Reborn American Giants

The heads of two different organizations discussed on the satellite phone how to increase their efforts to encircle and suppress Escobar's forces.

Victor hung up the phone, thinking about any loopholes in this plan.

In fact, the real mastermind behind the Colombian government's crackdown on the Medellin Group came from the U.S. government.

At the beginning, cocaine, a new plant stimulant from South America, was not taken seriously by the U.S. government. Until 1982, the abuse of cocaine in the United States became increasingly serious. Maryland State University basketball star and NBA draft pick Ron Embia

Si died suddenly of a cocaine overdose at a campus party.

Almost overnight, cocaine ceased to be a party favorite and became a "murderer." Drug dealers like Pablo no longer led people to paradise, but became criminals. People did not stop taking cocaine.

, it’s just that drug use is no longer regarded as a fashion, it has become a sneaky behavior.

Originally, the U.S. government's focus was on a more important direction, which was to extinguish the intensifying communist movements in Latin America that were supported by the Soviet Union and Cuba. In June 1983, a secret intelligence from the CIA showed that some guerrillas

The team began to get involved in drug trafficking to make money to buy arms.

Although drug lords such as Pablo once worked with the Colombian military to fight against guerrillas such as FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia), ELN and M-19, these guerrillas later understood that it was more cost-effective to join the drug lords' bribery and fight against them.

So these guerrillas began to negotiate with drug lords and guard cocoa plantations, cocaine laboratories, etc. for the drug lords in order to obtain profits.

At the same time, the DEA used internal agents to film the heads of the Medellin Group, Escobar and Gacha, supervising the shipment of goods in Nicaragua. This made the US government extremely sensitive. This showed that the number one drug lord was in contact with the Marxist regime of Nicaragua.

The Dino Front has close ties.

This made the U.S. government very angry. They originally adopted a strategy of strictly guarding against communism and cracking down hard. But now, the alliance between drug lords and communists has made this U.S. blockade come to nothing. By participating in drug trafficking,

These communists have obtained a large amount of funds and have the strength to continue their anti-American and anti-government activities.

In January 1982, Underwood formed a cabinet group specifically responsible for coordinating all forces in the United States to combat drug trafficking, and appointed Vice President George Bush to lead the group.

This is the truth about the United States’ fight against drug lords. Its purpose is to prevent tens of billions of dollars in funds from being stolen from the American people by these drug lords every year, and then turned around and invested in anti-American and anti-government guerrillas in Latin America.

Go in motion.

Therefore, Escobar went from a small drug lord to a figure that the U.S. government wanted to quickly eliminate.

So a secret military team was sent to Colombia. The members of this team were all former espionage personnel, including surveillance experts and intelligence elites carefully trained by the U.S. military. They participated in the rescue of the American hostages at the Iranian Embassy in 1979. This

The subgroup in Colombia was code-named "Centra Spike," a sign that the U.S. government officially regarded Escobar as a "military target" rather than a simple drug trafficker.

Centra Spike was ordered to provide intelligence support to the Colombian military and police. Their first task was to find out the location of the leaders of the Medellin Group through signal interception. They flew in a small plane and flew around Medellin day and night.

Over the city, the equipment installed on the aircraft follows the flight trajectory and replaces three different ground positions by reading information from different directions. Once the target signal is obtained, the pilot flies around the target. Through accurate instantaneous calculations by the computer, they

It can calculate the target position in three dimensions within a few seconds.

centra spike also has a unique skill. As long as the target’s satellite phone still has power, centra spike

The phone can be turned on remotely at any time. Without any sound, the phone can be activated and emit a low-density signal, which is enough for the team members to determine the approximate location of the target. The next very important thing is not to let

When people found out who owned these planes, CIA established a cover company called Falcon Aviation and signed a contract with the Colombian government to carry out the Colombian aviation safety project as a cover. In this way, there was no need to obtain permission from the local government and the aircraft could be used

Fly to anywhere in Colombia.

In addition, President Underwood also issued National Security Order No. 18, ordering approximately US$250 million in military, judicial and intelligence assistance to the Colombian government in the next few years. A week later, an additional US$65 million was added.

funds, and also sent a team of U.S. special forces to Colombia to train the Colombian military and police in arrest tactics. Among them, those trained by U.S. special forces personnel, the Colombian National Police (PNC), were formed into an elite police force.

Called "search group"

bloc), one of which has been stationed in Medellin for a long time and is responsible for pursuing the leadership of the Medellin Group. The commander of this unit is Colonel Hugo Martinez.

Martinez was 48 years old. It was the last moment of his pursuit of life goals. With the support of the American intelligence team, the search team carried out a severe blow to the forces of the Medellin Group. During that time, it seemed that Martinez

The colonel and Pablo started a competition to see who could be more brutal.

On the first day the search team arrived in Medellin, ten vehicles disappeared with 80 military police officers on board. In the next 15 days, another 30 military police officers were killed, and Martinez in total only

Commanded 200 people. Pablo's killers eliminated them one by one, even getting help from the Medellín police. And Martin

Nez's family was also threatened by car bombs, and the colonel himself was sent by Pablo to use a huge amount of 6 million US dollars in cash in an attempt to bribe the commander who was specifically responsible for the manhunt. Despite suffering the consequences of death,

Despite grief, fear and the temptation of money, the "search team" did not flinch, let alone retreat.

Pablo brutally massacred the police in retaliation, and the colonel also responded forcefully. He threw two of Escobar's men directly out of the helicopter. In February 1983, "Search Team"

"Hunted Pablo's most trusted killer, Jon Ali.

Yas. In July, Pablo's brother-in-law Mario Henao was captured. On August 9, Pablo's cousin and close associate Gustavo Gaviria was shot dead. Gustavo was killed.

I have been working with Pablo since I was a student, following him step by step from the car thief back then to today.

The "search team" announced that Gustavo was killed in a firefight with the police, but Pablo always believed that Gustavo was tortured to death after being captured. Martinez responded to Escobar,

Show that you will never be intimidated by his bloody methods.

Now, Escobar has surrendered to the Colombian government, and it seems that President Betancur has also obtained the peace he wanted, allowing the Colombian government to take a breather and turn its head to crack down on other drug traffickers. This "drug war"

"It seems like this is how it ends.

But Victor knows that Betancur will one day realize that his idea is really too naive. He has not seen through Escobar, nor has he clearly seen Escobar's influence on the Colombian government and society.

How deep it was, let alone how difficult it would be to trap Escobar in a prison.

And Escobar would soon let Gaviria know that he was just playing tricks on him.

The purpose of the Cali Group's confrontation with Escobar is to defeat the Medellin Group, occupy the market share that originally belonged to the Medellin Group, and seize more benefits.

But Victor said that he had his own plan.