The Ochoa Brothers were a Colombian drug trafficking family active in the 1980s. The Ochoa brothers, Juan Ochoa, Jorge Ochoa and Fabio Ochoa, were smart and very wealthy, and they were one of the three major operations in Colombia in the 1980s, the others being Jose Rodriguez Gacha’s group and Pablo Escobar’s operation goods. The Ochoa formed an alliance with Escobar’s operation and formed the Medellin Cartel as a conglomerate in 1982. However, the Ochoa Brothers later questioned Escobar’s chosen path in the mid-1980s, as his rash actions had resulted in Medellin’s leaders being exiled to Panama or hunted down in Colombia. Ultimately, they decided to team up with Helmer Herrera and the Cali Cartel to defeat Pablo, and in 1988 they surrendered to the police on the condition that they be charged with illegally importing bulls from Spain and serve a reduced sentence. The Ochoas decided to turn Escobar’s cousin Gustavo Gaviria over to General Augusto Jaramillo as a way to interrupt Escobar’s operations, and as a way to prevent Gaviria from having a secret sexual relationship with their sister Marina Ochoa. They succeeded in this goal in 1990, with Search Bloc killing Gaviria for them.
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