THE DRUG TRAFFICKING EMPIRE OF COLOMBIA

 

-- The story of how a country went from having a footstep in the door of world drug trafficking to a competitive advantage.
The Drugs that Colombia is Notorious for Exporting:
Marijuana appears as Colombia's first experience of exporting illegal drugs (late 1960's).
Cocaine comes on to the scene a few years after marijuana and makes Colombia the infamous drug traffickers that they are still known as today (late 1970's).
Heroin allows drug lords to make almost twice as much as they can exporting cocaine (1990's).
How and Why Colombia has been able to sustain their drug empire:
The How of it all......
The Why of it all......
The How and Why combine to set the basis for the reasoning as to what gives Colombia a competitive advantage in the drug trafficking industry......
The power and brains behind the drug trafficking; the infamous Colombian Drug Cartels:
  The ruthless Medellin Cartel waged open war against the Colombian government.
The more subtle Cali Cartel have learned that there is more trouble in fighting then laying low and strategically placing people in power.
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