Thursday 21 November 2013

Drug Lords that inspired our thriller

Most Powerful Drug Lords

Pablo Escobar

Pablo Escobar was said to be the most notorious drug lord of around the last 20 years. He was a Columbian drug lord and cocaine trafficker, head of the Medellin Cartel in Columbia. He had a short life, dying at the age of 44 after being shot by Columbian National Police in 1993. At the height of the Medellin Cartel's power they were smuggling 15 tons of cocaine a day, worth more than half a billion dollars into the US. He has an estimated fortune of $25 billion. 

"There can only be one king"
"Sometimes I am god, if I say a man dies, he dies that same day"
"There are two hundred million idiots, manipulated by a million intelligent men"


Khun Sa (“The Opium King”)

Involved in Heroin and operated in Burma. He is famed as the world king of heroin, producing almost one third of the worlds heroin supply. He lived a luxurious life until he died of natural causes in 2007. 







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