![]() He had three trusted people that had only pieces of a puzzle regarding the true identity of the smuggling boss. It was run by a mysterious mastermind known as El Invisible. Smart and manipulative, Nidia rules the drug transportation business with efficiency along with her right hand, El Boquita.īut operating behind the scenes was the true head of the Smuggling operations for the Cartel. Nidia Flores, the fearless Beauty Queen, is the head of smuggling. Air, land, sea – and even under sea – nothing can stop them. Smuggling makes sure the product always flows to where the demand is, and they use the most dubious and creative ways to ship drugs to satisfy that demand. They own processing plants, shipping stations, railways, and airports. Smuggling deals with money laundering, packaging and the transporting of final products both within the country and internationally. Similarly, El Chido, a Narco-Corrido singer, adds the music to a finely tuned propaganda machine, playing epic songs about El Sueño and his alleged exploits. That is why he relies on the smooth talking, DJ Perico, the official DJ of the Santa Blanca radio and his henchman, to communicate his teachings. Despite his traditional appearance, El Cardenal is also very aware of the crucial role of mass communications for disseminating the cartel’s propaganda. Excommunicated by the Catholic Church for preaching Santa Muerte doctrine, his religious background makes him perfect for winning the hearts and minds of the people. ![]() Despite their sweet lies, some of the cartel’s doings are too much for the people to digest.Įl Cardenal is in charge of influence branch, and is the direct spiritual advisor to El Sueño. Their mission is subtle but clear: they propagate all Santa Blanca’s dreadful actions as divine acts, making people believe El Sueño is a saint who really cares about their well-being. Influence leaders are often found in churches, monasteries, sanctuaries, and NGO camps, preaching El Sueño’s words and trying to convert people to the Santa Muerte cult. The influence branch manages the cartel’s recruitment and public image through manipulating religion, corrupting education, controlling the elite, and even operating a humanitarian non-governmental organization (NGO). Formerly a coca union leader, El Yayo is the highest-ranking Bolivian inside Santa Blanca and he works closely with La Gringa, a disgraced Sweden chemist. Production is headed by El Yayo (the Grandfather), an ex-cocalero who became a cocaine producer. ![]() To achieve this magic, production uses a large network of coca fields, laboratories, and hideouts, and Santa Blanca’s henchmen supervise the work of the cocaleros, or farmers, to ensure they meet the production demands by way of threats and extortion. This operation performs every step of transforming a coca leaf into its white powdery counterpart. The foundation of the Santa Blanca Cartel is production, the branch that deals with the raw materials used to build the cartel’s empire. Their connection with key politicians ended up them controlling most of Bolivia but before they got to control the cartel was at war with UNIDAD which engulfed the whole of Bolivia and in the end the government had to sign a secret peace treaty with the cartel saying, "If you stop killing our people, we will look the other way." Since then the cartel grew with power spreading its influence across all of South America and soon tried to spread its influence to other countries. The citizens were given two options: "silver or lead" - work for Santa Blanca, or be killed.īefore the Mexican Cartel came to Bolivia, there were many other Bolivian Cartels and it was El Sueño who killed its leaders one by one and slowly took over Bolivia. To accomplish this, Sueño came to Bolivia from Mexico and formed the Santa Blanca Cartel in 2008. Santa Blanca was founded by El Sueño, a dangerous sicario who had a dream-hence the name El Sueño-of creating a narco-state. ![]()
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