“The Medellín Cartel (Spanish: Cártel de Medellín) was a loose coalition of Colombian drug trafficking organizations based primarily in Medellín, Colombia, that played a central role in the expansion of the international cocaine trade during the late 1970s and 1980s. Rather than a single hierarchical organization, contemporary law-enforcement assessments and subsequent scholarship describe the cartel as a network of semi-autonomous traffickers who cooperated in production, transportation, financing, and enforcement while retaining independent control over their respective operations. The network included prominent traffickers such as Pablo Escobar, Carlos Lehder, Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha, and the Ochoa brothers—Jorge Luis Ochoa Vásquez, Fabio Ochoa Vásquez, and Juan David Ochoa Vásquez—whose activities collectively shaped the structure and scale of Colombian cocaine trafficking during this period. … The Medellín network emerged in the early 1970s from Colombia’s longstanding contraband economy and expanded rapidly as cocaine replaced marijuana and other illicit goods as the dominant export commodity. …”
W – Medellín Cartel, W – Pablo Escobar
The Ringer – Andrés Escobar, an Own Goal, and Tragedy at the 1994 World Cup (Video), COLOMBIA: The Rise and Fall of Narco-Soccer
NY Times/The Athletic – The triumph and the tragedy: An oral history of USA vs. Colombia
YouTube: The player who was killed for an own-goal, Pablo Escobar: The True Story Of The Ruthless Colombian Drug Lord
Andrés Escobar
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