The Cali Cartel (Spanish: Cartel de Cali) was a drug cartel based in southern Colombia, around the city of Cali and the Valle del Cauca. Its founders were the brothers Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela, Miguel Rodríguez Orejuela and José Santacruz Londoño.

Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Orejuela (born August 15, 1943) [1] [2] is a convicted Colombian drug lord, formerly one of the leaders of the Cali Cartel, based in the city of Cali. He is the younger brother of Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela .

Gilberto José Rodríguez Orejuela (30 January 1939 – 31 May 2022) was a Colombian drug lord and one of the leaders of the Cali Cartel. Orejuela formed the cartel with his brother, Miguel Rodríguez Orejuela, José Santacruz Londoño, and Hélmer Herrera.

2022年6月1日 · MIAMI — Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela, an elderly leader of the former Cali cartel that smuggled vast amounts of cocaine from Colombia to the United States in the 1980s and 1990s, has died...

2006年9月26日 · The Rodriguez-Orejuela brothers agreed to plead guilty to a money laundering conspiracy charged in the Southern District of New York that alleged that they laundered the illicit fortune of the Cali Cartel through a pharmaceutical drug empire that included more than 400 retail drug stores across Colombia and pharmaceutical drug laboratories that ...

2017年8月6日 · Pablo Escobar, head of the Medellin Cartel, became internationally famous and synonymous with the Colombian drug trade, but law enforcement officials say it’s the brothers Rodriguez who are the real kings of cocaine.

2007年2月25日 · Colombian drug lords Miguel Rodriguez Orejuela, 63, and Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, 67, entered guilty pleas and were ushered to federal prison for the next 30 years. But behind the fall of the...

2007年2月24日 · But behind the bloodless fall of the ruthless Orejuela brothers and collapse of their $7-billion-a-year empire lies a little-known story of daring and betrayal. Aiding U.S. drug agents...

2022年6月15日 · For more than two decades, Colombian kingpin, Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela, alias “El Ajedrecista,” meaning “The Chess Player,” was one of the leaders and founders of the now-defunct Cali Cartel, a confederation of 15 criminal groups dedicated to moving cocaine to the United States and Europe.

This morning Miguel and Alberto Rodriguez-Orejuela, brothers who ran the infamous Cali drug cartel in Colombia for more than 20 years, pleaded guilty in a federal court in Miami to a charge of conspiracy to import cocaine into the United States. They …