Originally Posted By: TonyG
Originally Posted By: slumpy

Have you never heard of Pablo Escobar?


+1.

The Mexican cartels may be the "hardest" right now, but Escobar and the Medellín Cartel killed high ranking Colombian government officials (Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, Minister of Justice; Carlos Mauro Hoyos, Attorney General; and Hernando Baquero Borda, Supreme Court Justice are 3 examples), stormed and bombed the Colombian Supreme Court, bombed a commercial airline (Avianca) and publicly assassinated a top presidential candidate (Luis Carlos Galán, who likely would have won).

The Mexicans do not come close to the chaos that Pablo and the Medellín Cartel created in Colombia.


Medellin during Escobar's height had a murder rate of almost 400 per 100,000. Juarez at its peak was about 148 per 100,000.