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Business Wars

Wondery

History, Business, David Brown, Management

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

In the 1970s, a pair of brothers and their longtime friend begin smuggling cocaine from their home city of Cali, Colombia into the United States. They quickly establish a complex but highly efficient system for importing and distributing vast quantities of the drug, creating what becomes known as the Cali Cartel. Laundering their money through legitimate businesses in Colombia, the men from Cali become extremely wealthy. Soon, other budding entrepreneurs in Colombia take notice. The most ambitious among them is a young man named Pablo Escobar. He wants his organization, based out of Medellin, Colombia, to surpass the Cali Cartel as the biggest importer of cocaine into the United States.

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0:00.0	Wundery Plus subscribers can binge new seasons of Business Wars, ad free right now.
0:06.0	Join Wundery Plus in the Wundery app or on Apple Podcasts.
0:10.0	This is a special preview of Woundy Plus's exclusive three-part season on the Drug
0:15.4	Cartel Wars. Subscribers to Wundery Plus can binge all three episodes now.
0:20.3	A note to listeners, this episode references content that may not be suitable for younger
0:26.4	listeners. It's June 3rd, 1989, above the Magdalena River Valley, Columbia.
0:44.6	Jorge Salcedo sits in the co-pilot seat of a Cessna airplane soaring above the lush river
0:50.6	basin below. Salcedo peers out the window, taking in the dense canopy of trees.
0:57.0	After a moment, Salcedo checks the time.
1:00.0	It's just before 11 a.m.
1:02.0	He swiveles in his seat and looks back at a man perched in the back of the plane.
1:07.0	The man's surrounded by a sea of electronic equipment, a large pair of headphones over his ears.
1:13.0	Salcedo yells out to him.
1:15.0	It's almost time!
1:16.0	The radio tech gives him a thumbs up.
1:19.0	Salcedo watches the second hand on his clock,
1:21.0	taking closer and closer to 11.
1:24.6	Up until five months ago, Salcedo was a businessman and volunteer officer in the Colombian
1:29.3	military reserves.
1:31.2	Now, he's the architect of an illegal and highly dangerous mission for some of the most powerful drug lords in the world.
1:38.0	And he won't find out if the mission is a go until precisely 11 a.m.
1:44.0	Salcedo watches as 1059 turns to 11.
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