Carolos Lehder, who served over 30 years in a U.S. prison, once owned a luxurious hotel, which had caged lions and a large ...

At the peak of his power, infamous Medellín cartel boss Pablo Escobar brought in an estimated $420 million a week in revenue, making him easily one of the wealthiest drug lords in history.

For years, the Medellín Cartel was the most powerful and influential drug cartel in the world. Led by Pablo Escobar, the drug ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

On its heyday, the Medellín Cartel led by Pablo Escobar was characterized by its use of money and power to stock private zoos ...

Robert Mazur is a former government agent who investigated drug-money laundering for the US Drug Enforcement Administration, the Internal Revenue Service intelligence division, and the Customs ...

According to journalist Ioan Grillo, the Medellín cartel smuggled most of its cocaine straight over the Florida coast. "It was a nine-hundred-mile run from the north coast of Colombia and was ...