La Gente Established

Criminal Activity

In early 2000, the head of the family, Elario Carcavera, united several North American and South American drug czars, creating La Gente (Spanish for “the people”). Elario became the leader of what was suddenly the single largest drug cartel in the world. The other drug czars had little say in the matter, as Elario had leveraged his individual deals to create strangleholds on the major distribution points into the North America and Southeast Asia. The few attempts to shrug off La Gente were met with savage responses—something rival families did not expect from the previously compliant Carcavera family. It quickly became clear that Elario Carcavera was “here to stay,” and that business as usual now meant dealing with La Gente.