The cartel is believed to have employed the services of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), a right-wing paramilitary organization internationally classified as a terrorist organization, to protect the cartel’s drug routes, its drug laboratories, and its members and associates.
During a large storm one night over Rhode Island, a Colombian cartel plane is struck by lightning in mid-flight and crashes.
Local residents have made fortunes reselling cocaine bundles which wash ashore after going overboard from Colombian drug runner speedboats.
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