Drug Cartel Facts:
1. From the year 2000 to 2012, the U.S. government had an unofficial arrangement with the Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel that allowed the organization to smuggle billions of dollars of drugs into USA, while Sinaloa provided information on rival cartels.
2. Arnold Rothstein, a kingpin of the Jewish mafia who was behind the Black Sox scandal, refused to identify his killer to the police.
3. In 2011, the Los Zetas drug cartel kidnapped hundreds of innocent bus passengers in Mexico and made them fight to death like gladiators. The winners were then sent on suicide missions.
4. During the prohibition era in the 1930’s, a young Mexican kid smuggled whiskey from Mexico to Texas. That kid grew up to be Juan Guerra, the founder of The Gulf Cartel, one of the oldest and most powerful cartels in Mexico’s history.
5. In Mexico, drug cartels have been capturing technicians and making them build their own private cell phone network.
6. Gregory Scarpa, Sr. of the Colombo crime family despised African-Americans so much, that he refused to get blood from a blood bank following an ulcer. He ended up contracting HIV from another Italian mobster who donated his blood to Scarpa.
7. In 2012, Knights Templar Cartel, a Mexican drug cartel personally welcomed the Pope to Mexico, and pledged not to cause any violence during his visit.
8. Iran contracted a Mexican drug cartel to assassinate a Saudi diplomat while in Washington, D.C. The plot was only foiled because the assassin was an informant for the DEA in the War on Drugs.
9. In the 80s, the Medellin Cartel had a complex in the jungles of Colombia called Tranquilandia. It had 19 cocaine laboratories, 8 airstrips, running water, its own electricity system and bedrooms for the workers . When it was raided, 13.8 tons of cocaine was found and destroyed.
10. 40-67% of the marijuana consumed in the U.S. is imported by Mexican cartels, which accounts for only 15-26% of the cartels’ drug-related profits (the rest comes from cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine, in addition to non-narcotic income from activities like kidnapping and extortion).
you will see some more facts about drugs in my next post.
1. From the year 2000 to 2012, the U.S. government had an unofficial arrangement with the Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel that allowed the organization to smuggle billions of dollars of drugs into USA, while Sinaloa provided information on rival cartels.
2. Arnold Rothstein, a kingpin of the Jewish mafia who was behind the Black Sox scandal, refused to identify his killer to the police.
3. In 2011, the Los Zetas drug cartel kidnapped hundreds of innocent bus passengers in Mexico and made them fight to death like gladiators. The winners were then sent on suicide missions.
4. During the prohibition era in the 1930’s, a young Mexican kid smuggled whiskey from Mexico to Texas. That kid grew up to be Juan Guerra, the founder of The Gulf Cartel, one of the oldest and most powerful cartels in Mexico’s history.
5. In Mexico, drug cartels have been capturing technicians and making them build their own private cell phone network.
6. Gregory Scarpa, Sr. of the Colombo crime family despised African-Americans so much, that he refused to get blood from a blood bank following an ulcer. He ended up contracting HIV from another Italian mobster who donated his blood to Scarpa.
7. In 2012, Knights Templar Cartel, a Mexican drug cartel personally welcomed the Pope to Mexico, and pledged not to cause any violence during his visit.
8. Iran contracted a Mexican drug cartel to assassinate a Saudi diplomat while in Washington, D.C. The plot was only foiled because the assassin was an informant for the DEA in the War on Drugs.
9. In the 80s, the Medellin Cartel had a complex in the jungles of Colombia called Tranquilandia. It had 19 cocaine laboratories, 8 airstrips, running water, its own electricity system and bedrooms for the workers . When it was raided, 13.8 tons of cocaine was found and destroyed.
10. 40-67% of the marijuana consumed in the U.S. is imported by Mexican cartels, which accounts for only 15-26% of the cartels’ drug-related profits (the rest comes from cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine, in addition to non-narcotic income from activities like kidnapping and extortion).
you will see some more facts about drugs in my next post.
