#Medellín Cartel

Via Lex Fridman YouTube Roger Reaves grew up on a poor farm in Georgia, who went from making moonshine to becoming one of the most prolific drug smugglers of all-time. Reaves became a drug-running pilot for one of the biggest cartels in the world. Reaves explained his experience as being a

Jhon Jairo Velasquez Vasquez, one of modern history’s most dangerous men, has died. Velasquez, known as “Popeye,” was Pablo Escobar’s top assassin who confessed that he personally killed about 300 people and ordered hits on 3,000 more in the 1980s. Popeye, who was the infamous hitman for Pablo

Source: Atlas Obscura Pablo Escobar, the son of a farmer and school teacher, led the Medellín drug cartel, which supplied an estimated 80 percent of the cocaine smuggled into the United States. Known as the wealthiest criminal in history, Escobar had an estimated known net worth of $25 to 30

Author: Sopan Deb / Source: New York Times From left, Joaquín Cosío, Diego Luna and Horacio Garcia Rojas in the premiere of “Narcos: Mexico.” Carlos Somonte/Netflix “I’m going to tell you a story. But I’ll be honest. It doesn’t have a happy ending.” That’s the first line of narration from the