But Colombian President Alvaro Uribe's campaign of arrests and extraditions made ghosts of the Medellin and Calicartels.
CNN: Stakes rise as drug war threatens to cross border
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The Northern Valley drug cartel was prominent in the 1990s, after the break-up of the Medellin and Calicartels.
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The US Treasury has removed the Colombian football team America de Cali from its blacklist of groups or individuals deemed to have links to illegal drugs cartels.
BBC: Colombian football team taken off US sanctions list