The Cartel

In the late twentieth century, drug cartels boomed. Corruption, kidnappings and murders gave them strength. Bombs exploded in the streets, the evening silence was broken by rapid bursts of emptying magazines - masked sicarios were executing sentences. A system of cocaine labs grew in the Colombian jungle - the driving force behind the cartels and the backbone of the drug business. As thousands of tons of cocaine worth $ 25 billion were smuggled into the US each year, the market began to saturate. To sustain the appallingly dynamic development of the cartels, the drug barons began a race for a new trophy ... In a stuffy room in Medelin, where DEA agents are crowded, one of the walls is occupied by a large screen displaying an image from Arlington, almost 3,700 km away. In the room, at the end of the table, you can see the athletic figure of a man sitting in a carefully pressed suit, against the backdrop of the Agency's logo. He has been discussing current affairs for a long time, and finally turns to you. - In conclusion, I would like to welcome the Task Force, which has recently been set up to fight drug trafficking on the Panama border. The matter is urgent. Yesterday evening, a respected American chemist, Thomas Smith, was kidnapped in the main square in Cali. To the knowledge of our informants, he was taken to one of the jungle laboratories on the Colombian border, where advanced work on a new drug is underway. The fight against time is ongoing, the government must take over the formula and prevent the first transport of this substance to its territory. Come on in, you will receive the rest of the information on the spot ...