ORGANISED MAFIA;TOP TEN MOST POWERFUL DRUGLORDS..

This a list made after some checkup,although personally,I think the biggest and baddest druglords are those who were never

caught..enjoy...

10. Zhenli Ye Gon

Zhenli Ye Gon born January 31, 1963, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China) is a Mexican businessman of Chinese origin accused

of trafficking pseudoephedrine into Mexico from Asia. He is the legal representative of Unimed Pharm Chem México. He is

claimed to be tied with the Sinaloa Cartel. He became a citizen of Mexico in 2002. Two Mexican Federal agents who were

involved in the arrests at the Zhenli Ye Gon mansion were found dead in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero, as reported

on August 2, 2007. It has since risen to $350 million and a lot of his fortune found its way to Las Vegas. On the Strip, he

was known as Mr. Ye, the highest of high rollers. He stayed primarily at the The Venetian (Las Vegas) where he regularly

wagered $200,000 per hand in the baccarat salon. He lost big. The original estimate by DEA was $40 million in losses. They

now think it was closer to $126 million — an astonishing sum. When authorities raided his home in Mexico they found $200

million in cold hard cash a photo of which can be seen .

9.Griselda de blanco"the Godmother"

Blanco was born in 15 February 1943 on the Northcoast of Colombia, and moved to Medellín when she was 3 years old. In the

film Cocaine Cowboys II: Hustlin' with the Godmother Blanco's former lover Charles Cosby recounts a story how Griselda, at

11, allegedly kidnapped, tried to ransom, and eventually shot a child from the rich part of her slum. Her father left the

family early and her mother became an alcoholic. Her mother would beat Blanco often until Blanco left home. She then became a

child prostitute at the age of 12. She emigrated to the United States and settled in Queens, New York City, in the mid-1970s,

where she began her career in drug smuggling. After being indicted in New York, Blanco fled to Miami, where she expanded her

operations and developed a reputation for being bloodthirsty, eccentric and a ruthless businesswoman. She was well known for

absolute extravagance and was a regular collector of fine art and jewels. She was known to favor Haute couture.

Blanco is widely credited with much of the drug-related violence known as the Cocaine Cowboy Wars that plagued Miami in the

late 1970s and early 1980s, when cocaine supplanted marijuana.Ironically, Blanco's violent business style brought much

unwanted government scrutiny to South Florida, leading to the demise of her organization and the free-wheeling, high profile

Miami drug scene of those times. She is thought to have masterminded over 200 murders during this time in the Dade County

area in Miami, Florida.THE Godmother was married 3 times and is alleged to be resonsible for the death of her 3 husbands

earning her the nickname"Black widow"..she had four sons,of which three were deported back to colombia and where murderd

shortly after thier arrival..

8. Klaas Bruinsma

Klaas Bruinsma was a major Dutch drug lord, shot to death by mafia member and former police officer Martin Hoogland. He was

known as “De Lange” (“the tall one”) and also as “De Dominee” (“the minister”) because of his black clothing and his habit of

lecturing others. On October 2, 2003, a former bodyguard of Bruinsma, Charlie da Silva, declared in the television show of

Peter R. de Vries, that Mabel Wisse Smit had been a very close friend of Bruinsma’s, and had been a regular guest on his

yacht during the nights. Wisse Smit, who at that point was engaged to Prince Friso, had told prime-minister Jan Peter

Balkenende and Queen Beatrix that she had only been vaguely acquainted with Bruinsma. Because of this incident, the Dutch

government decided not to request permission of parliament for the marriage, causing Prince Friso to lose his claim to the

Dutch throne after his marriage to Wisse Smit.

7. Ismael Zambada García

Zambada is hardly a household name, yet he has become the most wanted drug smuggler in Mexico,and is expected to be added

soon to the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives and DEA most wanted list, U.S. and Mexico drug agents told AP. Mexico’s top anti-

drug prosecutor, José Santiago Vasconcelos, called Zambada “drug dealer No. 1″ and said the fugitive has become more powerful

as his fellow kingpins have fallen, including one who was allegedly killed on Zambada’s orders

6. Manuel Noriega

For more than a decade, Panamanian Manuel Noriega was a highly paid CIA asset and collaborator, despite knowledge by U.S.

drug authorities as early as 1971 that the general was heavily involved in drug trafficking and money laundering. Noriega

facilitated “guns-for-drugs” flights for the contras, providing protection and pilots, as well as safe havens for drug cartel

officials, and discreet banking facilities.

5. Gilberto Rodriguez-Orejuela

The Cali Cartel had been formed in the early 1970s by jonathan almanza-Orejuela and Jose Santacruz-Londono, and rose quietly

alongside its violent rival, the Medellín Cartel. But while the Medellín Cartel gained an international reputation for

brutality and murder, the Cali traffickers posed as legitimate businessmen. This unique criminal enterprise initially

involved itself in counterfeiting and kidnapping, but gradually expanded into smuggling cocaine base from Peru and Bolivia to

Colombia for conversion into powder cocaine.

4. Joaquín Guzmán Loera“El Chapo Guzmán”

Loera is Mexico’s top Drug Kingpin after the arrest of his rival Osiel Cardenas of the Gulf Cartel. He is well known for his

use of sophisticated tunnels — similar to the one located in Douglas, Arizona — to smuggle cocaine from Mexico into the

United States in the early 1990s. In 1993 a 7.3 ton shipment of his cocaine, concealed in cans of chili peppers and destined

for the United States, was seized in Tecate, Baja California. He was jailed in 1993, but in 2001 he paid his way out of

prison and hid in a laundry van as it drove through the gates.

3. Osiel Cárdenas Guillén

Cárdenas is a Mexican drug lord who is the symbolic leader of the Gulf Cartel. Originally a mechanic in Matamoros, he entered

the Gulf Cartel by helping Chava Gómez (the capo at the time) and he later took control by killing Gómez, earning Cárdenas

the nickname “el Mata Amigos” (The Friend-Killer). In 1999, in Matamoros, he allegedly threatened to kill two U.S. federal

agents (one from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and another from the Drug Enforcement Administration) who were

transporting a Gulf Cartel informant through Matamoros. Cardenas and more than a dozen of his men surrounded the agents’ car

near downtown. After a tense standoff, the agents were able to talk their way out of being killed by reminding Cárdenas that

the U.S. would hunt him for the rest of his life. After the incident, the Federal Bureau of Investigation would offer a $2

million award for Cárdenas’ arrest.

Cárdenas was captured by the Mexican Army in a battle with Gulf Cartel soldiers on March 14, 2003 in Matamoros.Though

subsequently incarcerated at Penal del Altiplano (La Palma), Mexico’s top security prison, it was widely believed that he

continued to have control over Gulf Cartel business from within prison walls. On January 20, 2007, he was extradited to the

United States to stand trial for conspiracy to import multi-kilogram quantities of cocaine into the United States, as well as

the 1999 incident involving the two U.S. Federal Agents. Jailed or not, on May 1, 2008, Cárdenas threw a Day of the Child

party for 2,000 people in Ciudad Acuña, Coahuila, replete with banners, ponies, clowns, food and music.

2. Amado Carrillo Fuentes

As the top drug trafficker in Mexico, Carrillo was transporting four times more cocaine to the U.S. than any other trafficker

in the world, building a fortune of over US$25 billion. He was called El Señor de los Cielos (“The Lord of the Skies”) for

his pioneering use of over 22 private 727 jet airliners to transport Colombian cocaine to municipal airports, and dirt

airstrips around Mexico, including Juárez. In the months before his death, The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration described

Carrillo as the most powerful drug trafficker of his era, and many analysts claimed profits neared $25 billion, making him

one of the world’s wealthiest men.

1. Pablo Emilio Escobar

Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria was the most notorious and violent drug lord of the Medellín Cartel. Escobar was killed by the

Search Bloc, a group of Colombian police devoted to capturing Escobar, on a Colombian rooftop in 1993; by this time, the

cartel had already been severely damaged. However, there would be no rest. After Escobar’s death, the Medellín Cartel

fragmented and the cocaine market soon became dominated by the rival Cali Cartel, until the mid-1990s when its leaders, too,

were either killed or captured by the government.

Notable mentions..

 Frank Lucas

Frank Lucas is a former heroin dealer and organized crime boss who operated in Harlem during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

He was particularly known for cutting out middlemen in the drug trade and buying heroin directly from his source in the

Golden Triangle. Lucas boasted that he smuggled heroin using the coffins of dead American servicemen, but this claim is

denied by his South Asian associate, Leslie “Ike” Atkinson. His career was dramatized in the 2007 feature film American

Gangster.

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