Colombian Drug Lord: Venezuela's Former #2 Sold Cocane to islamc State

Javier Cardona Ramírez ran a Colombian drug cartel in the 1980s that distributed cocaine to much of the U.S. eastern seaboard and served his term in Brooklyn. Through connections still in jail or the drug trade, Cardona Ramírez insists that Venezuela’s Cartel de los Soles has almost complete control of the cocaine trade in the region, and that it is headed by Cabello. Cabello, he said in an interview this week, “is Venezuela’s biggest drug trafficker” and comparable to Mexico’s Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán. He claims he personally bought 700 kilos of cocaine from the Cartel de los Soles while still smuggling drugs into the United States. More…