Oficina de Envigado
The Oficina de Envigado has evolved from a debt collection agency for Pablo Escobar to one of the most important criminal actors in Medellín.
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AUC
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30 AUG 2021
Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria was the pioneer in industrial-scale cocaine trafficking.
COLOMBIA
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10 MAR 2021
The central Colombian department of Antioquia has been the scene of four massacres over the first two months of 2021,…
COLOMBIA
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4 NOV 2019
Authorities in Colombia have captured a crime boss who began as a gang leader on Medellin's outskirts and came to…
COLOMBIA
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4 OCT 2019
The tense calm that had persisted for six years in the town of Bello, near Medellín in Colombia, has been…
CHILE
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2 SEP 2019
A Colombian gang leader has been accused of operating a "gota a gota" loansharking network in Chile -- evidence that…
COCAINE
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11 JUN 2019
Members of some of Colombia’s most notorious crime organizations teamed up to traffic about three tons of cocaine, revealing a…
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