pinapaalis ni duterte ang mga kano at mapuputol ang ugnayan..sa china siya didikit ngayon no.1 ang chinese sa mga drugs.
Wala po ang China sa malalaking nagsusupply ng drugs.
Top 10 largest Opium Producing Countries in the World
Ranking Country Cultivated Hectares
1 Afghanistan 223,500
2 Myanmar 55,800
3 Mexico 14,340
4 India 11,800
5 Laos 6,120
6 Pakistan 2,250
7 Colombia 285
8 Iran 95
9 Turkey 90
10 Thailand 80
7 Countries Where Drug Lords Lord It Over
1. Afghanistan
With the fall of the Taliban in 2001, the drug lords of Afghanistan have slowly worked their way towards becoming the world’s top producer of opium today. More than 90% of the world’s opium is produced in the country, a major part of The Golden Crescent, the name given to Asia’s principal area of illicit opium production covering Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan.
opium-poppies-afghanistanIt is believed that the opium trade flourishes in Afghanistan because Afghan government officials are said to be involved in at least 70 percent of opium trafficking in the country. Experts even say that more than a dozen provincial governors have a direct hand in the production and distribution of opium. But one of the most serious allegations of Afghan government complicity in the country’s drug trade was made by Thomas Schweich, former U.S. State Department Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs.
In a New York Times article dated July 27, 2007, Schweich alleges that the government of President Hamid Karzai is protecting opium production. As serious as these allegations are, the US military, in Schweich’s opinion, look the other way and treat the drug trade as not being central to its anti-terrorism operations.
2. Burma (Myanmar)
Burma or Myanmar is a pillar of the so-called Golden Triangle, one of Asia’s two main areas of illicit opium production which also include Laos, Vietnam, and Thailand. It is the world’s second largest producer of illicit opium. Run by a military junta, Burma’s government has been on paper trying to eradicate opium production, but its senior officials have been persistently reported to be involved in the drugs trade, and that drug money continues to pour into government coffers.
Historically, the country has been dominated by larger-than life drug lords, the most infamous of them Khun Sa, aka “The Opium King”. Khun Sa produced as much as three quarters of the world’s heroin supply at one point, and was known for his ruthlessness that earned him the DEA sobriquet “Prince of Death”. Although he surrendered to the Burmese government in 1996 after decades at the top of the illegal opium trade, Khun Sa was never extradited to the United States to face drug charges, and reportedly lived a life of luxury in Rangoon until his death in 2007.
Today, the Burmese drug market is dominated by the United Wa State Army. Made up of ethnic fighters who control areas along the country’s eastern border with Thailand, it is said to be the largest drug-producing organization in Southeast Asia, and is believed to be an ally of the country’s ruling military junta.
3. Mexico
You know a country has a very serious drug trade problem when one of its most-wanted drug traffickers makes it to the Forbes list of the richest persons in the world. Joaquin “Shorty” Guzman, leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel in Mexico, was just recently listed by Forbes as the 701st richest person in the world with a net worth estimated at $1 billion.
The Guzman-led Sinaloa cartel is just one of the four major drug cartels wreaking havoc in Mexico, the major transit point for over 90% of America’s cocaine supply. With the dismantling of Colombia’s Medellín and Cali cartels, Mexico’s Sinaloa, Juarez, Tijuana and the Gulf cartels have become the predominant smugglers and wholesale distributors of South American cocaine and Mexico-produced marijuana, methamphetamine and heroin. These cartels have grown increasingly wealthy and powerful over the years, and if their ongoing war against the Mexican and US government is any indication, have become increasingly violent as well.
Since the beginning of 2008, more than 7,000 people have been killed in the drug-fueled violence that has practically turned some parts of Mexico into a virtual war zone. Killing civilians and beheading rivals from other cartels, policemen and soldiers have become commonplace, and the efforts of the US and Mexican governments to put them down hasn’t yielded any significant results just yet. Equipped with grenade launchers, automatic weapons, body armor, Kevlar helmets, these cartels are some of the most sophisticated and dangerous organized criminal groups ever faced by the US government.
4. Colombia
The Medellin and Cali cartels, which have come close to making Colombia a narco-state in the 1990s, may no longer exist, but Colombia remains the world’s top producer of cocaine, with 70% of the world’s coca leaf grown there, and approximately 90% of the world’s cocaine processing market.
For all the successes of Plan Colombia, the US-led counter narcotics operation in the country, Colombia continues its reign at the top of the cocaine trade due to the fact that smaller and more nimble organizations have sprung in the Medellin and Cali cartels’ place, most notably the Norte del Valle Cartel, or North Valley Cartel. Widely considered as one of the most powerful organizations in the illegal drugs trade, it is said to be employing the services of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), a right-wing paramilitary organization, to protect its cartel’s drug routes, laboratories and its members and associates.
Other existing players in Colombia’s drug trade include the smaller North Coast Cartel and the Marxist guerrilla group FARC, which has become increasingly involved in the drug trade, controlling farming, production and exportation of cocaine in those areas of Colombia under their control.
5. Peru
Peru is the second biggest producer of cocaine in the world, next only to Colombia. Historically, Peruvian farmers have been growing coca, the raw ingredient for cocaine, since before Spain colonized the country centuries ago. They continue to do so, considering that coca itself is legal, but making cocaine from it is not. Nevertheless, studies show that as much as 90 percent of that coca goes to the production of cocaine, a fact which contributes greatly to the growth of a multibillion-dollar shadow economy in Peru.
Further complicating Peru’s drug problems is the resurgence of a supposedly inactive Shining Path, a Maoist organization whose guerilla war with the government has claimed the lives of more than 70,000, as a major force in the Peruvian drug trade. Taking their cue from Colombia’s FARC and AUC, the group has now fully evolved into an illicit drug enterprise, protecting drug smugglers, extorting taxes from farmers and operating its own cocaine laboratories with an efficiency and ruthlessness that is the unmistakable trademark of an elite drug trafficking organization.
6. Bolivia
Ranking third behind Colombia and Peru in cocaine production is Bolivia, which, according to a recent United Nations report, has allocated 28,900 hectares of its land to coca production in 2007, a figure that is more than double than what Bolivian law allows. This leniency towards coca growing, however, is hardly surprising, considering that the sitting president, Evo Morales, did not only farm coca himself during his youth, but was also head of Bolivia’s coca growers association before he became president.
bolivia-cocaLast year, Bolivia under Morales has been blacklisted by the United States as a country which resists “international cooperation” on the drug trade, along with Burma and Venezuela. While this move by the US is largely perceived as a retaliatory political move after Morales kicked out the US Ambassador and agents of the DEA from the country, it is not entirely baseless. The production of coca in the country has grown steadily since Morales took office. And while coca itself is legal and an essential component of Bolivian culture, the legal market for the stimulant just could not absorb the ballooning production, resulting in the diversion of a large percentage of the crop to the production of cocaine.
Adding more to Bolivia’s drug woes is the fact that Bolivian drug lords have become more sophisticated and ultimately violent, churning out the illegal drug faster through state of the art laboratories, as well as starting violent turf battles that threaten to turn the country into another Mexico.
Apart from being a top cocaine producer, Bolivia is steadily assuming the role of a major transit point for cocaine shipments from Peru to Brazil.
7. The Bahamas
For such a tiny island nation like The Bahamas, it sure has a thriving illegal drugs trade. A recently released United States narcotics report has revealed that more than a dozen drug-trafficking organizations are operating in this Commonwealth territory. This underlies the central role in drug smuggling that it has assumed over the last two decades, starting with Medellin Cartel cofounder Carlos Lehder’s initiative to use The Bahamas as a transit point for drugs from Colombia into the United States. Lehder, who is currently incarcerated in the US, even went to the extent of commandeering an entire Bahamian island, called Norman’s Cay, and made it his own drug fortress, where 300 kilograms of cocaine would arrive every hour.
While the current Bahamian government is closely cooperating with the US on its war against drugs, it is interesting to note that the island nation was once rocked by serious allegations that involvement in the drug trade reached the highest levels of government, with no less than the late former Prime Minister Sir Lynden Pindling allegedly receiving more than $57 million in drug money in the mid-1980s. Although a royal commission formed to investigate the accusations found no conclusive evidence to implicate Pindling, the scandal further perpetuated the idea that an entire government can be paid off, something that most drug cartels and syndicates around the world have done, and will continue doing, as long as they are in business.
Richest Drug Lord
1. Frank Lucas
Place of birth: North Carolina, United States
Net worth: $52 billion
This man was born in 1930 and was the drug "Kingpin" who constructed into this international drug market with all his business expanding from New York to the South of East Asia. He took up monopoly drug marketing from the Italian mafia. He was in the line of selling illegal drugs, heroine and more. His brand “Mean Machine” has captured lots of drug users, by which he made hefty profit.
2. Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar
Place of birth: Allahabad district, India
Net worth: $6.7 billion
Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar tops the list of richest drug lords. This Indian crime and drug lord was linked to the political bombing happened in Mumbai in 1993 , which took lives of more than 250 people. Hewas also linked to Osama Bin Laden, and the organization “Goldman Sachs of organized crime” he runs is very famous. Besides his drug operation, he still runs things like counterfeiting arms, terrorism, film industry financing, and extortion works. His substantial revenue comes from Bollywood as well.
3. Ochoa Brothers
Place of birth: Medellin, Columbia
Net worth: $6 billion
As we know Columbia is a big country in drug dealing. Let's take a look at who the richest Colombian drug lord is. Three brothers, Jorge, Juan and Fabio, who were from the upper middle class and well educated, too, were all in the line of drug selling and made a huge fortune up to $6 billion. They are known for their special team work to make revenue. They were arrested in 1991 and were out of prison in 1996. In 1999, the youngest brother was arrested again and sentenced to jail for 30 years.
4. Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela
Place of birth: Mariquita, Tolima
Net worth: $3 billion
Gilberto Orejuela is a Colombian drug lord. He has earned lots of money along with his brother by trafficking cocaine to the US during 1990s. He runs the Orejuela brothers’ drug business and is the largest supplier of cocaine to many countries, which makes him the most notorious and richest drug lord ever. He was convicted in September, 2006 for his conspiracy in money laundering and was sentenced to thirty years in federal prison.
5. Carlos Enrique Lehder Rivas
Place of birth: Armenia, Colombia
Net worth: $2.7 billion
Here comes the second Colombian drug lord on this list. Co-founder of Medellin Cartel, Rivas is the son of a German father and a Colombian mother. He used to do cocaine business, and he commandeered one small island in Bahamas, where he used to supply drugs to many places, and he also commanded the veritable drug smuggling base which has a complete set of armed troops and multiple hangers. He used the private planes for smuggling business. He was sentenced to life plus 135 years in 1987 but was offered testimony later in 1992, which makes his life sentence reduced to 55 years.
6. Rafael Caro Quintero
Place of birth: Mexico
Net worth: $650 million
Here comes the first Mexican drug lord. Rafael Caro Quintero is the oldest among his four brothers. He was primarily into the business of marijuana and he has many farms in Sonora where he can reap the plants. He also sells cocaine and methamphetamine and makes plenty of dollars from this business. In 1980, he along with his brothers ingratiated with the local government and law enforcement to such an extent that they were able to operate and function with impunity. And the only reason why that could work is that they invested a large amount of money to improve the community for various financing activities like real estate and construction projects. However, this Mexican drug lord was still sentenced to jail for 40 years in 1985.
7. George Jung
Place of birth: Boston, Massachusetts, United states
Net worth: $100 million
George Jung is one of the richest drug deallers and is well known for being portrayed by Johnny Depp in the movie “Blow” in 2001. He was a cocaine seller in the Medellin Cartel and made money when he was in power, he made lot of money and supplied cocaine to many parts of United States. He has made 100 millions at least and he bought many houses with his money instead of just storing them. He was taught coke smuggling by his cellmate Carlos Lehder while he was in prison. In November 2014, he has been slated for release.
8. Freeway Rick Ross
Place of birth: Troup, Texas, United States
Net worth: $52 million
Freeway Rick Ross, original name Ricky Donnell Ross, is known as a celebrity to be precise. His role behind the cocaine crack distribution in 1980 is true and genuine, and he was the cocaine supplier that led to the death of several millions of people in 1999, making piles of dollars out of it. He has been into drug selling since 19 years old. In fact, we can say he is the one who has created this addiction in LA. His crack factory can produce and sell drugs of 2-3 millions of dollars on a daily basis.
9. Khun SA
Place of birth: Myanmar
Net worth: $5 million
Also known as the drug lord of Myanmar, Khun SA has been into this field ever since 1974 and spent two decades minting money from drug trafficking. He covers three regions: Laos, Thailand and Myanmar, and he makes money from this field like as if no one else has made it. He has also built the largest heroine empire in this world. As he is the richest drug lord, he openly mocks at the hypocrisy of American drug war and challenges the US government to purchase his opium. He, however, surrendered to the Myanmar authorities in 1996, and what happened to him later is known by little.
10. Griselda Blanco
Place of birth: Cartagena, Colombia
Net worth: $2 million
As another Colombian drug lord and the only female on the list, Griselda Blanco is the cocaine god mother and is one of the most dangerous and vicious drug lords of all time. She was a prolific smuggler who used to run cocaine business in many places like Miami, Southern California and New York. She was known for her shipping cocaine of 150 kilograms in 1975 - the largest coke shipping ever. She has murdered more than 200 people while she was in this business. She was sent to prison in 1985 and later released in 2004.
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Di ba kayo nagtataka. Bantay sarado ng US ang Afghanistan pero nakakalusot yang ganyang kalaking production ng ilegal na droga. Pinakamalaking production pa ng illegal drugs sa buong mundo ha. Laking pera nyan sigurado. Ayon sa article simula nung magapi ang TALIBAN nagsulputan yung malalaking drug lords sa Afghanistan.
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