During the height of its operations, the Cartel brought in more than $60 million per day. The total amount of money made by the Cartel was in the tens of billions, and very possibly the hundreds of billions of dollars.
Region: Colombia
Weapons: Rifles, machetes, dynamite
Reign: 1970's and '80s
Key Battles: 35 heavily armed members of the M-19 guerrilla group raided the Supreme Court's building, leading to the Palace of Justice siege in November 1985.