
In May 2006, Marcola obtained recordings of the hearing, which planned to move him and 700 prisoners to a maximum-security prison. Immediately Marcola contacted PCC leaders through cellphones and organized strategic attacks on Brazilian police, which led to the PCC orchestrating the Sao Paulo violence outbreak, resulting in the deaths of over 150 people. The violence led to Marcola's transfer to the Maurico Henrique Guimaraes Pereira Penitentiary, a maximum security prison in Presidente Venceslau. Former President of Brazil Lula da Silva condemned the violence as Narco-terrorism.
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| Sao Paulo violence outbreak |
Marcola is currently serving his sentence at the Brazilia Federal Penitentiary, which was inaugrated in 2018 to isolate the country's most dangerous inmates.
5. Griselda Blanco
Griselda Blanco Restrepo was born in 15 February, 1943 and died in 3 September, 2012. She's known as the Black Widow, the cocaine Godmother and the Queen of Narco-trafficking, was a Colombian drug lord of the Medellin cartel and a pioneer in the Miami based cocaine drug trade and underworld during the 1980s through the early 2000s.
It has been estimated that she was responsible for up to 200 murders while transporting cocaine from Colombia to New York, Miami and Southern California.
She was shot killed on September 3, 2012, at the age of 69.
She became the first ever billionaire female criminal, ruling her multi billion dollar drub trafficking empire with an iron fist, and becoming one of the deadliest women of all time.
On Febraury 18, 1985, she was arrested by cops in her home and held with full bail. After they sent her to prison, she tried to escape, Blanco was sentenced to more than a decade in jail. While in prison, she continues to effectively run her cocaine business with the help of her son Michael Blanco.
In 2004, Blanco was released from prison and deported to Medellin, Colombia. Before her death in 2012, the last sighting of Blanco was in May 2007 at the Bogota Airport.
On the night of September 3, 2012, Blanco died after being shot twice; once in the head and once in the shoulder by a motorcyclist in Medellin, Colombia.
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