Chapter 414: Accident at the Opening Ceremony (Please Collect, Recommend, and Vote for the Monthly Ticket) Second Update, Please Vote
In the 1980s and 1990s, the United States did not ban drugs, or did not know much about drugs such as heroin. At that time, the United States cared most about marijuana and opium. →So that era was the best era for drug lords, and the biggest ones at that time were Colombian drug lords.
Colombian drug lords were not the first to start drug trafficking, but they were the biggest and strongest. It was also this group of Colombians who first started to organize drug trafficking. At that time, the largest drug lord group in Colombia was the Medellin Group. Medellin is the second largest city in Colombia.
In this beautiful city, the world's largest drug lord, Pablo Escobar, came out.
How legendary is this guy? Just take a look at his profile.
Pablo Escobar was once selected as one of the world's top seven richest people by Fortune magazine. His private army of 40,000 people is well-equipped; his private plane is called "Skylark". This combat helicopter originally belonged to the Colombian Navy, equipped with multiple rocket launchers and Sidewinder missiles, and is known as the "air tank". Escobar dispatched three fighter jets to force the "Skylark" to land at his own airport, and it became his private plane.
Escobar was the most arrogant drug lord in history. The police who arrested him were shot and killed within three days; the judge who tried him had his wife gang-raped, and her bra and panties stained with sex were sent to the judge's office; the Colombian Attorney General who wanted him was offered a reward of $100 million by him, and finally died on the street. In 1987, Ochoa, one of his partners, was arrested. The president of the Colombian Supreme Court who was in charge of the trial resigned one after another, and the Minister of Justice had to cancel the arrest warrant.
He also sent people to assassinate the Minister of Justice who advocated drug prohibition at the time, and sent people to attack the Colombian Ministry of Justice Building, kidnapping senior officials of the Ministry of Justice, Supreme Court, Supreme Procuratorate and Anti-Drug Police Bureau who were in a meeting. Finally, the Colombian government sent troops to finally suppress the riot, but that was all. More than half of the judges and prosecutors in the building died, and by the way, they also burned all the evidence of Escobar's crimes.
After that, the legendary drug lord was also preparing to assassinate the president, but the president was lucky and did not board the plane with the bomb installed, but the plane still crashed, causing a large number of casualties. In short, this legendary drug lord really achieved the achievement of fighting the entire country with one person. If the Americans had not personally taken action, it is estimated that this guy could really turn the whole of Colombia over.
Then there is the Medellin Group to which he belongs. The Medellin Drug Cartel is actually not a specific gang organization, but is composed of 4 gang organizations. These four major drug trafficking groups are all notorious local drug trafficking organizations. How powerful are they? Let me tell you. The Medellin Drug Cartel has a total of nearly 300 drug lords of all sizes. They are active in various parts of the world and control a huge drug trafficking network of nearly 20,000 people. The Medellin Drug Cartel has a complete drug production and sales system, and is supported by strong armed forces. It has also trained a large number of assassination members to assassinate official personnel who want to ban drugs. →
In front of the Medellin drug cartel, the power of the Mafia and the Yamaguchi-gumi is not even comparable. The Medellin drug cartel's annual revenue has reached more than 30 billion US dollars. A US drug control official once described the Medellin drug cartel like this: "In front of the Medellin drug cartel, the Mafia is like a primary school student."
However, it was prosperous and then declined. Because it was too arrogant, the American father was unhappy, so he personally intervened. The result is self-evident.
The fate of the Americans was naturally not something that the Medellin cartel could satisfy, so the Cali cartel, the second largest drug cartel in Colombia at the time, was also affected and destroyed. After that, the drug lords in Colombia were no longer a force to be reckoned with.
The Golden Circle was also an organization conceived when Escobar was alive. At that time, the United States was negotiating an extradition treaty with Colombia, hoping to extradite Colombian drug lords to the United States for trial and detention.
At that time, Colombia was said to be a country ruled by drug lords. It may be an exaggeration, but the drug lords did have a good time there. Even if they are caught by the police, it doesn't matter. Going to jail is like a vacation. As long as you spend money, you can live comfortably. After a few years, you can get a reduction in sentence, parole, medical treatment, and other means.
So being extradited to the United States is simply a disaster for them. After all, no one in the United States buys their tricks. If you are caught, you are really in jail, and you can't get out for hundreds of years. So almost all drug lords at that time opposed this measure. Escobar even killed a presidential candidate for this.
At that time, Escobar felt that it was a bit risky for him to fight the government alone for the interests of all drug lords, so he wondered if he could bring together domestic drug lords, such as the Cali Group and the North Valley Group, to form a large alliance of drug lords. This is the Golden Circle, and the name is very appropriate.
I have to say that Escobar's idea is indeed very good. According to the strength of all drug lords in Colombia at that time, it is indeed not difficult to fight the government.
Unfortunately, the idea is good, but the reality is very skinny.
The drug cartels competed more than united, for example, the conflict between the Medellin Cartel and the Cali Cartel was huge, and the competition for the New York market led to a situation where both sides were almost at the point of a fight to the death. The other drug cartels were not much different, so when it came to Escobar's proposal, everyone just gave him a few words of courtesy, seeing that he was the strongest, and then went on with their business.
When the US government got the news, it was really nervous for a while. After all, if these drug lords really united and organized hundreds of thousands of armed personnel easily, at that time, it would not be drug prohibition, but only war!
This was definitely not a good thing for the US government, which was surging with anti-war thoughts at the time. →
But later, it was discovered that the so-called Golden Circle was just a showpiece. So I didn't care.
After listening to it, Kai was also very moved.
Socialism is still good, there are no such trivial things.
"Now the situation is complicated... Our Chicago police have no ability to get involved. I will let the DEA take over. You can take a holiday first. This matter is not over yet!" Cooper asked everyone to leave the case very toughly, and then he left alone with ease.
If it is really the Golden Circle that has revived, then this matter is not their responsibility in Chicago.
If it were in the past, Director Cooper would not care about this, as long as it was a case, he would grab it. After all, the case represents merit, not to mention this kind of big case, but it is a little different recently. There have been too many troubles in Chicago recently, and Director Cooper doesn't want to ask for trouble.
Marcus and Mike opened their mouths and wanted to call Director Cooper, but they didn't say anything in the end. There was no way. The level difference was too big. If Theresa was here, they would definitely make trouble to seize the case. After all, Marcus's sister Sydney was involved.
More importantly, the things involved here... they really can't handle it. Marcus and Mike both think they are fearless, but they are still a little nervous when facing these "Terminators". They are not even normal humans. How can they play?
In short, the only way they can think of now is to let Sydney withdraw from this case.
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Kai didn't sleep all night. After all, the things in this case were too shocking. In the end, even the CIA was alarmed. When Colombia was fighting against drugs, the CIA actually participated in part of the operation. Of course, they were not fighting against drugs, but to ensure that Colombia would not be communistized.
In the 1980s, it was a critical period for the hegemony between the United States and the Soviet Union. The countries in South America were also the focus of competition between the two countries. Especially for the United States, South America was their backyard and economic colony. Naturally, it was impossible for the United States to intervene. The lesson of Cuba was enough for them.
So the main goal of the CIA in the local area was to ensure that Colombia would not fall to the socialist camp. At that time, there were really too many anti-government armed forces in Colombia, and nine out of ten of them were under the banner of socialism.
The CIA also participated in the operation against the Colombian drug lords at that time, and knew about the Golden Circle. But the problem is that they didn't know that this organization, which had never existed at all, actually survived, which was a big deal.
Again, South America is the backyard of the United States. But now there is an organization in the backyard that they didn't know before, that is, the CIA's dereliction of duty, and they must understand it. Of course, it is unknown whether there is a reason for stealing credit.
Anyway, since the establishment of several major law enforcement agencies in the United States, the biggest enemy has never been external, but internal peers. After all, Congress only allocates so much money every year. If you have more, I will have less. So if you want more funding, you have to be more powerful than the other departments.
At the same time, for the three "Terminator" wreckages, in addition to the Chicago police, the FBI, CIA, and the Department of Homeland Security are all fighting for it. These three departments have their own scientific research capabilities, and it is impossible not to fight. If the DEA didn't have any decent scientific research capabilities, they would have to fight.
This chaos didn't stop until the third day when the Expo was about to open.
As a member of the police special operations team of this Expo, Kai had to return to the base.
However, Kai did not stay in one place on standby like other colleagues. He was named by the president to serve as an escort. The Chicago police naturally would not make it difficult for him and agreed directly.
So at the opening ceremony, Kai had the honor of going to the rostrum, but not in front, but behind the scenes.
So, he saw the bitter and vengeful Banning again.
Seeing Kai yawning, Banning looked very uncomfortable. Banning is a person who regards his duties as more important than his life. So he hates people who neglect their duties, such as Kai. In Banning's opinion, Kai is written with the word "unprofessional" everywhere. If such a person is in his team, he will kick him out immediately. Such a person is not qualified to protect the president.
However, Kai doesn't care much. He didn't want to come in the first place. He was almost annoyed by those bureaucrats these days. These people asked the same questions over and over again, as if Kai was the one behind the three Terminators. In the past few days, he didn't sleep well. If he had time now, he really wanted to run away from the command car and sleep. Who wants to run around like a fool with the president?
The opening ceremony was held very grandly, but that was all. Tony, the playboy, didn't do anything fancy. He just followed the process honestly.
This made many people who are familiar with Tony Stark's nature feel very satisfied.
This guy is too jumpy and may give people a big surprise at any time, but these surprises are completely unnecessary for many politicians. After all, no one wants to come here from afar to be the background.
Whenever Tony Stark gets involved, he is the one who gets the limelight, no surprise!
This is not okay!
Did they come here just to see Tony, the playboy, show off? If that's the case, they might as well read the newspaper, which has much more exciting content than this!
But just when everyone thought that Tony hadn't made trouble this time, the music suddenly sounded!
Tony directly grabbed the microphone from the host and shouted in a high-pitched voice: "Ladies and gentlemen! Let's do something different!"
After that, dry ice suddenly sprayed around the opening ceremony stage.
Before the dignitaries on the stage could figure out what was going on, they saw the backstage suddenly cracked, revealing the stairs below, and then accompanied by dynamic music, a model wearing Victoria's underwear with angel wings walked out of the stairs in a catwalk.
There was an uproar at the scene, and then everyone stood up and applauded and whistled wildly.
Only the politicians and celebrities who were still on the stage felt very embarrassed. They could only show a fake smile and applaud along with the music. They couldn't do anything else. Such a serious occasion suddenly turned into an underwear show, which made them not know how to deal with it. If they were to say that in private, they really didn't mind appreciating those beautiful bodies.
But the problem is that now in public, if they reveal their true nature, it would be a joke. What made them even more angry was that they didn't know how to leave... After the stage cracked, it just blocked their way out of the scene.
When Banning saw this scene, he almost drew his gun and rushed out. After all, this situation was completely outside the process they knew in advance. This unexpected situation was the most annoying situation for security personnel. There were too many uncertainties. For example, what if someone in the Mott was plotting something bad?
Of course, this is unlikely to happen. The fabrics on those young ladies are pitifully small, and it is unlikely that there are any dangerous items hidden.
But what if?
Of course, fortunately he didn't rush out, otherwise tomorrow's front page headlines would be lively.
"Tell me, how can we get Mr. President out of there!" Banning grabbed the person in charge of the stage angrily and kept asking him to let the president go.
"It will take a few more minutes according to the process. Now is the time when the attention is the highest. If the president is allowed to leave, it will affect the effect." The person in charge is the planner of the Victoria's Secret Show. Of course, they can't miss such a good publicity opportunity. If it were in the past, who would invite the president to watch the Victoria's Secret Show? Not to mention that he has become a guest performer now.
"Fuck! I don't care about the process! Listen to me, now, immediately, right now! Let the president come back here, otherwise, I will arrest you for endangering the president's safety!" Banning doesn't care about such a thing. His duty is to protect the president! Everyone else, stand aside!
The person in charge was robbed and swallowed his saliva. In the end, he didn't have the courage to refuse. He wanted to use the president's influence to help Victoria's Secret hype public opinion, but in comparison, his life was more important.