Around the same time that Lehder was arrested so was Jung. The
Cali Cartel also had another big grosser, money laundering. Cartels do operate like a legitimate business, and at the top of each cartel is the "big man", the head honcho, the boss. A June 9 raid led to the arrest of Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, also of the
Cali Cartel's main men. In February of 1987 Ledher was taken to the United States, to be put on trail. " This wine was proven to help morphine addictions but only months after Pemberton's product was on the market, Atlanta went "dry". "What Carlos basically did is he went to the owners of the homes and told them that he was buying them out and it was time to leave the island. ("Drug War"A1) The introduction of cocaine to America in the 1970's had astonishing results. The
Cali Cartel now handled 80% of the entire world's trafficking and grossed over $7 billion a year (Fedarko No. By 1990, the
Medellin Cartel had nearly retired, and the
Cali Cartel was ready to go to work. The
Medellin Cartel now had enough resources to invest in planes and high-tech equipment to only further their business's success In 1978 an American by the name of George Jung stumbled into the picture. He made money for people, to remain on their good sides, but his greediness, elaborate island and violence caught up with him. Columbians loved and marketed cocaine because it was virtually all profit, importing it was easy, and growing coca was effortless.
