Carlos Enrique Lehder Rivas (geboren op 7 september 1949) is een Duits-Colombiaanse voormalige drugsbaron die medeoprichter was van het Medellín-kartel. Geboren uit een Duitse vader en een Colombiaanse moeder, was hij de eerste drugshandelaar op hoog niveau die aan de Verenigde Staten werd uitgeleverd, waarna hij in 2020 na 33 jaar uit de gevangenis in…
José Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha (May 14, 1947 – December 15, 1989), also known by the nicknames Don Sombrero (English: Mister Hat) and El Mexicano (English: The Mexican), was a Colombian drug lord who was one of the leaders of the Medellín Cartel along with the Ochoa brothers and Pablo Escobar . At the height of his criminal…
George Jacob Jung (August 6, 1942 – May 5, 2021), nicknamed Boston George and El Americano, was an American drug trafficker and smuggler. He was a major figure in the cocaine trade in the United States in the 1970s and early 1980s. Jung and his partner Carlos Lehder smuggled cocaine into the United States for the Colombian…
Roberto de Jesús Escobar Gaviria (born January 13, 1947), nicknamed El Osito (“the little teddy bear”), is the brother of the late drug lord Pablo Escobar , and the former accountant and co-founder of the Medellín Cartel , which was responsible for as much as 80 percent of the cocaine smuggled into the United States. He was the eldest…
Juan David Ochoa Vásquez (April 13, 1946 – July 25, 2013) was a Colombian drug trafficker and one of the founders of the Medellín Cartel , a major drug cartel based in the city of Medellín. Juan David was the older brother of Jorge Luis Ochoa and Fabio Ochoa Vásquez , powerful figures within the Medellín Cartel. In January…
Jorge Luis Ochoa Vásquez (born September 30, 1950) is a Colombian former drug trafficker who was a founding member of the infamous Medellín Cartel in the late 1970s. The main members of the cartel were Pablo Escobar, Carlos Lehder, José Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha, Gustavo Gaviria, Jorge Ochoa and his brothers Juan Ochoa and Fabio Ochoa….
Fabio Ochoa Vásquez (born May 2, 1957) is a former leading member of the cocaine cartel in Medellín, along with his older brothers Juan David and Jorge Luis. His role briefly made him a billionaire. After serving a short prison sentence in Colombia, he was arrested and extradited to the US in 1999 and is…
John Jairo Arias Tascón (1961 – June 13, 1990), known as Pinina, was a member of the Medellín Cartel . He rose to power in the cartel’s military wing and was accused of hundreds of murders. He was considered fifth in the cartel structure. He also had eight wives and children according to the actor who recited…
Jhon Jairo Velásquez Vásquez (April 15, 1962 – February 6, 2020), also known by the alias “Popeye” or “JJ”, was a Colombian hitman, who was part of the criminal structure of the Medellín Cartel until his surrender to the Colombian legal system in 1992. Within this structure, he claimed to be a lieutenant in command of half…
The Cali Cartel (Spanish: Cartel de Cali) was a drug cartel based in southern Colombia, around the city of Cali and the Valle del Cauca. The founders were brothers Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela, Miguel Rodríguez Orejuela and José Santacruz Londoño. They broke away from Pablo Escobar and his Medellín associates in 1988, when Hélmer “Pacho” Herrera…