Pablo Escobar is the most famous drug lord in history. The richest drug lords in history

Although law enforcement agencies of all countries of the world are constantly fighting criminals, there are individuals who create entire empires ready to challenge the state. Especially in this field, drug dealers have succeeded, having made billions of dollars, who can afford to maintain an entire army of well-equipped mercenaries. Meet the ten most famous drug lords, whose finest hour came in the 80s and 90s of the last century, with whom in the twenty-first century the secret services learned to effectively fight by quickly blocking major drug supply channels.

10. Ricky Ross

American Ricky Ross, better known in the criminal circles as Freeway, was the king of "crack" in the 80s. During the day, through dealers, he sold drugs for more than $ 3 million, distributing about 400 kilograms of cocaine per week. Now being in an American prison, serving a life sentence, without the right to parole. Passed Ricky Ross partner, becoming intermediaries in the sale of 100 kilograms of cocaine to federal agents.

9. Paul Lear Alexander

Paul Lear Alexander, nicknamed “The Cocaine Baron”, is a very ambiguous person who has grown old around him with an aura of mystery and omnipotence. For some time he was the number one supplier of cocaine in Brazil, and at the same time he became so insolent that he openly handed out business cards. However, he was forced to flee to the United States, where he became an informant for the Drug Enforcement Administration, leaking a lot of competitors and seriously increasing the scale of his activities. As a result, Paul Lear Alexander went to jail because of a double game with the federal authorities.

8. Santiago Luis Polanco Rodriguez

Dominican Santiago Luis Polanco Rodriguez, nicknamed Yayo, turned the sale of drugs into a real art, using the marketing tricks of large chain stores. He managed to create his own brand, introduced a system of discounts for regular customers, and the goods were distributed in beautiful parchment envelopes. Rodriguez was able to go to jail for a short time, for a relatively minor offense not related to the main activity. He now lives in Dominica with his family, out of the reach of the US judiciary.

7. Felix Mitchell

Felix Mitchell, better known in criminal circles as “Cat” and “Gangster 69”, did not just create a drug empire, but became a favorite of the black neighborhoods of Auckland, thanks to numerous charity events. He paid for scholarships and education for athletes, generously funded schools, and gave free tickets to children in amusement parks and zoos. After his arrest, during the redistribution of spheres of influence, the streets of the city for several weeks turned into a real theater of hostilities. Mitchell was killed in prison, and his funeral turned into a real show with a crowd of thousands, lots of flowers and expensive cars. Most paradoxically, a few years after his death, he was acquitted due to errors during the investigation, which made Felix Mitchell a true legend of the underworld.

6. Carlos Leder

Carlos Leder was able to make a dizzying career from an unknown car thief to one of the founders of the Medellin cartel. At one time, he was able to create a very effective system for the delivery of cocaine from Colombia to the United States through Southeast Asia, and made cocaine available even to the middle class. Carlos turned the island of Normans Cay, the Bahamas, into a transshipment base, up to 300 kilograms of drugs passed through the quotation daily. As a result, he was pressed by the Colombian police and extradited to the United States, where Carlos Ledera received a life sentence.

5. Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha

Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha, nicknamed "El Mexicano", one of the founders of the Medellin cartel, controlled the transportation of cocaine from Colombia to the United States through Panama and Mexico, plus established channels for the uninterrupted supply of drugs to Europe and Asia. His scale of activity was so great that he even got a hundred of the richest people in the world according to Forbes magazine. Gacha, distinguished by particular cruelty, with the filing of which the Minister of Justice of Colombia and the leaders of several local parties were killed. Moreover, he managed to create a professional army, unleashing a real war with the government. As a result, he was killed on a ranch during the storming of the Colombian police.

4. Griselda Blanco

Griselda Blanco, also known as the "Miami Cocaine Queen", actively collaborated with the Medellin cartel, was considered one of the best distributors of cocaine. It was she who was the first to establish an uninterrupted supply of drugs to the United States from Colombia. Griselda Blanco was able to earn a fortune of half a billion dollars, starting her journey as a girl of easy virtue, changing three husbands along the way. It was a very unbalanced, especially distinguished by its cruelty, on the hands of Griselda Blanca the blood of dozens, if not hundreds of people killed with special sadism. She served 20 years in a US prison for drug trafficking, after which she was deported to Colombia, where she was killed by two mercenaries on motorcycles, firing several shots at point blank range.

3. Hong Sa

Hun Sa, nicknamed the “Opium King” and “Prince of Death”, is not just another ordinary drug lord, but one of the leaders of the Burmese opposition, who managed to create his own state in a state on the border of Myanmar, Laos and Thailand. For some time he controlled 75% of the world's heroin market, fought protracted guerrilla battles with the regular army, and the American authorities offered three million dollars for his extradition. As a result, he surrendered to the Burmese authorities in 1996, having spent the rest of his days in his homeland in comfortable conditions under house arrest.

2. Amando Carillo Fuentes

Amando Carillo Fuentes, also known as the "Lord of Heaven", began his career as a drug dealer as a cocaine henchman for one of the Colombian cartels, who sold through his own network of distributors. In the late 80s, when the Colombian cartels got into big trouble with the law, he got down to business seriously, organizing the Juarez Cartel, which controlled half of the drug trafficking from Mexico to the United States. Fuentes was the first to actively use planes to transport drugs, owning a whole flotilla of 700 flying machines that continuously cruised from south to north America and back. In the best years, under his strict guidance, drug trafficking reached up to 30 million dollars a day. Amando Carillo Fuentes died during an unsuccessful plastic surgery.

1. Pablo Escobar

Drug lord number one, this is Pablo Escobar, the founder of the Medellin drug cartel, who ruled it with an iron fist for many years. In his best years, he controlled 80% of the world cocaine market, by the end of the 90s he made a fortune of $ 9 billion, hitting the list of the richest people in the world according to Forbes. Escobar began his criminal career with ordinary thefts, but quickly went up the hill, by 1977 becoming the number one authority in the underworld. He was not distinguished by a special fantasy of doing business, but he was distinguished by cruelty, the ability to restore order and achieve the goal at any cost. Pablo Escobar waged a real war against officials in Colombia who tried to oppose him, as a result of which more than 30 judges, 400 policemen, about 3,000 civilians were killed and a plane with 100 passengers on board was blown up. As a result, in addition to the authorities, they declared war on the competing drug cartels and the people who suffered from Escobar, who united in the Los Pepes organization. In a few years, a whole bunch of people associated with the No. 1 drug lord in the world were destroyed. Pablo Escobar died at the hands of a Los Pepes sniper, during the police assault on the house in which he was hiding.

In first place in our ranking of the Top 10 richest drug lords in the world is the person about whom a whole Hollywood blockbuster was shot. Born in 1930 in North Carolina, USA, Frank Lucas began his presence in the international drug business from New York and eventually expanded his drug empire into Southeast Asia.He broke the monopoly of the Italian mafia and made huge profits from drug trafficking and, in particular, heroin.

His life was dramatized in American Gangster, starring Oscar-winning Denzel Washington. According to the FBI, the state of Frank Lucasis a record $52 billion.

2. Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar - $6.7 billion

Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar was born on December 26, 1955 in the Allahabad district of India.With his brother Shabir Ibrahim, he set up D-Company in Mumbai. How is it consideredhe heads a drug empire in India and financed the 1993 Mumbai bombings.Since then, he has become the most wanted man in India.In addition to the drug trade, he is involved in the arms trade,and also financed Bollywood, the Indian equivalent of Hollywood. He was declared a terrorist in the US and India.It is believed that he is now in hiding in Pakistan and is currently wanted by Interpol.His net worth is $6.7 billion.

3. Brothers Ochoa Vazquez - $6 billion

Jorge Luis, Juan David and Fabio - these three brothers were among the main leaders of the world famous Medellin cartel in Colombia.The cartel smuggled hundreds of tons of cocaine into countries around the world and made huge sums from it. It is believed that the brothers own 6 billion dollars and occupy an honorable 3rd place in our Top 10 richest drug lords in the world.

4. Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela - $3 billion

Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela was born on January 30, 1939 in Mariquita, he was a Colombian drug lord and ex-leader of the Cal Cartel. The Cali Cartel was formed by Gilberto and his brother Miguel Rodríguez Orejuela in the 1970s. They were mainly associated with the marijuana trade. In the 1980s, they were also involved in the cocaine trade. The Cali Cartel controlled 80% of the US market and 90% of the European cocaine market. In September 2006, both Gilberto and Miguel were sentenced to prison. Gilberto's net worth is $3 billion.

5. Carlos Leder

Carlos Leder, born September 11, 1949, is a drug lord and co-founder of Cartell Medellin, the most notorious drug cartel in the world.He was born in Colombia.He is currently serving a 55-year prison sentence in the United States. Carlos' career began with theft of luxury cars, then he moved into the sale of marijuana, and eventually came to manage one of the most famous drug cortels in the world.His fortune is 2.7 billion dollars.

6. Joaquin Archivaldo Guzman Laura

Laura, also known as El Chapo or Shorty, due to his short stature, is one of the most violent and wealthy drug lords. He recently led the Sinaloa drug cartel in Mexico.According to Forbes magazine, he is the 10th richest person in Mexico, in 2011 he was worth US$1 billion. US DepartmentThe Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) considers him the godfather of the drug world.He was captured in 2016.

7. Rafael Caro Quintero

Rafael Caro Quintero was born on October 3, 1952 in Mexico.He founded the now destroyed Guadalajara cartel with Miguel Gallardo and others in the 1970s. The cartel was involved in smuggling marijuana from Mexico to the United States.In 1985, he was sentenced to 40 years in prison for murder,released from prison in 2013.His net worth is $650 million.

8. George Jacob Young

Born August 6, 1942 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, George Jacob Jung was involved in the US cocaine trade in the 1970s and early 1980s.He was part of the Medellin Cartel, which smuggled massive amounts of cocaine from Colombia into the United States.His life was portrayed by Johnny Depp in the movie Punch in 2001. Young was released from prison in 2014 after 20 years in prison for drug smuggling.His fortune is about 100 million dollars.

9. Ricky Ross

Born January 26, 1960 in Troupe, Texas, USA, Richard Donnell Ross, known as "Freeway" Rick Ross, is known for his drug empire established in Los Angeles, California during the 1980s. Rossstarted selling cocaine andexpensive drugs when he was not even 19 years old.Interestingly, he wrote his autobiography in 2014. His net worth is $52 million.

10. Ismael Zambada Garcia

Also known asEl Mayo Zambada, is anMexicandrug lordhe was the leaderSinaloa cartel. Before taking charge of the entire cartel, he served as the logistics coordinator for the Zambada Garcia faction of the Sinaloa cartel.

Born January 1, 1948, Ismael is also known as El Mayo Zambada.He is originally from Mexico and co-led Carl Sinaloa with El Chapo until 2016 when Chapo was captured.He now took full command of the cartel.

Studying the Forbes list, we see in it large entrepreneurs, oilmen, gas and Internet magnates, coal kings and owners of other resource companies. But people live on our planet, in whose bins even greater wealth is hidden than all these Abramovich and Zuckerberg. True, their names will never be included in the official list, and one can only guess about the exact amount of savings. These people are drug lords. Often their fortune amounts to tens of billions of dollars, and their influence is so great that they can decide the fate of entire states, keeping the legitimate authorities in fear and submission.

In late September - early October, two high-profile stories took place at once with the participation of two different well-known drug lords. Let's start with the most unusual, and also remember the other most famous drug kings on the planet.

La China

Imagine a 30-year-old pretty Mexican who runs one of the most powerful cartels in the country and just loves to kill not only competitors and enemies, but also other, often innocent people. And at some point, this girl is handed over to the police by her own boyfriend, tired of cruelty. It looks like the scenario of not the most big-budget action movie that will fail at the box office, because "it doesn't happen in life."

Now imagine that this is all true. And there is. 30 year old burning brunette is called Melissa Margarita Calderon Ojeda nicknamed La China. For a long time, she commanded a detachment of militants responsible for expanding the territories controlled by the drug cartel, in which she was a member. During her seven years in this position, the number of victims of the drug wars has tripled, and the murders have become many times more brutal, up to the cutting off of limbs. At one fine moment, the man whose place she occupied came out of prison, and the lady was asked to move. It was a mistake. She moved so much that she organized her own cartel, drawing over to her side a huge number of militants under her control. The girl made her lover her deputy Pedro Gomez nicknamed El Chino. She gave her rivals a bloody nightmare.

In the end, El Chino, frightened by his bloodthirsty mistress, went straight to the police, where he surrendered his passion with giblets for the promise of concessions in court. La China was taken without firing a shot when she tried to get out of the Mexican state she controlled. In addition to transporting an absolutely astronomical amount of drugs, she will be charged with the murder of more than 150 people.

La China. A photo: Frame youtube.com

Barbie

The second story is connected with a drug lord nicknamed Barbie caught back in 2010 in Mexico. Such an unusual nickname Edgar Valdes received for blond hair and blue eyes.

Before leading his own cartel, he was the head of the Los Negros assassination squad in the brothers' cartel. Beltran Leyva. After one of the brothers who ran the cartel was killed, Barbie went to war with the survivor and won. During the clashes, new and new victims constantly appeared.

Edgar Valdes. Photo: www.globallookpress.com

Perhaps Barbie, by the way, who was not born in Mexico, but in the USA, would have continued his criminal activities if he had not attracted attention by killing a whole group of American tourists, whom he mistook for members of a warring group with him. After that, a reward of $2 million was announced by the United States for assistance in his capture.

He was arrested in 2010 by Mexican police. Barbie is being extradited just now. By the way, some time before the extradition, it became known about the mass burial of those killed on his own ranch in Mexico.

Pablo Escobar

Not a single rating of the most famous drug lords in the world can do without the legendary Pablo Escobar, about which they even make feature films. His influence knew no bounds. He killed on such a scale that some real armed conflicts cannot stand comparison with his brutality. What is worth at least an attack on a plane that followed a regular flight with 107 people on board. According to Escobar, the Colombian presidential candidate he did not like was flying on this flight, whom he was going to kill. Only later it turned out that the information was erroneous. In total, he killed or ordered the death of 30 judges and at least 400 policemen. The total number of people killed as a result of its activities is estimated at about 3,000 people. At the time of its heyday, Escobar's cartel controlled 4/5 of the entire global cocaine market, and Escobar's fortune was estimated at about $40-50 billion. Interestingly, the people of Colombia doted on him, because he protected ordinary people and always helped, spending huge sums on social needs. Escobar died in 1993 in a shootout with Colombian and American troops.

Pablo Escobar. Photo: Public Domain

Opium King

One might get the impression that drug lords exist only in Latin America. But it's not. One of the evidence for this is Hong Sa nicknamed the Opium King. He is one of the former military commanders of the Burmese army. At some point, Hong Sa, along with 800 soldiers, disappeared into the middle of the jungle. Later it became known that they began to grow and sell opium, which was used to manufacture heroin. For these purposes, a real city was built. At one point, Hong Sa was considered the largest heroin trafficker in the world, owning 75% of the world market for this drug. For his country, he was so important that the government of Burma even refused to extradite him to the United States of America, although they offered 2 million dollars. As a result, Hong Sa died of natural causes in luxury and wealth.

Hong Sa. Photo: commons.wikimedia.org

Griselda Blanco

Griselda Blanco. Photo: www.globallookpress.com

La China was far from the only female drug lord. There was also Griselda Blanco, who was nicknamed the Cocaine Queen of Miami. She was considered one of the best merchants in the United States and worked for the famous Medellin cartel. Like La China, Griselda liked to kill a lot and with fiction. At the same time, she loved to be at the parade - in a long evening dress from one of the best designers in the world, of which there were a huge number in her wardrobe. A fortune of $ 500 million allowed her to lead a comfortable existence. At some point in 1984, she was caught and sentenced to 20 years in prison. Griselda was released in 2004. Immediately after her release, she illegally fled to Colombia, where her trail ends.

chess player

Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela nicknamed The Chess Player is also considered one of the most famous drug lords in the world. He, along with his brother, organized the Cali cartel, which for a long time competed with the Medellinx cartel. In the 90s of the last century, this cartel owned about 80% of the world's cocaine exports, and the annual income was close to 8 billion dollars. But in 1993, the Chess Player was arrested, and in 2004 he was extradited to the United States, where he is currently serving his 30-year sentence.

Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela. Photo: EPA / COLOMBIAN NATIONAL POLICE

Carlos Leder

Carlos Leder. Photo: commons.wikimedia.org

Carlos Leder can certainly be called a man who once and for all changed the world of drug trafficking. It was he who came up with the most modern methods of delivering cocaine from Colombia to the United States of America - through Thailand, Vietnam and other Asian countries. It was he who was one of the founding fathers of the famous Medellin cartel. If Escobar will be remembered for the thousands of demonstrations in his support and the real military operations that his fighters carried out, then Leder will be remembered for buying one of the Bahamas. On the island, he built a real impregnable fortress, in which he felt safe. A crazy volume of drug trafficking passed through the island - 300 kilograms of cocaine per hour. As a result, he was nevertheless caught - he is in prison in the United States.

Shorty

Joaquin Guzman Loera- A Mexican drug lord nicknamed Shorty is one of the most wanted criminals in the world. After liquidation Osama bin Laden he even topped the list for a while. For information leading to his capture, American intelligence agencies are ready to offer one of the largest rewards in history - $ 5 million. Already in the 21st century, he was included in the list of the most influential people in the world, and in the Forbes list with a fortune of more than $ 1 billion. According to some reports, his influence exceeded even that of Pablo Escobar. In 1993, he was even arrested, but after seven years behind bars, he fled and is still at large.

After the death of the leader of the terrorist organization "Al-Qaeda" Osama bin Laden, Joaquin Guzman became the most dangerous criminal in the world and the most wanted according to the American magazine Forbes.

Mexican drug lord Joaquín Guzmán Loera, better known as El Chapo (Shorty), has escaped from a maximum security prison in Mexico, local officials said. The state of the drug dealer, according to Western media, is at least one billion dollars. However, it is important to understand that it is very difficult to determine either the exact income from drug transactions or the plausibility of other "achievements". But there are many rumors around the drug lords of the whole world, often greatly exaggerated, and on the basis of these rumors, various ratings of the most influential drug dealers in the world are compiled. Below is a list of the most famous drug lords, about which there are many legends.

10) Ricky Freeway Ross

Ross was the biggest distributor of "crack" in the 80s. Allegedly, his business was based on buying up to 400 kilograms of cocaine a week and selling "crack" worth more than $3 million every day. As a result, some consider him the only person responsible for the cocaine epidemic in the United States. In 1999, such a claim was vehemently refuted by the US Department of Justice, which acknowledged the sheer size of his operations, but denied any mention that Ross (or anyone else) himself could be responsible. Ross's career ended in 1996 when he was betrayed by his own partner, who offered to sell 100 kg of cocaine to an undercover federal DEA agent. As a result, today Ricky Ross is in an American prison with no chance of being released.

9) Paul Lear Alexander, The Cocaine Baron

Paul Lear Alexander, nicknamed "The Cocaine Baron", is a very ambiguous person who has grown old around him with an aura of mystery and omnipotence. For some time he was the number one supplier of cocaine in Brazil, and at the same time he was so insolent that he openly handed out business cards. However, he was forced to flee to the United States, where he became an informant for the Drug Enforcement Administration, leaking a lot of competitors and seriously expanding his business. As a result, Paul Lear Alexander went to jail for a double game, actively expanding his business while leaking to competitors by the federal authorities. There are many rumors about Alexander. They say, for example, that he was trained by the Israeli Mossad. Alexander is currently in a Brazilian prison.

8) Daoud Ibrahim Kaskar

Daoud Ibrahim Kaskar, an Indian crime boss estimated to be worth over $6 billion, is one of the most violent criminals. He was involved in the 1993 Mumbai bombings that killed over 250 people. She also had close ties to Osama bin Laden and ran a powerful organization called the Goldman Sachs of Organized Crime. His organization, known as the D-Company, ran large-scale drug dealing operations and was involved in virtually every type of criminal activity from extortion, terrorism, to the film industry. She has financed several popular Indian films and is believed to have received a significant amount of income from Bollywood. Kaskar is currently the most wanted man in India and is believed to be hiding in Pakistan. For its part, Pakistan denies that he is on its territory.

7) Felix Mitchell

Felix Mitchell, better known in criminal circles as "Cat" and "Gangster 69", did not just create a drug empire, but became a favorite of the black neighborhoods of Auckland, thanks to numerous charity events. He paid for scholarships and education for athletes, generously funded schools, and gave free tickets to children in amusement parks and zoos. After his arrest, the streets of the city were turned into a real theater of operations during the redistribution of spheres of influence. Mitchell's notoriety made him a target for the authorities, which led to a life sentence in Federal Penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth. Mitchell was stabbed to death in prison less than 2 years after his imprisonment, and his funeral turned into a real show with a crowd of thousands, a bunch of flowers and expensive cars. Most paradoxically, a few years after his death, he was acquitted due to errors during the investigation, which made Felix Mitchell a true legend of the underworld.

6) Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha

Even before Rodriguez became the No. 2 man behind Pablo Escobar in the Medellin Cartel, in his youth he worked as a contract killer for various gangsters and drug dealers such as Veronica Rivera de Vargas. Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha, nicknamed "El Mexicano" (Mexican), one of the founders of the Medellin cartel, who controlled the transportation of cocaine from Colombia to the United States through Panama and Mexico, established drug supply channels in Europe and Asia. He also played a key role in setting up remote laboratories in the Colombian jungle, where thousands of workers lived and produced massive amounts of cocaine. During one of the raids by the drug enforcement agency in 1984 on one of these laboratories, records were found showing that 15 tons of coca paste were delivered to the location within six weeks. His scale of activity was so great that he even got a hundred of the richest people in the world according to Forbes magazine. Gacha has always been tireless, he was constantly looking for new, creative drug supply routes from Mexico to the United States. He is also responsible for the increasing brutality of the Cartel. He specifically hired foreign military experts, brought them to Colombia and trained Cartel troops in such things as assassination and guerrilla warfare. Gacha, distinguished by particular cruelty, with the filing of which the Minister of Justice of Colombia and the leaders of several local parties were killed. Moreover, he managed to create a professional army, unleashing a real war with the government. As a result, he was killed on a ranch during the storming of the Colombian police.

5) Carlos Leder

Carlos Leder was able to make a dizzying career from an unknown car thief to one of the founders of the Medellin cartel. At one time, he was able to create a very effective system for the delivery of cocaine from Colombia to the United States through Southeast Asia, and make cocaine available even to the middle class. The island of Normans Cay, the Bahamas, has become a transshipment base, through the quotation daily passed up to 300 kilograms of drugs. Leder is called the father of the cocaine epidemic in the US in the 70s. After all, then the drug was quite expensive, but the businessman decided to saturate the market as much as possible, gradually increasing the volume of an inexpensive drug, making it affordable for the middle class. Leder became the author of promotions in the style of "First Dose Free". The drug lord had a close friendship with Escobar - he was his brother-in-law and worshiped Hitler, printing a nationalist newspaper in green, "drug" ink. Leder was killed by megalomania - he turned one of the Bahamas into his own transshipment base, controlling the entire territory. According to some estimates, there were up to 300 kilograms of cocaine per hour. Leder declared a real war on the authorities - only more than a hundred journalists were killed, thousands of policemen died. For the head of each of them, the criminals were paid a bonus from drug dealers in the amount of $ 4,000. This could not please the authorities, who extradited the drug lord to the United States, where they put him behind bars. Leder is serving a prison term in the United States. Another 135 years were added to his life sentence.

4) Griselda Blanco, Miami Cocaine Queen

A woman living in the US successfully distributed cocaine in this country. For a long time, the cocaine queen was considered invincible. This was accompanied by her ruthlessness, possibly associated with an unbalanced psyche. Among all the drug dealers who collaborated with the Medellin drug cartels, it was Blanco who was one of the most effective. Blanco began her journey in the 60s when her husband, Carlos Trujillo, introduced the woman to Alberto Bravo, a merchant from Medellin. In 1971, the woman organized her own network. Some sources have estimated her personal fortune at half a billion dollars, and the annual turnover of her empire was estimated at 40 billion. The lady wore fashionable haute couture dresses, smoked crack, but legends say that her greatest entertainment was cold-blooded murders, committed with a special perverse sophistication. They talk about 200 victims of the drug queen. The fact that she killed three of her husbands gave her the nickname "Black Widow". Over time, Blanco became a drug addict, having fun shooting innocent people. Sexual contacts with her took place at gunpoint. The woman's cruelty and her murder of a two-year-old child spurred her manhunt. She was eventually caught by the DEA in 1985 and sentenced to 20 years for drug dealing. Blanco was released in 2004 and immediately deported to Colombia, her homeland, her current whereabouts are unknown.

3) Amando Carillo Fuentes

This Mexican became famous for his activities in organizing the cocaine drug trade in the United States, Argentina, Chile and Mexico. Fuentes gained experience in this business by working for Colombians during the cocaine boom. His first successful step in this business was the complete rejection of cash. He came up with the idea of ​​taking payment in cocaine, using it to create his own drug distribution network. In the late 80s, the influence of Colombians in this business began to subside, the enterprising Fuentes created his own Juarez Cartel in Mexico, which began to have significant power - after all, its daily turnover was $ 30 million. This power was facilitated by the fact that Fuentes decided to use the air fleet to distribute cocaine, which gave him the appropriate nickname. There were more than 700 aircraft in the Cartel's fleet flying to Peru, Bolivia and Colombia. At the time of the heyday of the drug lord's affairs, even the highest officials of the Mexican "Drug Enforcement Administration" passed on his payroll. Fuentes' own network was estimated, according to some estimates, at $25 billion. Amando's operations could not fail to attract the attention of the authorities to him, and rather quickly he became one of the most wanted people in the world. That is why Fuentes resorted to plastic surgery in 1997 to change his appearance. However, the doctors made a mistake, which led to the death of their patient first, and then themselves. They say the surgeons were found walled up in oil barrels. The case of Fuentes was continued by his brother and son, but the power of the Cartel in competitive wars was noticeably weakened.

2) Hong Sa, "The Opium King"

In the mid-1960s, one of Burma's military commanders, Hun Sa, disappeared into the jungle with an army of 800 men and began growing opium. The work of an entire city was devoted to this, and at the peak of his "fame" Hong Sa was the largest heroin dealer in the world, producing 3/4 of the entire world turnover. Hun Sa, nicknamed "Opium King" and "Prince of Death", is not just another ordinary drug lord, but one of the leaders of the Burmese opposition, who managed to create his own state in a state on the border of Myanmar, Lasos and Thailand. Although the drug lord lived in Burma, the bulk of his opium and heroin flow falls on the United States. After several skirmishes with the authorities, Hong Sa was captured in 1969, but released in exchange for hostages in 1973. By 1985, the alliance of drug dealers and rebels led to the fact that the Shan region became practically autonomous from the authorities of Burma. For some time he controlled 75% of the world's heroin market, fought protracted guerrilla battles with the regular army, and the American authorities offered three million dollars for his extradition. Curiously, in 1989, Hong Sa offered the US authorities to buy 1,000 tons of heroin from him so that he would not enter the international markets. In America, the drug lord was nicknamed the "Prince of Death", but they could not catch him - he himself voluntarily surrendered to the Burmese authorities in 1996, fearing that otherwise they would extradite him to the United States. As a result, Hong Sa lived the rest of his life in excellent conditions under conditional arrest in Rangoon, dying there in 2007.

1) Pablo Escobar

Drug lord number one is Pablo Escobar, the founder of the Medellin drug cartel, who ruled it with an iron fist for many years. Pablo Escobar was not the smartest drug dealer, nor was he the most organized or the most innovative. It's just that he was the most ruthless, and that eliminates certain differences. Pablo grew up among the poor, imbibing romantic tales of "banditos" who robbed the rich and gave money to the poor. Life in the slums led to the fact that the young man was expelled from school. First, Escobar began stealing tombstones from the cemetery, then he created a gang that was engaged in car theft and racketeering. In 1972, when Pablo was only 23 years old, he became one of Medellin's most notorious crime bosses. At this time, the cocaine boom in the States arose and Escobar readily took up a new business. In 1977, he and three other major traffickers founded the Medellin drug cartel. The head of the Medellin cartel ran his empire in Colombia with apparent impunity, carrying out acts of retaliation against anyone who dared to challenge him. As a result, 30 judges were killed, more than 400 policemen were killed, and Avianca Flight 203 was blown up. By mistake (he believed that the Colombian presidential candidate was flying in that plane, although he was not there), 107 civilians were killed. It is believed that over 3,000 people were killed on his orders. At the time of its heyday, Escobar's cartel controlled 4/5 of the entire global cocaine market. It was estimated at about 30 billion dollars annually. Escobar made a fortune of $ 9 billion by the end of the 90s, getting into the list of the richest people in the world according to Forbes. It should be noted that, wanting to enlist the support of the population, Escobar built houses for the poor, laid roads and even built stadiums. In the 80s, Pablo began his political activities, however, realizing that outside of Medellin he was just a “dubious person”, he unleashed a new wave of terror. Naturally, Escobar was hunted. Fearing his extradition to the United States, he concluded an agreement with the Colombian authorities, according to which he surrendered in 1991, and had to serve his sentence in the most comfortable prison. However, this did not change anything - Escobar went to nightclubs and stadiums, continued to conduct his business. As a result, the authorities decided to transfer the criminal to a real prison, it is not surprising that the drug lord soon escaped altogether. In Colombia, there was even a special group of citizens who suffered from Escobar. They began to persecute and destroy everyone who was somehow connected with him. Escobar's estates and houses were burned, his power melted away, and in 1993 the cartel also collapsed. A real hunt unfolded for Escobar, the result of which was his mortal wound on December 2, 1993, after a joint operation by Colombian and American special forces. Gave Pablo a call to his wife - he had not seen his family for over a year. There are many legends about Escobar. In Medellin itself, he remained a revered man. It is said that it was not Pablo himself who was killed, but his double. Another beautiful story is that while out in the mountains at night with his kids, Escobar burned about $2 million in cash to keep warm.

Money for weight, whiskey and naked girls. Own army and life in luxury style. This is how billionaire drug lords live. But such chic costs life. The only thing these people fear is spending the rest of their lives behind bars.

Khun Sa. The largest and most famous heroin dealer, the political leader of a separatist organization, as well as the president of a country not recognized by the world. For many years he ruled with his own army called the Golden Triangle. Which controlled the borders of Laos, Myanmar and Thailand. 70% of the world's opium came from this territory. He made $5 billion from opium.

Cocaine-dealing Ochoa brothers. Colombia city of Medellin. People from a prosperous family decided to link their careers with cocaine. In 1984, one of the brothers, Jorge Ochoa, moved to Spain. He set up a real estate business in Madrid with colleagues from Colombia and Honduras. He also established connections for the supply of cocaine. In 1987 Baratya Ochoa was listed as a billionaire. Earned 6 billion US dollars.

Dawood Ibragm Kaskar: At the age of 19, he became a preliminary robber group "Company-D". The type of activity of the group: gambling, drugs, bowling and terror. Dawood is not only a criminal person, but also a fanatic. In 1993, he organized a series of powerful explosions in Mumbai, after which 257 people died. Davud wanted to get even with one of the Hindus, because of his Muslim religion. At the moment, Dawood's capital is 6.7 billion US dollars.

Amado Carrillo Fuentes: Amado is Mexico's biggest drug dealer. The Drug Enforcement Organization (DEA) estimates that Fuentes was making over US$200 million every week! In total, he earned 25 billion US dollars.

Pablo Escobar: Colombian drug lord. Escobar began his criminal career as a teenager. He began to engage in cigarette smuggling, robbery, and counterfeit lottery ticket sales. And later he organized a business of kidnapping people with the aim of extorting money and cocaine trafficking. Involved in the murders of more than 30 journalists, 50 Colombian bailiffs and lawyers, as well as more than 3,000 soldiers and policemen. He killed politicians and civilians, organized bombings and carried out executions. He was shot in 1993 by a special detachment. Earned more than 30 billion dollars.