Introducing Business Wars: Drug Cartels

American Scandal

Wondery

True Crime, Exhibit C, Society & Culture, History, Documentary, History Daily, American History Tellers, Lindsay Graham

4.6 • 18.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Pablo Escobar is a household name, known for his reign of terror in Colombia’s cocaine wars. But it wasn’t always that way. The leader of one of the world’s most infamous drug cartels fought his way to the top throughout the 1970s and 80s. Escobar’s Medellin cartel was determined to extinguish its main rival — the Cali cartel, but with billions of dollars at stake, trade disputes quickly turned into actual battles with body counts. The new season of Business Wars goes deep into the battles between the Cali and Medellin cartels, who will stop at nothing to win market dominance.

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0:00.0	It's 1978 in Miami and the infamous Mutiny Club is the hottest spot in town and the
0:06.6	epicenter of the cocaine trade.
0:09.1	But behind the glamorous parties and opulent lifestyles, a violent drug war to own the booming industry is raging.
0:16.0	Business Wars is a podcast about the biggest rivalries of all time, and the new three-part series
0:21.3	drug cartels dives into the war between the two top cartels in
0:25.2	Colombia.
0:26.2	Combining the complex business acumen of a corporation and the calculated violence of the
0:30.8	mafia, the Cali and Mediiene cartels ignited a ruthless fight to extinguish the other
0:36.3	and dominate the growing cocaine trade in the US, which in 1984 was estimated to be over
0:41.5	70 tons of cocaine every year.
0:44.0	This conflict affected the entire Western Hemisphere and claimed countless lives.
0:49.0	You're about to hear a clip from Business Wars Drug Cartels.
0:52.0	While you're listening, follow Business Wars on the Wondery app,
0:55.0	or wherever you get your podcasts. It's June 3rd, 1989, it's June 3rd,
1:05.0	It's June 3rd, 1989, above the Magdalena River Valley, Columbia.
1:16.1	Jorge Salcedo sits in the co-pilot seat of a Cessna airplane soaring above the lush river
1:21.2	basin below.
1:23.0	Salcedo peers out the window,
1:25.0	taking in the dense canopy of trees.
1:28.0	After a moment, Salcedo checks the time.
1:30.0	It's just before 11 a.m.
1:32.0	He swiveles in his seat and looks back at a man perched in the back of the plane.
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