Though in rare circumstances pirates also fire back. But still they cannot shoot a pirate though they are allowed to damage the boat of the pirates. They can shoot a pirate only if their or any other crew member’s life is at stake.

5. Pirates Rarely Kill People (Which is Why They’re So Dangerous) After pirates have seized a ship, navies rarely attempt to retake it, because hostages could be hurt in the process.

1980s
1980s. At its height, the Medellín Cartel supplied up to 80 percent of the global cocaine market, running its product up through the Caribbean.

At this time, the Medellín Cartel was generating over $20 billion annually….Medellín Cartel.

Abduwali Muse
English pronunciation (help·info)) is a convicted Somali pirate. He is the sole survivor of four pirates who hijacked the MV Maersk Alabama in April 2009 and then held Captain Richard Phillips for ransom….

CALI, COLOMBIA — The cocaine cartel that takes its name from this city has become Colombia’s largest, outstripping the more violent Medellin group, according to Colombian and international narcotics experts.

Peter McAleese
Who is Peter McAleese? Peter McAleese is a man from Scotland who was hired to try to kill drug lord Pablo Escobar in 1989, when he was 46 years old. He had grown up in a postwar working-class Glasgow, at a time when poverty and violence were prevalent according to the documentary description from the BBC.

Ochoa was a drug trafficker from Medellin and helped to found the Medellin cartel in the late 1970s. The cartel’s key members were Pablo Escobar, Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha, Jorge Ochoa and his brothers Juan David and Fabio. He currently lives in Medellin, Colombia.

After the arrest of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, the cartel is now headed by Ismael Zambada García (aka El Mayo) and Guzmán’s sons, Alfredo Guzmán Salazar, Ovidio Guzmán López and Ivan Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar. As of 2021, the Sinaloa Cartel remains Mexico’s most dominant drug cartel.

They didn’t have a safe room on the ship – the crew claimed Captain Phillips repeatedly told them they didn’t need one. The crew weren’t allowed to have weapons on board (a common safety regulation among merchant vessels worldwide), and the ship lacked any defensive technology or hardware to protect them from pirates.

On April 10, Phillips jumped into the sea. But he was quickly recaptured. As negotiations with the pirates stalled, Navy SEAL Team 6 was dispatched from Virginia and arrived at Bainbridge on April 11. Later that day, pirates allowed a U.S. ship to attach a crane to a lifeboat that ran out of fuel.

The Cartel member sees him and desperately tries to go back inside, only to find that the door is locked from the inside and cannot be opened. The Pirate fires the rocket, which flies at the Cartel thug and blows up, obliterating him.. The remaining Pirate roars in victory and walks away.

Inside the warehouse, Pablo Escobar and one of the Medellín Drug Cartel thugs are preparing packages of cocaine while a third member practices swinging his machete and a fourth dances to salsa music. Outside, the Somali pirates dock their boat and advance towards the warehouse.

In close range, the Medellin Cartel’s Machete took the edge. It being able to cut the ballistic gel torso’s hand clean off, slash his neck, and was generally meant to kill. In Mid Range, the Mini Uzi was tested against the AK-47.