Name: The Rise of the Cali Drug Cartel | Narco Wars
Uploaded: 2021-03-01T18:20:19.000Z
Duration: 5 min 37 s
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JIM SHEDD: Gilberto Rogriuez Orejuela and Miguel Rodriguez

that was totally different than the other cartels.

They looked at it more as a business to expand,

and they were involved in the cost versus profit.

You have to learn who your enemy is, otherwise you're

And I , studied over a long period of time,

the Rodriguez Orejuelas, and they were very smart,

NEWS ANNOUNCER: And they own Cali's main passion,

JIM SHEDD: So, they were to be respected.

Yes, they were dopers and traffickers, but you

You underestimate people of that caliber, you're doomed.

WILLIAM RODRIGUEZ: My name is William Rodriguez.

I'm the son and nephew of the Cali cartel founders, Miguel

There was a strategic alliance between my dad,

They had different ways to see how we should fight

Escobar wanted to do it through violence.

My dad Miguel was called El Senor, the Sir.

My uncle Gilberto built an economic empire.

He wanted to fulfill his dream with my dad,

People think that bandits don't have values.

Violence was the last step to resolve the problems,

because dead people don't pay what they owe.

are forcing modern business methods on a violent trade.

NARRATOR: The cartel forced its employees to fill

Cartel hopefuls had to enter the names and addresses

JIM SHEDD: They had to know who your family members were,

where were they, what did they own, didn't own.

Cars, planes, automobiles, trains, anything.

They had to know all about you before you

WILLIAM RODRIGUEZ: The moving of the cocaine,

First, they did it into little planes into the Caribbean

Then they shifted in to doing it through Mexico.

NARRATOR: To handle the ever larger shipments of cocaine

used container ships, sometimes even loading

NARRATOR: It is a marriage of convenience

between Colombia's Cali cartel and the Italian mafia.

When the Cold War ended, a new war began.

NARRATOR: The problem of cocaine in Russia

NARRATOR: From Moscow to Madrid, from Rome to Tokyo,

NARRATOR: In raw profit, it now outstrips

WILLIAM RODRIGUEZ: They had so much power in those moments,

they thought they were on the top of the world.

JIM SHEDD: They were planning to eventually become

WILLIAM RODRIGUEZ: In the narcos cassettes,

you can see the power that Miguel and Gilberto had,

because this guy is saying you have the future

If you give this money, you will have a President.

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