Gilberto José Rodríguez Orejuela (January 31, 1939 – May 31, 2022) was a Colombian drug lord and one of the leaders of the Cali Cartel . Orejuela formed the cartel with his brother, Miguel Rodríguez Orejuela , José Santacruz Londoño and Hélmer Herrera. The cartel rose to prominence in the early 1990s and was estimated to control approximately 80 and 90…
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Orejuela (born August 15, 1943) is a convicted Colombian drug lord, formerly one of the leaders of the Cali Cartel, based in the city of Cali. He is the younger brother of Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela. He married Miss Colombia 1974, Martha Lucía Echeverry. Cali CartelThe Rodríguez brothers and “Jose” formed the Cali…
José Santacruz Londoño (also known as Chepe Santacruz; October 1, 1943 – March 5, 1996) was a Colombian drug lord. Along with Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela , Miguel Rodríguez Orejuela and Hélmer Herrera Buitrago, Londoño was a leader of the Cali Cartel . Cali CartelLondoño and the Rodríguez Orejuela brothers formed the Cali Cartel in the 1970s . They were primarily involved in the marijuana trade. In…
Francisco Hélmer Herrera Buitrago, also known as “Pacho” and “H7”, (August 24, 1951 – November 6, 1998) was a Colombian drug trafficker, fourth in command in the Cali Cartel , and believed to be the son of Benjamín Herrera Zuleta. Early yearsHerrera grew up in the Colombian city of Palmira, in the Valle del Cauca department. In high school,…
Juan Carlos Ortiz Escobar (died 2002), also known as Cuchilla, was a Colombian drug dealer and high-ranking member of the Cali Cartel . Ortiz-Escobar was a cousin of former Medellin Cartel boss , cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar . After the capture of Juan Carlos Ramirez Abadia, the leader of the Norte del Valle cartel on August 7, 2007, Brazilian authorities discovered that…
Los Pepes , a name derived from the Spanish expression “Los Perseguidos por Pablo Escobar ” (“The Persecuted by Pablo Escobar”), was a paramilitary group composed of enemies of Pablo Escobar. They waged a small-scale war against the Medellín Cartel in 1993 , which ended the same year after Escobar’s death. The group was financed by the Cali Cartel and led by…
Sebastián Marroquín (born Juan Pablo Escobar Henao, February 24, 1977) is a Colombian architect, author and the son of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar. To liveAfter Pablo Escobar’s death in 1993, Juan Pablo Escobar Henao, his mother and his sister Manuela Escobar first fled to Mozambique and then traveled on a tourist visa to Argentina,…
Vito Rizzuto, also known as “Montreal’s Teflon Don”, was an Italian-Canadian crime boss who was reportedly the leader of the Sicilian Mafia in Canada. He headed the notorious Rizzuto crime family, based in Montreal, Quebec. Rizzuto was born in 1946 in Cattolica Eraclea, Sicily, Italy and emigrated with his parents to Montreal in 1954. His…
Convicted mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro was arrested on Monday in Sicily’s capital, Palermo. He was Italy’s most wanted fugitive for almost thirty years. Convicted mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro has been captured after 30 years on the run, the Associated Press reports. The 60-year-old Denaro was arrested on Monday in the Sicilian capital Palermo….
A drive-by shooting on a Laval highway just north of Montreal injured Leonardo Rizzuto, the son of the late Vito Rizzuto, who once led the Mafia in Montreal. In a drive-by shooting on a highway in Laval, just north of Montreal, Leonardo Rizzuto – son of the late Vito Rizzuto, who once led the Montreal…