Colombian drug trafficking organization based in Cali, founded in the 1970s by the Rodríguez Orejuela brothers, José Santacruz Londoño, and Hélmer Herrera Buitrago. It was a major cocaine cartel that rivaled the Medellín Cartel and operated globally. Known for its sophisticated money laundering and intelligence networks. The cartel was dismantled in the late 1990s.
CRIMENET has extracted 109 linkages for this organization, including 69 cooperative ties across 22 organizations, 27 conflicts across 6 organizations, 13 other connections and footprints in 9 countries.
moving its refining operations out of Colombia to Peru and Bolivia
Salcedo flew over to El Salvador to oversee the plan to pick up the bombs and take them to an airfield...
forced the cartel to funnel its shipments through Mexico
he was forced to witness an execution of four Panamanians
moving its refining operations out of Colombia to Peru and Bolivia
the cartel began to expand its activities in Europe and developed a working relationship with tobacco smugglers from Galicia, Spain
In the early 1980s, the cartel sent Hélmer Herrera to New York City to establish a distribution center
el cartel de Cali estableció una alianza estratégica con la poderosa organización criminal Camorra
Rodríguez manejó las finanzas hacia Estados Unidos, Europa y Japón