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	F.E.A.R. -- Witness Protection Program - carlos lehder rivas
		Lehder would be extradited, officials announced, and become the first foreign drug lord to face the full force of American justice.
		Lehder was rewarded for turning in someone who was in effect an underling in his operation.
		Lehder once threatened to kill one federal judge a week if he was caught, prompting U.S. officials to put narcotics agents, their families and other officials on worldwide alert after his arrest.
	www.fear.org /carlos1.html (1491 words)

	Bahamas news - Bahamian news portal: - The Lehder Legacy - Tourism (Site not responding. Last check: )
		And the walls of Carlos Lehder Rivas's smuggling command center is festooned with tourist graffiti.
		Lehder, a founder of the Medellin Cartel, was convicted in U.S. federal court in 1988 on drug trafficking charges and sentenced to life plus 135 years.
		Eventually, the DEA and Bahamians made it difficult for Lehder to continue operating from the island, and he was finally captured in 1987 after a gun battle in Colombia to face trial in the United States.
	www.bahamasb2b.com /news/wmprint.php?ArtID=7679 (542 words)

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		In his second day of testimony at the federal court trial of Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega, the witness, Carlos Lehder Rivas, said he met twice in Havana with Gen. Raul Castro, Cuba's defense minister, to gain permission for cocaine shipments to fly over Cuban territory on their way to Florida.
		Lehder said the cartel turned to Nicaragua as an alternative to Noreiga, who he said had become increasingly greedy and demanding.
		Lehder, one of nine founding members of the Medellín cartel, was captured by Colombian authorities during a raid on his jungle stronghold in February 1987 and immediately handed over to the United States, where he was wanted on 11 counts of cocaine trafficking and racketeering.
	www.latinamericanstudies.org /drugs/lehder.htm (405 words)

	frontline: drug wars: thirty years of america's drug war \| PBS
		Carlos Lehder, a key member of the alliance that would become the Medellin cartel, revolutionizes the cocaine trade with his purchase of 165 acres on the Bahamian island of Norman's Cay.
		A U.S. federal grand jury in Miami releases the indictment of the Ochoas, Pablo Escobar, Carlos Lehder and Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha under the RICO statute.
		Carlos Lehder is captured by the Colombian National Police at a safe house owned by Pablo Escobar in the mountains outside of Medellin.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/cron (3867 words)

	Carlos Lehder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Carlos Enrique Lehder Rivas, AKA Carlos Ledher (1950-) co-founder of the Medellín Cartel and one of the most important operators therein, is considered to be the most important Colombian drug kingpin to be successfully prosecuted in the United States.
		Carlos Lehder (left) inhaling cocaine with former prisonmate Steven Yakovac on Norman's Cay (1976).
		Carlos Lehder's ongoing legal battles confirm Lehder remains imprisoned in the US, and that he is not likely to be released anytime soon.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Carlos_Lehder (1430 words)

	Floridian: Carlos Lehder Rivas, b. 1950, Drug Trafficker
		From his jail cell in Danbury, Conn., where he was doing time for importing marijuana, Carlos Lehder Rivas saw massive cultural upheaval, crumbling social and moral constraints, and diminishing respect for the dignity of the individual.
		Before his capture, Lehder sat on a throne in the jungle of Colombia and bragged of his attack on the cultural heart of this nation.
		Lehder was convicted and sentenced to life plus 135 years in prison.
	www.sptimes.com /News/112899/Floridian/Carlos_Lehder_Rivas__.shtml (538 words)

	FTW: Carlos Lehder a free man, working for US Gov't? [Free Republic]
		Carlos Lehder remains the only cartel head to have ever been extradited to, then tried, convicted and sentenced to life plus 135 years in, the United States.
		Lehder was, until June 22, a manager for the insurance giant AIG in San Francisco.
		She was very agitated at the government and she said that the government had contacted Carlos and told him to 'put that bitch on a leash.' That, said Castillo, was probably because of her openness in talking about the fact that Carlos was out of prison and her public appearances with Webb.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3b48d87a19b5.htm (8555 words)

	The Autumn of the Drug Lord
		Lehder, soon to be a villain of James Bond-movie proportions, with private islands, helicopters and speedboats, who once commissioned a giant statue of his hero, John Lennon, and employed a special sort of personal trainer to impress on his enemies the folly of crossing him.
		Carlos Lehder, the cocaine pioneer, had already been handed over when Lara Bonilla's assassination led the Government to start vigorously enforcing its new extradition treaty with the Americans.
		Lehder transported (as American Federal prisoners always are) in chains were spoiling his pursuit of the good life, in spite of the billions of dollars being exported from American ghettos to support it.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/97/06/15/reviews/970615.15stonet.html (2181 words)

	George Jung
		He was sentenced to 26 months in Danbury, Connecticut, his cellmate was Carlos Lehder, a young Colombian man, arrested for grand theft auto.
		With Escobar's approval, Jung agreed to testify against Carlos Lehder and was set free.
		Lehder received life plus 135 years but after making a deal with then US President George H.W. Bush he went into witness protection and has not been heard of since.
	www.white-horses.net /george.html (536 words)

	HOSTAGES: A Multi-Part FTW Special Investigation - Carlos Lehder
		Carlos Lehder remains the only cartel head to have ever been extradited to, then tried, convicted and sentenced to life plus 135 years in, the United States.
		I first became aware of Carlos Lehder's possible freedom in the Spring of 1997, not long after I had confronted CIA Director John Deutch on television and stated that there was direct proof of CIA involvement in the drug trade.
		She was very agitated at the government and she said that the government had contacted Carlos and told him to 'put that bitch on a leash.' That, said Castillo, was probably because of her openness in talking about the fact that Carlos was out of prison and her public appearances with Webb.
	www.fromthewilderness.com /free/ciadrugs/part_1.html (7710 words)

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		The actual organization was finalized due to the hostage-taking activities of the M-19 leftist guerrillas In 1981 Lehder called a war council with the heads of two other leading cocaine-producing families of Colombia, namely Jorge Luis Ochoa Vasquez and Pablo Escobar Gaviria.
		Carlos Lehder even made an unfortunate remark that lent more credibility to the "Narc-FARC" narco-terrorist conspiracy myth: "Cocaine is the atom bomb with which we will destroy U.S. imperialism." - this from the leader of a syndicate which reinvest approximately half of its profits into the U.S. economy.
		The drug traffickers' alliances with leftist rebels against the government, or with right-wing elements in the security forces against leftist revolutionaries, have been purely tactical in nature and intended by the drug traffickers at preserving their relative autonomy in a fractured and weak Colombian state.
	www.isu.edu /~andesean/columb.txt (2949 words)

	Blow: An American Epidemic, The Story Behind the Movies, Chapter 1 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Within a few years of their discharge from Danbury Correctional Facility, Jung and his cell mate Lehder (who was also serving time for marijuana possession) found a way to do business together.
		Carlos had a plan: To flood America with cocaine which would destroy the political and moral structure of the United States.
		As Carlos liked to say (scroll down 60%): Cocaine was the atomic bomb, and he was going to drop it on America.
	www.lawbuzz.com /movies/blow/blow_story_ch1.htm (130 words)

	History of drugs in the Bahamas [Archive] - Bahamas Issues Bahamian Web Community
		Recently, a Bahamian political weblog posted a claim that Carlos Lehder - the notorious Colombian drug lord sentenced to life imprisonment in Florida in 1988 - was living comfortably with his wife on Paradise Island.
		Lehder's social activities were also legendary: "Orgies," his one-time associate told Frontline.
		Lehder's Bahamian empire collapsed in mid-1983, when NBC television broke the news that Bahamian officials were on the payroll of Colombian drug lords.
	www.bahamasissues.com /archive/index.php/t-4642-p-1.html (3667 words)

	The Chandra Levy Affair, Pt 2
		Lehder is the only drug cartel baron to have been extradited to the U.S. where he was put on trial on federal criminal charges, convicted, and originally sentenced to more than a life term.
		Carlos Lehder fought extradition to the U.S. For that purpose, he arranged to shoot up the Colombia Supreme Court Building.
		Carlos Lehder was finally arrested and extradited to the U.S. He became a key witness in the dope trial against Panama strongman Manuel Noriega who had been seized by the Elder Bush as President and his Miliary/CIA.
	www.rense.com /general12/levy.htm (2802 words)

	Bahama Pundit: Carlos Lehder's Bahamian Legacy
		Recently, a Bahamian political weblog posted a claim that Carlos Lehder - the notorious Colombian drug lord sentenced to life imprisonment in Florida in 1988 - was living comfortably with his wife on Paradise Island.
		Lehder's Bahamian empire collapsed in mid-1983, when NBC television broke the news that Bahamian officials were on the payroll of Colombian drug lords.
		Lehder moved back to Colombia in 1983 where he was eventually captured and extradited to the US.
	www.bahamapundit.com /2006/07/carlos_lehders_.html (1775 words)

	BadGalsRadio - Fo Real Doh !! » Blog Archive » Carlos Lehder’s Bahamian Legacy - Who Said he was in ...
		The facts are that from 1978 to 1982 Lehder operated one of the world’s biggest cocaine rings from Norman’s Cay in the Exumas.
		Rather than reporting that Talavera was engaged to Lehder — which he claims he could not establish — Webb wrote in Dark Alliance that she was the “girlfriend” of convicted San Francisco Bay Area drug dealer Rafael Cornejo.
		The Treasury report stated that in 1987 (when she was 23) — the same year that Lehder was captured and would have begun hiding his assets — Talavera had founded a “Bohemian” company called Capital Investment Group (CIG) with an initial capitalization of $10 million.
	badgals-radio.com /?p=632 (9228 words)

	HOSTAGES: A Multi-Part FTW Special Investigation - A.I.G.
		Lehder, arrested in 1987, was allowed to keep almost $3 billion in assets in a move severely criticized by Merkle.
		She additionally made it clear that Lehder was out of prison, working for the United States government and directly connected to the CIA and the U.S. Treasury.
		So, with the exception of the statement that neither she nor Carlos Lehder had anything to do with the founding of Coral Re, almost all of Talavera's statements regarding her history have been shown to be false.
	www.fromthewilderness.com /free/ciadrugs/part_2.html (6527 words)

	Costs to Society : Terrorism
		Carlos Lehder : Drug trafficker Carlos Lehder declared that "cocaine and marijuana have become an arm of the struggle against America." He told a Spanish television interviewer in 1985 that cocaine was the "atomic bomb" with which to fight United States imperialism and spark revolution in Latin America.
		Abimael Guzman : Known by his followers in Peru as "President Gonzalo," Abimael Guzman was the founder of the Sendero Luminoso, or the Shining Path in the late 1960s.
		Guzman, a former university professor, derived the name of the organization from the teachings of Jose Carlos Mariategui, an avowed Marxist, who once stated that Marxism was a "shining path to the future." Guzman and the Shining Path, however, have followed Maoist teachings from Communist China as well as Leninism and Marxism.
	www.justthinktwice.com /costs/Terrorism.cfm (760 words)

	Sherman Skolnick's Report
		Lehder is the only drug cartel baron to have been extradited to the U.S. where he was put on trial on federal criminal charges, convicted, and originally sentenced to more than a life term.
		Carlos Lehder fought extradition to the U.S. For that purpose, he arranged to shoot up the Colombia Supreme Court Building.
		Carlos Lehder was finally arrested and extradited to the U.S. He became a key witness in the dope trial against Panama strongman Manuel Noriega who had been seized by the Elder Bush as President and his Miliary/CIA.
	www.skolnicksreport.com /claffair2.html (2921 words)

	frontline: drug wars: interviews \| PBS
		For many years, he was a personal pilot for Carlos Lehder, a kingpin in Colombia's Medellin drug cartel.
		He became involved in the Medellin cartel in the early 1980s when Carlos Lehder invited him into the business as the cartel's public relations representative, managing political pay-offs, bribes and money laundering.
		He was a star undercover informant for the DEA netting 445 dealer arrests and seizing 1.5 tons of cocaine and $6 million in assets.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/interviews (818 words)

	TIME.com: Colombia -- Feb. 16, 1987 -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This is Carlos Lehder Rivas." Dressed in a T shirt and blue jeans, Lehder muttered, "This is the one place I never expected you'd catch me."
		The baby-faced Lehder, 37, is a leader of the Medellin cartel, a powerful crime cabal that is said to supply 80% of the world's cocaine.
		Lehder is only one of the cartel's half a dozen barons, and there is speculation that he may have been set up by one of his brethren who found the arrogant Lehder too power hungry.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,963534,00.html (691 words)

	Rigorous Intuition (v. 2.0): Moonshadow (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Carlos Lehder chased away the local population and began to assume total control of the island, Bahamian Prime Minister Lynden Pindling, believed to have taken massive amounts of money in bribes from Lehder and associates, did nothing.
		Lehder was captured in the jungle, and lost his fight against extradition.
		In 1987 (when she was 23) -- the same year that Lehder was captured and would have begun hiding his assets -- Talavera had founded a "Bohemian" company called Capital Investment Group (CIG) with an initial capitalization of $10 million.
	rigint.blogspot.com /2006/10/moonshadow.html (12546 words)

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		Lehder was driving into the town of Ingolstadt.
		Lehder had the list still in his hand but instead of making his other two calls, he was pacing the room nervously.
		I would not want to miss the next calls Lehder was about to make but since he was taking his time kicking walls, I turned my attention to the view of that racing car.
	www.geocities.com /touxxaint1/book2.txt (22150 words)

	NewWorldPeace.com
		During her internship at BOP, Levy was inquiring into “a great little-mentioned secret,” the unexplained disappearance from the federal prison system of Carlos Enrique Lehder Rivas, also known as Carlos Lehder, according to Skolnick.
		Lehder is the only drug cartel baron to have been extradited to the United States where he was put on trial on federal criminal charges, convicted, and originally sentenced to more than a life term.
		The Medellin Drug Cartel, co-founded by Carlos Lehder, a Bush family business partner, was headquartered in the United States rather than Colombia, according to Skolnick.
	www.newworldpeace.com /sum1b.html (1292 words)

	Blow: An American Epidemic, The Story Behind the Movies, Chapter 10 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		As the first witness in the government’s case against Carlos Lehder (who had lost his extradition battle), George (with Pablo Escobar’s blessing) testified in a Jacksonville, Florida courtroom.
		In the end, Carlos was convicted and sentenced to life with no possibility of parole plus 135 years.
		Despite the protests of officials like Robert Merkle, the U.S. Attorney who had tried Lehder, the "powers that be" granted Lehder some kind of consideration.
	www.lawbuzz.com /movies/blow/blow_story_ch10.htm (275 words)

	News of a Kidnapping by Ziel
		Carlos Lehder was extradited and tried in 1987 in Jacksonville Florida sentenced in 1988 to life in prison on a drug and conspiracy conviction.
		Maruja Pachon was the sister of Gloria Pachon the widow of Luis Carlos Galan.
		Mauruja worked on the campaign with Luis Carlos Galan, who began to scrutinize Escobar and the Medellin splinter group with a plan to clean out the bureaucracy.
	www.nyu.edu /classes/keefer/joe/ziel.html (1897 words)

	Carlos Lehder: ZoomInfo Business People Information (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The 40 million dollars was reportedly dope trafficking funds from U.S./Colombia Medellin Dope Cartel Co-Founder Carlos Lehder.
		According to outspoken drug enforcement current and former officials, Lehder is the private business partner of the Bush Family.
		Lehder is a reputed business partner of the Bush Family.
	www.zoominfo.com /directory/Lehder_Carlos_17729238.htm (345 words)

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