Colombian drug trafficking organization based in the northern Valle del Cauca region, active from the 1980s to 2008. It emerged after the fragmentation of the Cali and Medellín cartels in the mid-1990s, becoming one of the most powerful cocaine trafficking groups. Known for extreme violence and internal betrayals, it was led by Orlando Henao Montoya until his death in 1998, after which it split into factions. The organization was dismantled by 2008, though small dissident groups remain active.
CRIMENET has extracted 60 linkages for this organization, including 33 cooperative ties across 16 organizations, 13 conflicts across 4 organizations, 14 other connections and footprints in 2 countries.
the Norte del Valle cartel exported more than 1.2 million pounds – or 500 metric tons – of cocaine worth in excess of $10 billion from Colombia to Mexico and ultimately to the United States for resale.
conspiring to import cocaine to the United States