Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar appears in this file picture when Escobar belonged to the Colombian Congress in1983 T(Reuters)
Two previous CIA agents have actually supposedly found the location a sunken submarine used by late drug kingpin Pablo Escobar’s Medell ín Cartel to smuggle cocaine from Colombia to Puerto Rico.
In video footage shot for Discovery UK, the 2 ex-CIA agents – Doug Laux and Ben Smith– are checking out the waters off Colombia’s Caribbean coast after getting an idea that a person of Escobar’s cocaine- filled submarines decreased there.
While the clip of the scuba divers reveals them digging up absolutely nothing more than a metal box, the 2 previous agents think that the moving seabed and regular typhoons that wreck the area might have moved or obscured the wreckage.
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“There are historical reports that suggest that narcos when confronted by the Navy or the Coast Guard dumped all the money and drugs overboard and fled,”Smith stated in a clip published on YouTube. “Maybe it isn’t a submarine but I can’t overlook the possibility that it could be one of those things.”
Smith included: “I think it’s worth the time to go check it out.”
While he began as a smalltime criminal taking automobiles and offering contraband cigarettes, Escobar moved into the cocaine sell the 1970 s and by the middle of the 1980 s had actually ended up being the wealthiest– and most infamous– drug capo worldwide, with his Medell ín Cartel generating a supposed $22 billion a year and Forbes Magazine noting him as the world’s seventh wealthiest individual in 1989.
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Deep political divides, a weak main federal government, widespread corruption and a decades-long civil uprising by left-wing guerrillas, all extended Colombia’s legislators and military forces thin. Paired with the development of the multinational drug trade, it resembled a best storm to empower Escobar’s Medell ín cartel to thrive.
Escobar was likewise a Robin Hood figure is his home town of Medell ín as he developed real estate jobs for the bad, soccer fields and other facilities jobs. Escobar was so popular in the nation that he was even chosen to the Colombian Congress– a relocation that assisted him prevent extradition to the United States.
The law ultimately overtook Escobar when he was assassinated on a Medell ín roof in 1993 throughout a joint U.S.-Colombian operation.
While the death El Patr ón saw his drug trafficking company enter into a tailspin as grass wars broke out for control over the company and its dissenting group with high levels of violence not easing off till a minimum of the early 2000 s, exactly what took place to Escobar’s fortune still stays a secret.
In2009, $8 million was found in a concealed complex deep in the Colombian jungle, however that is just a percentage of Escobar’s supposed $70 billion fortune that still stays at big.
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