La Corporación
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La Corporación ("The Corporation"), also known as the Santa Ana Cartel, was a Bolivian drug cartel and criminal organization, headed in the 1970s and 1980s by notorious drug lord Roberto Suárez Goméz, known as the "King of Cocaine".[1]
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Founded | 1970s |
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Founder | Roberto Suárez Goméz |
Founding location | Bolivia |
Years active | 1970s-1990 |
Ethnicity | Bolivians |
Activities | Drug trafficking and smuggling, money laundering, murder, assassination, political corruption |
Allies | Bolivian military junta Medellín Cartel Mexican drug cartels Contras |
Rivals | DEA Bolivian government |
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"La Corporación" was founded in the 1970s by several drug traffickers and transnational criminals. After the 1980 coup d'état, "La Corporación" received political protection from the Bolivian military dictatorship, effectively making Bolivia a narco-state, and became one of the largest cocaine producers in the world.[2] They were allied with several Mexican and Colombian drug cartels and had a notable presence in Santa Cruz de la Sierra.