A drug lord, drug baron, kingpin, or lord of drugs is a type of crime boss in charge of a drug trafficking network, organization, or enterprise.
Pablo Escobar
Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán
Griselda Blanco
"Freeway" Rick Ross
A drug cartel is a criminal organization composed of independent drug lords who collude with each other in order to improve their profits and dominate the illegal drug trade. Drug cartels form with the purpose of controlling the supply of the illegal drug trade and maintaining prices at a high level. The formations of drug cartels are common in Latin American countries. Rivalries between multiple drug cartels cause them to wage turf wars against each other.
The Mérida Initiative, a U.S. Counter-Narcotics Assistance to Mexico
Drug trafficking tunnel under the U.S.-Mexico border used by the Sinaloa Cartel
El Azul was a Mexican drug lord. He was a former Mexican secret police (DFS) agent.
Luis Hernando Gomez-Bustamante, also known as "Rasguño", arrest performed by the National Police of Colombia