At a young age, Carillo was already in the drug trade industry helping his uncle. However, he had high dreams of conquering the U.S. drug trade. Read on to find out how plastic surgery led to this Mexican drug lord’s demise.
“Gangster Warlords” author Ioan Grillo recently revealed how the notorious Mexican drug cartels are making billions of dollars because of drug trade in the United States. In a video published on Business Insider, Grillo explained how traffickers invest in drugs and how much profits they earn.
A Colombian drug lord who long dominated a historically lawless area near the country's border with Venezuela was killed on Thursday in a ground and air attack, local officials announced.
A small plane that had apparently taken off from Venezuela and carried more than a ton of cocaine on Wednesday crashed off the coast of Colombia. The aircraft had been pursued by the Colombian military.
Diosdado Cabello, widely considered the second most powerful man in embattled President Nicolás Maduro's administration, on Tuesday emphatically denied media reports that he and other high-ranking Venezuelan officials were involved in the international drug trade.
A Mexican cartel apparently used a small southwest Kansas bank to launder some $2 million in drug proceeds, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration alleges in an affidavit.
