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unusual facts about drug lord


Le Marginal

Drug lord Mecacci is desperate to get rid of Jordan and arranges an incident which leads to Jordan's disciplinary transfer.


Blue Magic

The name of a high quality brand of heroin marketed by drug lord Frank Lucas, which later inspired the film American Gangster and the song of the same name by Jay-Z.

Francisca Cortés Picazo

Francisca Cortés Picazo (born 20 May 1955), more commonly known as "La Paca", is a Spanish drug lord, and matriarch of the Romani drug clan known as "La Paca" clan.

King of New York

Frank White, a drug lord, is riding into New York in a limousine after being released from Sing Sing.

Kung Fu High School

The book explores the mind of a young girl named Jen, who along with her brother Cue, and legendary martial artist cousin, Jimmy Chang, attend Kung Fu High School, where a powerful drug kingpin named Ridley pits all students against each other in order to maintain control over his corrupt business he runs using the students he controls.

Mickey Munday

Following a meeting with drug lord Pablo Escobar in 1981, Munday and Mermelstein put an end to the theft of tools and spare parts left behind at the Colombian air strips by Mickey and his fellow pilots.

Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo

Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo (born January 8, 1946) is a convicted Mexican drug lord who formed the Guadalajara Cartel in the 1980s, and controlled almost all of the drug trafficking in Mexico and the corridors along the Mexico–United States border.

Paul Shenar

He also portrayed the murderous Bolivian drug lord Alejandro Sosa in Brian De Palma's 1983 version of Scarface.


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Allegations of CIA drug trafficking

Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, known as the Godfather of the Mexican drug business and the first mexican drug lord, provided a significant amount of funding, weapons, and other aid to the Contras in Nicaragua.

Banda el Recodo

According to the 2013 court testimonies of the drug lord Jesús Enrique Rejón Aguilar (alias El Mamito), Banda el Recodo performed at several private parties held by leaders of Los Zetas drug cartel for a sum of US$250,000.

Beto Benites

In 2011 he played the part of Don Luis Sandoval, the drug lord in Olivier Megaton's film Colombiana, starring Zoe Saldana.

Brian Oldfield

Oldfield also starred in the 1989 film Savage Instinct, later renamed They Call Me Macho Woman! as Mongo, the crazed drug lord.

Donald Barrios

Donald Barrios is a wealthy American businessman, in addition to being the connection between the former United States' Drug Enforcement Administration field agent Oscar Danilo Blandon Reyes and Juan Norwin Meneses Cantarero, a prominent Nicaraguan drug lord.

El Chino Ántrax

On 8 January 2014, the U.S. Department of the Treasury sanctioned the drug lord under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (Kingpin Act), which froze his assets he may have had in the U.S. and virtually prohibited U.S. citizens from carrying out financial or commercial deals with him.

In one of his pictures, the drug lord appears alongside Paris Hilton.

In 2008, he founded Los Ántrax with another drug lord known as René Velázquez (alias "Sargento Phoenix Ántrax"), who was arrested by the Mexican Army that year and sent to jail in Aguaruto, Sinaloa.

Francisco Arellano Félix

Francisco Javier Arellano Félix (11 December 1969), former Mexican drug lord, now imprisoned.

Francisco Rafael Arellano Félix (24 October 1949 – 18 October 2013), former Mexican drug lord, dead.

Germán Castro Caycedo

On the one hand the story of a gypsy witch, and on the other the life of a poor-well-known Colombian drug lord, Castro Caycedo uses their stories as a base to conduct the reader on a trip showing how the cocaine traffic affected the society and economy of a small town (Fredonia), the Mexican Secret Police's brutality and corruption, and the United States' active role in the birth and expansion of drug production in Colombia.

Montana Management

Not coincidentally, "Montana Management, Inc." was also the name of a money-laundering front company controlled by fictional drug lord Tony Montana (Al Pacino) in the 1983 film Scarface.

Out Where the Buses Don't Run

It featured guest star Bruce McGill as an eccentric retired police officer attempting to aid Metro-Dade detectives James "Sonny" Crocket and Ricardo Tubbs in the search for a missing drug lord.

Pusher 3

Milo, an aging Serbian drug lord, attends a meeting of Narcotics Anonymous.

Sebastián Marroquín

Sebastián Marroquín (Born 1978, Medellin, Colombia) is the son of Colombian Cocaine drug lord Pablo Escobar.

Sister Street Fighter

After all of his minions are defeated, the drug lord himself battles Hóng-Lóng, wearing a steel claw in imitation of Han, the villain from Enter the Dragon (1973).