Columbian Drug Trade

C.D.TBy Reilly Lemerond

Drug trade

histroy.

• Since the 1970's, Colombia has been home to some of the most mean and suphisticated drug trafficking organizations in the world. What started as a small cocaine smuggling business has, in the last thirty yearsthis information made people scared and, blossomed into an enormous multi-national cocaine empire. Traffickers today have enough capital under their control to build sophisticated smuggling equipment, such as a high tech submarine that was recently discovered by the Colombian National Police. Colombian cocaine traffickers had hired engineering experts from Russia and the United States to help with the design of the submarine, which apparently would have been used to secretly ship large quantities of cocaine to the United States.

• Traffickers started out with much more modest goals. In the mid-1970s, marijuana traffickers in Colombia began exporting small quantities of cocaine to the United States hidden in suitcases. At that point, cocaine could be processed for $1500/kilo in jungle labs and could be sold on the streets of America for as much as $50,000/kilo

Drugs –Drugs during the trade included

• Weed or pot• Heroin • Cocaine • And much more…

Drug Money

• The Colombian drug

trade brought over 4

million dollars

• It only took 1 million to

process the drugs

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Drug lord Pablo

• Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria (December 1, 1949 – December 2, 1993) was a Colombian drug lord.wow what a life He was an elusive cocaine trafficker and a rich and successful criminal.He owned numerous luxury residences, automobiles, and even airplanes. In 1986, he had a short-lived career in Colombian politics.

Drugs in spanish

• LAS DROGAS

Weed in SpanishMALA HIERBA

Cocaine in SPANISH•COCAINA

Heroin in Spanish

• HERIONA

Colombian in spanish• colombiano

Trade in spanish• comercio

Addiction in spanish is

• adicción

Money in spanish is

•dinero

Illness in spanish is

• enfermedad

American in spanish is

• americano• americano• americano• americano• americano

Why people do drugs

• For some it’s an escape from a horrible life away to be alone for a while

• Others it because they think its cool

• Also makes them feel

AMAZING!!!!!

Source pages

• Google translate.com• My pictures.com• Kids against drugs.com • My source.com• Info.com• Colombia.com• History channle.com