Chapter 59: Drug Cartels

She also understands that her words can only be a small assumption, can she really arrest the two bosses and interrogate them, and if she has this ability, she can directly catch her brother's president. Those sitting in the audience naturally understood this truth, but in this place, it was not ordinarily difficult to track down the high-level officials of the Colombian government involved in this matter, and it was not within their authority at all. If it is not handled well, not only will their lives be in danger, but it will even affect the relations between the two countries.

After listening to Song Dazhi's words, Liang Shan's heart moved. He collected his consciousness and fled into the darkness. The overall law and order in Bogotá is good, but because the whole country is fighting against rebels and drug traffickers, the law and order situation in the country is not good, and assassinations and bombings are frequent.

Bogotá Gold Museum is a landmark building, there are more than 20,000 pieces of gold artwork here, this is also the only gold museum in the world, during the day there are people from the world to visit and play, at night it is naturally heavily guarded, but in the alley not far from this place, five young people are scattered around the alley, occasionally a car is parked at the mouth of the alley, then a young man will come forward to whisper a few words, and then look vigilant to each other and observe each other before trading. After the deal is completed, people will hide in small alleys, and there are not many places like this in Bogotá, where most of the drugs in Colombia are sold to the United States.

While the five young men were waiting for the next business, an Oriental face appeared at the entrance of the alley, wearing a casual suit, looking slightly chubby, but with a friendly smile on his face all the time.

"Do you want to buy something happy?" One of them, a dark-skinned young man with long hair, came up and asked, and he said it in English, and there were many tourists who came to Bogotá, and the people who sold here naturally knew some English, and there were many addicts who came to buy drugs for their own use. If nothing else, just because it is cheap, the price of drugs here will double when they enter the United States, and the local gangsters will also mix in some other substitutes, and when they are sold to drug addicts, the price will be more than ten times higher than here, and it is precisely because of such crazy profits that drug trafficking will be so rampant.

"I'm very happy myself, I don't need to use your things, I just came over to ask you a few questions, and I hope you can answer me seriously." Liang Shan said with a smile, and even bowed slightly, looking very polite.

As soon as several young people heard Liang Shan's words, they immediately became alert, they were not good people who swept the floor or opened a newspaper kiosk, and the five of them took out their guns and pointed them at Liang Shan at the same time. "You're here for trouble? Get out of the way for me now, or we'll beat you into a sieve.

"No, no, no, I'm not here to ask you a few questions, you don't have to be so unfriendly, right?" Liang Shan shrugged his shoulders and said. This is Bogotá, and these people won't really kill people if they don't have to.

When these young people saw Liang Shan's fearless appearance, they didn't know whether Liang Shan was a stunned person or a person with amazing skills. At such a distance, even if he was wearing body armor, he would be shot in the head. The young man who asked was a little more temperamental, he didn't say a word, he smashed at Liang Shan's head, with his strength, even if he smashed it with the butt of the pistol, he would be smashed to the head and bleed, seeing that the butt of the gun smashed into Liang Shan's head was getting closer and closer, but the situation of the head breaking blood flow in their imagination did not appear, only to see the pistol miraculously in Liang Shan's hand, and the young man was holding his hand in the pain of cracking his teeth, and the other four people's brains were still a little unable to react, and when they came back to their senses, Liang Shan had already pointed the gun at them.

"I don't want your lives, I'm just asking a few questions, but if you move, I think someone might get hurt or die today." As Liang Shan spoke, he stepped forward and pinched the neck of the aching young man with his left hand. Liang Shan saw that he was quite ruthless just now, so he punished him a little and pinched off the three fingers of his right hand. This finger is connected to the heart, and the pain is the strongest.

"Okay, don't be impulsive, you have a question, just ask, let's all put the gun down, it won't be good if it goes off." One of the slightly chubby young men shouted loudly, and as soon as he said that, the other three had their guns down.

Liang Shan also lowered his gun and asked, "Which drug trafficking organization do you belong to?" Who is the boss? Where is the headquarters? "If these issues are in China or other countries with strict drug control, drug dealers will not talk about it, this is a high degree of secrecy. But as soon as these five people heard Liang Shan ask this question, they all looked at each other.

Liang Shan saw that the five of them had different expressions, and he wanted to do it again, thinking that if he used the soul induction technique directly, even if it would cause some damage to the spirit of the person being spelled, but these drug dealers were not good people, and he didn't have any psychological burden.

The fat man among them was the most clever, and immediately said: "We are from the Medellín Cartel, the boss is Escobar, and the headquarters is in Medellín, and I guarantee that I am telling the truth, and everyone in this country knows these things." "Actually, these three issues are not secret in Colombia at all, they are completely public, you can ask anyone on the street, and the situation here is similar to that of the Golden Triangle.

Liang Shan was also dumbfounded when he heard their answers, and thought that it would take some effort, but he didn't expect people to tell him clearly. It seems that he still has no culture. Thinking of this, Liang Shan himself was a little embarrassed, let go of the young man who was choked by the neck, turned around and walked out of the alley, swept it with his divine sense, and saw that several people were surrounding the injured young man, and did not follow him.

Medellín is located in northern Colombia, in the western foothills of the Cordillera Mountains, and was founded by the Spanish in 1616. It is 1,600 meters above sea level and has an average annual temperature of 21-22 degrees. The population has increased in recent years and is now the second largest city in Colombia with a population of more than 2 million. The city has a pleasant climate, rich in orchids, and a well-developed textile industry, which is popular all over the world. Most famously, it is home to a huge drug syndicate that has become a major distribution center for cocaine, and rampant terrorist activities have turned this "Spring City" into a battlefield, where violence has intensified since 1982, and it is no exaggeration to say that blood has been spilled on the streets of Medellín.

There are a number of reasons why the drug cartel is headquartered here, firstly because of the transportation, which is located in the northwest and has excellent air access, and secondly, because the city is surrounded by rolling mountains, which provides excellent cover for underground cocaine factories. Medellín was then traditionally an industrial city, so it was easy to obtain the chemicals needed to refine cocaine, and finally because of the slump in the textile industry, which kept Medellín's economy alive in the 70s, left thousands of young people on the streets, many of whom were absorbed by drug cartels and became drug traffickers or thugs.

The cartel cartel centered in the city of Medellín was formed in the 70s. Initially, the syndicate was mainly engaged in the smuggling of emeralds, and later began to smuggle drugs such as marijuana. Since the 70s, with the expansion of the drug market in the United States, the demand for drugs has increased significantly, and this group has further developed into cocaine smuggling.

They buy coca leaves from other drug-producing countries in South America, such as Bolivia and Peru, for processing and marketing. By the early 80s, the cartel cartels were simply shirtless, cultivating coca and marijuana in Colombia, and gradually formed a monopoly production system of cultivation, processing and sales, as well as a self-contained drug trafficking route and network.

The central area controlled by the Medellín Cartel is the Leticia region, which borders Brazil. There are 100,000 hectares of coca leaf cultivation alone, and there are more than 300 cocaine processing plants alone. This is the main drug production base of the Medellín drug cartel. The base was cut off from the outside world by drug traffickers, and numerous obstacles were erected at key points and along the road, with multi-barreled artillery and anti-aircraft machine guns, and tanks to defend it. There are four large airports in the base, and various types of aircraft are parked at the airports, and drug traffickers can only enter and leave the base by plane. The drug-trafficking army guarding the base is far more advanced than the government army, and all of them are the most advanced weapons imported from Western countries.

The Medellín Cartel drug cartel controls most of the country's drug production. Currently, 15-20% of cocaine and marijuana on the drug market in Western countries come from Colombia. The cocaine processed by the Medellín cartel is mainly sold in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami, Boston, and New York in the United States. Most of the 1 million Colombians living in the United States are involved in drug smuggling. They smuggle about 1 million tons of cocaine into the United States every year, worth more than $10 billion.

For the sake of security, the Medellín Cartel drug cartel has acquired advanced motorboats and light aircraft to bring drugs into the United States from the waters off Florida in the United States, leaving the United States Coast Guard unguarded. In addition, Medellín drug organizations have opened overland smuggling routes to bring drugs into the United States from the long U.S.-Mexico border. Later, as the United States tightened its control over its borders and coastlines, drug organizations also opened up Asian avenues. They loaded the drugs on cargo ships or flights bound for Japan, shipped them to Japan, and from there they were shipped to the United States by sea or air.

The Medellín drug cartel invests part of the money they have earned from the sale of drugs in legitimate causes, in order to legitimize their illegal profits.