In the 1980s and 1990s, the United States did not ban drugs, or did not know much about heroin and other drugs. At that time, the United States cared most about marijuana and opium. So that era was the best era for drug lords, and the biggest ones at that time were the Colombian drug lords.
Colombian drug lords were not the first to start drug trafficking, but they were the largest and most powerful. It was this group of Colombians who first began to organize drug cartels. At that time, the largest drug lord group in Colombia was the Medellin Cartel, Medellin, the second largest city in Colombia.
In this beautiful city, the world's largest drug lord, Pablo Escobar, walked out.
How legendary is this guy? Just look at his profile.
Pablo Escobar was once selected as one of the seven richest people in the world by Fortune magazine. His private army of 40,000 people is well-equipped; his special plane is called "Skylark". This combat helicopter originally belonged to the Colombian Navy. It is equipped with multiple rocket launchers and Sidewinder missiles and is known as an "air tank." Escobar dispatched three fighter jets to make an emergency landing of the "Skylark" at his own airport, becoming his private plane.
Escobar was the most arrogant drug lord in history. The policeman who arrested him was shot dead within three days; the judge who tried him had his wife’s bra and panties stained with semen sent to the judge’s office after she was gang-raped; the Colombian Attorney General who wanted him was turned over by him. He came here and offered a reward of 100 million US dollars for his capture, and ended up dead on the street. In 1987, one of his partners, Ochoa, was arrested. The president of the Colombian Supreme Court who was in charge of the trial resigned, and the Minister of Justice had to cancel the arrest warrant.
He also sent people to assassinate the Minister of Justice who advocated anti-narcotics at the time, and sent people to attack the Colombian Ministry of Justice building, kidnapping senior officials of the Ministry of Justice, Supreme Court, Supreme Prosecutor's Office and Anti-Narcotics Police who were in meetings. Finally, the Colombian government dispatched the army. The riot was eventually suppressed, but that was all. More than half of the judges and prosecutors in the building died. By the way, they also burned all criminal evidence about Escobar.
Later, the legendary drug lord planned to assassinate the president, but the president was lucky and did not board the plane equipped with a bomb. However, the plane still crashed, causing a large number of casualties. In short, this legendary drug lord has really achieved the feat of using one person against the entire country. If the Americans had not personally committed suicide, he would probably have turned the entire Colombia upside down.
Then there is the Medellin group to which he belongs. The Medellin Drug Cartel is not actually a specific gang organization, it is composed of 4 gang organizations. These four major drug trafficking groups are all notorious local drug trafficking organizations. How powerful are they? Just listen to me. There are nearly 300 large and small drug lords under the Medellin Drug Lords Group. They are active in various parts of the world and control a huge drug trafficking network of nearly 20,000 people. The Medellin Drug Lords Group has a complete drug production and Sales system, supported by strong armed forces, and trained a large number of assassin members to assassinate official officials who want to suppress drugs.
In front of the Medellin Drug Lords Group, the power of the Mafia and Yamaguchi-gumi cannot be brought to the fore. The annual income of the Medellin Drug Lords Group reaches more than 30 billion US dollars. An American anti-drug official once described the Medellin drug lord group: "In front of the Medellin drug lord group, the Mafia is like a primary school student."
However, it prospered but declined. Because it was too arrogant, American Dad became dissatisfied, so he ended up personally. The results speak for themselves.
Naturally, the fate of the Americans was not something that the Medellin Group could satisfy, so the Cali Group, the second largest drug lord group in Colombia at the time, was also affected and destroyed together. After that, Colombia’s drug lords became a thing of the past.
The Golden Circle was also an organization conceived while Escobar was still alive. At that time, the United States was negotiating an extradition treaty with Colombia, hoping to extradite Colombian drug lords to the United States for trial and detention.
It may be an exaggeration to say that Colombia at that time was a country ruled by drug lords, but the drug lords did have a great time there. Even if you get caught by the police, it doesn't matter. Being in jail is like taking a vacation. You just need to spend money to live comfortably. In a few years, means such as commutation, parole, and medical parole will be available.
So being extradited to the United States would be a disaster for them. After all, no one in the United States does what they do. Even if you are caught, if you really go in, you won't be able to get out for hundreds of years. So almost all drug lords at that time opposed this measure. Escobar even killed a presidential candidate for this.
At that time, Escobar felt that it was a bit unreasonable for him to fight against the government for the benefit of all drug lords, so he thought about whether he could bring together the Cali Group, the Norte Valley Group, etc. in the country to establish a drug lord organization. Form a major alliance. This is the Golden Circle, aptly named.
I have to say that Escobar’s idea was indeed very good. Considering the power of all drug lords in Colombia at the time, it was indeed not difficult to fight against the government.
Unfortunately, the idea is good, but the reality is very skinny.
The competition between these drug lord groups is greater than the alliance. For example, the contradiction between the Medellin Group and the Cali Group is great. The competition between the two sides for the New York market has led to a situation where the two sides are almost fighting to the death. The other drug lord groups are not much different, so when it comes to Escobar's proposal, everyone sees that he is the strongest, so they just cater to it and say what they should do next.
At that time, the U.S. government got the news and was really nervous for a while. After all, if these drug lord groups really united and organized hundreds of thousands of armed personnel, by then, it would no longer be a drug war, but a war!
This was definitely not a good thing for the U.S. government, which was surging with anti-war sentiments at the time.
But later, I discovered that this so-called golden circle was just a fake. So I didn't care.
After hearing this, Kai was also very emotional.
Socialism is better, it doesn’t have such nonsense at all.
"The situation is complicated now... Our Chicago police have no ability to interfere. I will let the DEA take over. You can take a vacation first. This matter is not over!" Cooper told everyone to leave the case very forcefully, and then left alone. He left feeling relaxed.
If the Golden Circle is really resurrected, then this matter is out of their hands in Chicago.
In the past, Director Cooper wouldn't have cared about this and would have snatched the case as long as it was a case. After all, a case represents merit, not to mention such a big case, but something is a little different recently. There has been too much trouble in Chicago recently, and Chief Cooper doesn't want to bring trouble on himself.
Marcus and Mike opened their mouths, trying to stop Director Cooper, but in the end they remained silent. There is no way, the level difference is too big, if Theresa is here, they will definitely mess around to catch the case, after all, Marcus's sister Sydney is still involved.
More importantly, the things involved here... they really can't figure it out. Marcus and Mike both consider themselves to be fearless people, but they are still a little timid in the face of these 'Terminators', hell, even normal humans are not counted, so how can they play this?
In short, the only way they can think of now is to get Sydney to withdraw from the case.
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Kai didn't sleep all night. After all, the things in this case were so shocking. In the end, even the CIA was alerted. When Colombia was anti-drug, the CIA actually participated in part of the operation. Of course, they were not for anti-drugs, but to ensure that Colombia would not be Red.
The 1980s was a critical period for the struggle for hegemony between the United States and the Soviet Union. Countries in South America were also the focus of competition between the United States and the Soviet Union. Especially for the United States, South America was their backyard and an economic colony. Naturally, it was impossible for the United States to let the United States Step in, Cuba's lessons are enough for them.
Therefore, the CIA's main local goal is to ensure that Colombia does not fall to the socialist camp. At that time, there were really not many rebels in Colombia, and nine out of ten of them were under the banner of socialism.
The CIA was also involved in the operation against Colombian drug lords at the time, and it also knew about the Golden Circle. But the problem is that what they don't know is that this organization that never existed at all has come to life. This is a big deal.
As the saying goes, South America is the back garden of the United States. But now there is an organization in the back garden that they didn't know about before, that is, the CIA has failed in its duties. They must understand it. Of course, it is unknown whether there is any reason for taking credit.
Anyway, from the beginning of their establishment, the biggest enemies of several major law enforcement agencies in the United States have never been external, but their internal counterparts. After all, Congress only allocates so much money every year. If you have more, I will have less. Therefore, if you want more funding, you must be more powerful than other departments.
At the same time, in addition to the Chicago police, the FBI, CIA, and Department of Homeland Security were all vying for the three "Terminator" wrecks. These three departments all had their own scientific research capabilities, so it was impossible not to rob them. If the DEA didn't have any decent scientific research capabilities, they would still have to grab it.
This chaos did not subside until the expo was about to open on the third day.
Kai must return as a member of the police special operations team for this expo.
However, Kai did not stay in one place on standby like other colleagues. He was named by the president for retinue. Naturally, the Chicago police were not embarrassed about this and directly agreed.
So during the opening ceremony, Kai was lucky enough to be on the podium, but not in front, but on standby behind the scenes.
So, he met the bitter and resentful Banning again.
Seeing Kai yawning profusely, Banning looked very uncomfortable. Banning is a person who regards his responsibilities as more important than his life. So he hates people who neglect their duties, like Kai. In Banning's view, Kai has the word "unprofessional" written all over him. If such a person were in his team, he would kick him out immediately. This kind of person has no qualifications to protect the president.
However, Kai didn't care much. He didn't want to come at first. He was almost annoyed to death by those bureaucrats these days. This group of people asked the same questions over and over again, acting as if Kai was the person behind the three Terminators. I haven't had a good night's sleep in the past few days. If he had time now, he really wanted to run away in the command car and take a nap. Who wants to follow the president everywhere like a fool?
The opening ceremony was grand, but that was all. Tony, a playboy, didn't do anything fancy and just followed the procedures honestly.
This pleases many people who are familiar with Tony Stark's nature.
This guy is so out-of-the-box that he may give people a big surprise at any time, but for many politicians, these surprises are completely unnecessary. After all, no one wants to come all the way here to do the background.
Whenever Tony Stark causes trouble, he is the one who steals the show!
This doesn't work!
Did they come here just to see Tony, a playboy, show off? If this is the case, you might as well read the newspaper. The content in the newspaper is much more exciting than this!
But just when everyone thought Tony was not causing trouble this time, the music suddenly started playing!
Tony directly grabbed the microphone from the host and shouted emotionally: "Ladies and gentlemen! Let's do something different!"
After saying that, dry ice suddenly sprayed around the opening ceremony stage.
Before the dignitaries on the stage could figure out what was going on, they saw the backstage suddenly crack, revealing the stairs below. Then, accompanied by dynamic music, a model wearing Victoria lingerie and angel wings took a catwalk down the stairs. Walked out.
There was an uproar, and then everyone stood up, clapped wildly, and whistled.
Only the politicians and celebrities who were still on the stage felt very embarrassed. They could only show a fake smile and clap along with the music, but they couldn't do anything else. Such a serious occasion suddenly turned into a lingerie show, and they didn't know how to deal with it. In private, they really don't mind admiring those beautiful bodies.
But the problem is that now in public, if they reveal their true nature, it will really become a joke. What made them even more angry was that they didn't know how to leave... After the stage cracked, they were blocked from leaving the scene.
When Banning saw this scene, he almost drew his gun and rushed out. After all, this situation is completely outside of the procedures they knew in advance. This kind of unexpected situation is the most annoying situation for security personnel. There are too many uncertainties. For example, what if someone among those Motts is up to something evil?
Of course, this is unlikely to happen. Those ladies have very little fabric on their bodies, so it is unlikely that they are hiding any dangerous items.
But what if?
Of course, it's a good thing he didn't rush out, otherwise tomorrow's front page headlines would be very lively.
"Tell me how to get Mr. President out of there!" Banning grabbed the stage manager angrily and kept asking him to let the president go.
"It will take a few minutes to follow the process. Now is the time when attention is highest. If Mr. President leaves, it will affect the effect." The person in charge is the planner of the Victoria's Secret show. Of course, they can't let such good publicity go. If the opportunity were left in the past, who could invite the president to the Victoria's Secret show? What's more, he is now a guest performer.
"Fuck! I don't care about the process! You listen to me, now, immediately, immediately! Let the president come back here, otherwise, I will arrest you for endangering the president's safety!" Banning doesn't care about this. Damn it, his job is to protect the president! Stand aside for everything else!
The person in charge had his head pressed against his, and he swallowed. In the end, he still didn't have the guts to refuse. He really wanted to use the president's influence to help Victoria's Secret promote public opinion, but in comparison, his life was more important.
