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  1. Feb 25, 2007 · Miguel, the younger of the two Orejuela brothers, was more direct: He wanted Escobar, the most powerful criminal in the world, dead. The Orejuela brothers earlier had dispatched a hit squad to ...

  2. Jun 1, 2022 · MIAMI — Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela, an elderly leader of the former Cali cartel that smuggled vast amounts of cocaine from Colombia to the United States in the 1980s and 1990s, has died in a U ...

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    • Who Were The Real Gentlemen of Cali?
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    The Cali Cartelwas founded by brothers Miguel and Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela and José Santacruz Londoño in the 1970s. The Gentlemen of Cali briefly co-operated with Pablo Escobarand the Medellín Cartel, but later broke away in the 1980s and formed a four-man executive board alongside Hélmer "Pacho" Herrera. The Cali Cartel had control of New York ...

    The cartel had several "cells" that operated in the U.S. and Europe, with each specializing in a sector of the drug trade such as cocaine distribution and money laundering, the operation also included jobs for the transport and storage of drugs. Unlike the Medellín Cartel, the Cali Cartel was interested in using a more business-oriented approach to...

    In the early-to-mid-1990s, the U.S. started to put pressure on the Colombian government to stop the Cali Cartel. In 1995, a number of high-level figures in the cartel were arrested, including co-founder Santacruz on July 4. In the summer of the same year the Rodriguez Orejuela brothers were also caught and imprisoned by police, with Gilberto gettin...

  4. Feb 24, 2007 · The Colombian drug lords Miguel Rodriguez Orejuela, 63, and Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, 67, entered guilty pleas and were ushered off to federal prison for the next 30 years -- no Miami Vice-like ...

  5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Cali_CartelCali Cartel - Wikipedia

    Phanor Arizabaleta Arzayus. deceased. Victor Patiño Fomeque. released. v. t. e. The Cali Cartel ( Spanish: Cartel de Cali) was a drug cartel based in southern Colombia, around the city of Cali and the Valle del Cauca. Its founders were the brothers Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela, Miguel Rodríguez Orejuela and José Santacruz Londoño.

    • 2,500 - 6,000
    • 1977–1996
  6. Jun 2, 2022 · 2 Jun 2022. Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, the notorious former leader of Colombia’s drug trafficking Cali Cartel, has died in a US prison at the age of 83, his lawyer has said. Rodriguez Orejuela ...

  7. Apr 24, 2023 · Miguel and Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, the brothers who ran the Cali Cartel, are now the only members of their family who remain on the list. InSight Crime Analysis During the height of their operations in the 1980s and 1990s, the Cali Cartel trafficked hundreds of tons of cocaine to the United States and Europe and amassed a fortune worth an ...

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