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Shaun Attwoods True Crime Podcast

Son of the Cali Cartel: William Rodríguez Abadía | True Crime Podcast 356 Colombia

Shaun Attwoods True Crime Podcast

Shaun Attwood Podcast

True Crime, Documentary, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2022

⏱️ 102 minutes

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The Cali Cartel was the most powerful drug organisation that Colombia has ever seen. It financed the hunt for Pablo Escobar and controlled the majority of the global cocaine trade. The two main capos, Gilberto and his brother, Miguel, ran a multi-billion-dollar drug empire like a corporation. They bribed dozens of judges, politicians, military, police officers – and even presidents.
This is Miguel’s son’s jaw-dropping story.
It starts with one of the biggest assassination attempts in Cali’s history. Dressed as cops, six men carrying guns with silencers opened fire on Miguel’s son William in a restaurant. Surrounded by his dead friends, William, seriously injured, was extracted and carried unconscious to a hospital.
William reveals the role of the Cali Cartel in wiping out its main rivals in the Medellín Cartel: Pablo Escobar and Gacha aka The Mexican.
Find out how William ran the cartel while his father was incarcerated and what he had to do to save his family from ever increasing threats and danger.


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0:00.0

I was having lunch in a restaurant in Cali, in Cali, Colombia, and ten hitmen got to where

0:20.2

I was and it was a disaster, there were six people dead.

0:27.7

I decided to call my wife and say a good bye to her because I don't know, something

0:35.5

and I picked up my cell phone, I called her, I talked to her, tell her that I love her

0:41.8

and protect my kid, I don't know why I say that and when I finished the call, immediately

0:52.8

the guys got up and then two of those guys started shooting at us and unfortunately

0:58.6

for me I tried to log it up, they say my life because I would have been hidden in my face

1:06.3

and the inertia of the shots took me back so I thought in another table that table comes

1:27.9

in top of me and unfortunately one of my friends that hit here and he immediately you know

1:34.0

all the blood was on my side and then I lay down and I was like you know making it and

1:40.4

I was dead but I was seeing this guy move from here on there and there was you know there

1:45.4

were seconds but for me it was like an hour you know this guy and when the guy decided

1:49.5

to go you know and then I called for help.

1:59.8

So today we have got an exclusive interview with William whose book we have just brought

2:07.8

out it's the son of the Cali Cartel and we're going to be getting into a hell of a lot of detail

2:13.0

about that shortly but before I begin you know many of you are familiar with William's story

2:19.7

if you've watched Narcos which was a misrepresentation of the actual truth and we're going to get

2:25.3

into that as well but this is a massive story because the Cali Cartel at the peak they took

2:32.0

over from Escobar and they were moving tens of billions in cocaine worldwide it did become

2:38.0

the biggest distribution cartel in the world and many of you are familiar with the four heads

2:45.7

of the Cali Cartel so you got Chepe, Patio and then you've got Miguel which is William's dad

2:53.6

and then you've got Gilberto his brother the the chess player the chess player so only Miguel

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