In 1985, she was arrested in her House of California and sentenced to 20 years of prison. She was accused for the murders of 40 people, but they only can prove 3 murders and drug trafficking. Blanco try to kidnapped John Kennedy Jr. in 1994 to negotiate her freedom. She was know from the DEA as one of the most wanted criminal in the twentieth century. She had four children, and two were killed in Colombia. In Colombia, she believed to have murdered her second husband and his brother. In 2004 she get out of prison and when back to Colombia. She was murdered in Colombia in 2012.
Last data came from a newspaper story of Andres Lopez Exposes the Colombian Cartels. Andres Lopez Lopez alias Florecita born in Cali Colombia in June 15, 1971. He was one of the leaders of the Cartel of Norte de Valle, Colombia in the 90s. Lopez was
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He says “We weren't poor or hungry," His parents move to the United States when he was young. when he was 13 years old, he was sent to local military school. According to the Miami New Times, “ On his first day, Andrés asked to share a desk with a handsome, wealthy kid named Fernando Henao, who wore the nicest clothes in school and arrived every day with a different chauffeur. He was fascinated. Months later he found out that his friend were brother of a drug dealer.” He start at the age of 14 in his friend bother labs of Cali drug lords. He shipped 10 of thousands of kilos of cocaine through Miami every years. One of the reason of he beging trafficking was to bring back his family and his parents and grandmother don’t have to worried about the money. At 16 years, his friend and him start their own cocaine labs with the help of his Orlando (Fernando's Brother). Based on the Miami News Times, “by the early 1990s, López had become one of the most daring smugglers in Cali. At first,
The retelling of his life mostly took place in the Los Angeles county; Boxer’s hometown but also in different jails and correction facilities around California. Events such as armed robberies, grand theft, and petty theft were crimes Enriquez was performing all of throughout city Los Angeles, as well as Orange County.. All were reasons that landed him behind bars. At the early age of 18, right when he became a man; Boxer was sent to Soledad Penitentiary in Northern California for 9 years. Reason was because of an Armed Robbery. A few years later, he was transferred to the Deuel Vocational Institution in Tracy, California and then to Folsom Prison. While there, Boxer official...
Born into a poor family Joaquin only stayed in school till 3rd grade By then he was taken out to help his father with his drug business. When Guzman turned 15 he set out on his own to start his own drug business, which was so successful he was able to support his whole family, and even by his mother a mansion in an otherwise poor city. His drug company evolved into the Sinaloa Cartel and Joaquin Guzman became EL Chapo the Osama Bin Laden of the Drug Trade known for his brutal and meticulous tactics. El Chapo became one of the richest men in the world earning a place on Forbes billionaires list for four years until they took him off because they couldn't find his money's origin. He is also considered one of the greatest criminals in Mexico escaping 2 supermax prisons 2001 and 2015 and becoming the only other man besides Al Capone to be Chicago's public enemy No.1. El Chapo’s power not only over the Mexican drug cartel but also financially has made him a difficult person for the police to
His father sold marijuana while Guzman was a young teen. The money his father made with this marijuana business was spent on booze and prostitutes, so he really did not spend his money properly. At the age of 15, Guzman started his own marijuana business and usually
American serial killer, Richard Ramirez was born on February 29, 1960 in El Paso, Texas. Ramirez was known for being a satanic worshiper and for going on a two-year raped and torture rampage, harming more than 25 victims and murdering more than a dozen. Ramirez, also known as the "Night Stalker," turned to satanic worship at an early age by his cousin, a soldier who had recently returned from the war in Vietnam. Following a four-year trial, in 1989, Ramirez was convicted of 13 killings. Ramirez received the death penalty and was sent to San Quentin Prison in California. He later died on June 7, 2013, at the age 53.
The CIA’s 50-year history of smuggling drugs into America is generating hatred for the United States throughout the world. Like Pontius Pilate, CIA washes their hands of the human tragedies and the corruption of government offices. They do this by remaining and by refusing to recognize the evidence, supporting corruption. For the past 50 years, the CIA has abused its power by deliberately drugging and corrupting America; and therefore should be prosecuted.
He was a businessman during the 80’s that was born in Medellin, Colombia. By the time he was 30 he would become the richest person in the world for 7 consecutive years, according to Forbes magazine. He would attain his success through the business of smuggling drugs and other merchandises, but mostly drugs which were on high demand at that time in Colombia and in the United States. As agent Murphy narrated in the show Narcos: “Its supply created its own demand”( Narcos). Meaning that Pablo did not settle he was very ambitious, and the money he received from making these deals was put into getting more product and therefore more profit.
Growing up Escobar was exposed to many things that coerced him to be the man he became. Pablo Escobar grew up during a time called La Violencia (The Violence) it was a time of civil war between the Columbian Conservative Party and the Columbian
On January 14, 1964, police got a search warrant and raided Loma del Angel Ranch (Blanco, n.d.).
birth certificate with him (Lopez and Keteyian 17). Later Lopez, and his mother moved into his maternal grandmother’s house. His mother then abandoned him at the age of 10 years old, and his mother remarried. His mother hoped to begin a new life with her new husband. From that day on his grandmother, Benita Gutierrez and step-grandfather, Refugio Gutierrez took care of him. During his childhood, Lopez believed that his father was dead, but later discovered his existence through information told by his grandmother (Lopez and Keteyian 17-21). H...
The second half of the Guadalajara Cartel, the Tijuana Cartel was started in the 1990s and by the early 2000s became one of the “biggest and most violent criminal groups in Mexico,” as stated by the article, “The Five Most Famous Drug Cartels”. Led by the Arellano Felix brothers, the nephews of Miguel, and later their own nephew, Luis Fernando Sanchez Arellano, the Tijuana Cartel suffered through many deaths and arrests, which made the group smaller, yet still influential.
He succumbed to the allure appealing to other 20-something Spanish men in the early 1500s: earning riches and fame. He came to America in 1502 and spent 12 years conquering in the Caribbean, witnessing the exploitation and disease that was rampant among natives. Las Casas even owned slaves during this time .
Pablo Escobar dedicated most of his life to being the spearhead of the Medellin drug cartel in Colombia. The Medellin Cartel was not just a business, it was an empire. It possessed countless camps as well as laboratories devoted to the production of drugs. As it was mentioned earlier, the profits of the cartel were very high. The immense amount of money was put toward the purchase of new labs, planes, and even an island. The Medellin Cartel focused predominantly on cocaine. Not only did Pablo Escobar run a “criminal enterprise” committed to illegally trafficking drugs, he was also “responsible for the slaughter of hundreds of government officials, police, prosecutors, judges, journalists, and innocent bystanders” (Kelley). By spending large amounts of money on public projects to help others, many saw him as a very generous, caring man. Most people only saw the Pablo Escobar that loved to share his wealth with those who needed it in his hometown. They did not see what he was really capable of, commit...
Raised by his grandparents, Marquez was born in 1928 in a Colombian fishing village located in the Caribbean coast. “Because his parents were still poor and str...
Richard Ramirez also known as "The Night Stalker" was a notorious serial killer who tormented the lives of Los Angeles residents by raping, sodomizing, murdering, and torturing random citizens of the community. Ramirez was addicted to cocaine and was a Satan worshiper. His rain of torture throughout 1985 included over 29 victims. He has already outlived some of the victims that survived his attacks. In 1985 Ramirez was captured by an angry mob of citizens.
Ricardo Munoz Ramirez was born in El Paso, Texas on February 29, 1960. He was unfortunately given a very low class home with three brothers, one sister and a mom and dad. Most people called him Richard while he was young and, that name stuck around with him through his life. His father, Julian, was a very busy and stressed man. Julian had so much built-up anger because of this stress which made him abusive, especially towards Ramirez. His mother, Mercedes appeared to be much different than his father. She was a stay at home mom who cared very much for her children. He pursued the life of a criminal because of his family around him, including his father and especially his cousin, Mike. Mike impacted Ramirez in a way nobody else had. Ramirez committed his first murder on June 28, 1984. He was only 24 at the time. He went on to commit thirteen murders total and many more crimes within the span of two years. He was eventually apprehended on August 30, 1985 and was sentenced to jail for life along with 19 death sentences. While in jail, he suffered from liver failure and died in a hospital bed (Blanco 3).