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	Medellín Cartel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Medellín Cartel was a well-organized but very loose network of drug smugglers originating in the city of Medellín in Colombia and operating through the 1970s and 1980s.
		Other noted figures involved in, or connected with the cartel include the Ochoa family, Carlos Lehder and George Jung.
		It existed in permanent conflict with the Cali Cartel and from the early 80s onward, the Colombian government.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Medellin_Cartel (175 words)

	CNN.com - Colombian drug kingpin convicted of charges he rejoined the drug trade - May. 29, 2003
		A founder of Colombia's former Medellin drug cartel was convicted of charges he rejoined a smuggling network after he was given amnesty.
		A founder of Colombia's former Medellin drug cartel was convicted Wednesday of charges he rejoined a smuggling network after he was released from prison and given amnesty.
		The Medellin cartel was accused of sending as much as 30 tons of cocaine a month into the United States.
	www.cnn.com /2003/LAW/05/28/drug.kingpin.conviction (672 words)

	USATODAY.com - Former Medellin drug boss extradited to U.S. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		MIAMI (AP) — His peaceful bid to avoid extradition ended, Colombian drug kingpin Fabio Ochoa was delivered to the United States on Saturday to face charges that he belonged to a gang that smuggled in 30 tons of cocaine a month.
		Ochoa, a former top leader of the notorious Medellin cartel, is the highest-profile Colombian sent to face charges in the United States since Colombia revived extraditions in 1997.
		Under the Medellin cartel's pressure, extradition was declared unconstitutional in 1991.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2001/09/07/colombia-drug-boss.htm (646 words)

	Mena Myth 1
		Seal had single handedly placed the Medellin Cartel on a silver platter for the Federal Government as a result his becoming an informant and setting up a drug sting in Nicaragua.
		He put together a drug sting involving the leadership of the Medellin Cartel and resulted in the now infamous Nicaraguan drug string.
		I performed over 30 high level drug stings as a contract pilot, testified in many trials as a government witness, and suffered attempts on my life, as well as, the dangers of being out front as a deep undercover operative.
	www.csun.edu /CommunicationStudies/ben/news/cia/mena/970307.mena1.html (1079 words)

	Medellin Spain - Bogota Center
		MEDELLIN on the River Porce, 147 miles from Bogotá, and 4600 feet...
		Cortés, Hernán (c.1485-1547). Born in Medellin Spain and arrived in Hispaniola in 1504. Led the third expedition to Mexico in 1519...
		It is 1499 in the village of Medellin in Entremedura, Spain.
	www.donshomes.com /medellin-spain.html (364 words)

	New Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		His death put the final nail in the coffin of the Medellín drug cartel, but simultaneously made way for a new cartel, the Cali, to take over.
		He was not just a drug dealer; he was not just a murderer or terrorist; he was a man whose broad vision clashed with the governments of two countries.
		He was a man so powerful that he could set his own terms of surrender; he could build his own (luxurious) prison and come and go as he pleased; he could force a country to amend its constitution so he could avoid extradition.
	home.wlu.edu /~norwooda/gs/bookreview.html (1664 words)

	HIDDEN PAST OF EXTREMIST PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE : SF Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Firstly, is Uribe's record as mayor of Medellin in the early 1980s when the city was known as "The Sanctuary" due to the complete protection that the traffickers enjoyed from the city administration.
		Thirdly was Uribe's performance as a senator between 1986 and 1994 when he consistently supported legislation that the drug cartels supported and consistently opposed that which they opposed.
		The fourth piece of evidence that Garavito mentioned in his article was that Uribe came from a drug trafficking family himself, thus he would have been brought up in an environment where, presumably, it would have been considered acceptable, if kept out of sight, to be involved in such a business.
	sf.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=118613 (839 words)

	globalinfo.org - May 19, COLOMBIA (#37055) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The possible extradition on drug trafficking charges of several leaders of the right-wing paramilitary umbrella, the United Self-Defence Forces of Colombia (AUC), is hanging like a sword of Damocles over the negotiations that are taking place behind closed doors between the government of Alvaro Uribe and the paramilitaries.
		The two drug cartels, which set up death squads in 1982 that served as the seed for paramilitary groups, were involved in a bloody war over the lucrative U.S. market for cocaine.
		Other alleged drug traffickers are also reportedly using the AUC to avoid extradition by posing as paramilitary leaders and taking part in the negotiations.
	www.globalinfo.org /eng/reader.asp?ArticleId=37055 (1297 words)

	News of a Kidnapping by Ziel
		The abductions of ten individuals by drug traffickers hoping to prevent their extradition to the United States is intense and dramatic as the narrative shifts on all levels.
		Columbia finally managed to dismantle the most vicious drug cartel in the world who had been responsible for the death of 60,000 people within five years including 1,000 policemen, 60 judges, 70 journalists, 1,500 leftists union and political leaders, an attorney general, two cabinet ministers, four presidential candidates, a governor, and several police chiefs.
		On September 2, 1997 in Medellin, the Administrative Department of Security, Director-General Luis Enrique Montenegro Rinco, described the seizure of many of deceased Pablo Escobar Gaviria's assets as a new blow to the infrastructure of the Medellin drug cartels.
	www.nyu.edu /classes/keefer/joe/ziel.html (1897 words)

	frontline: drug wars: archive: guns, drugs, and the cia \| PBS
		Say for instance, the drug group was involved in a war with a terrorist group, a communist terrorist group, well, it would behove the CIA to give that drug group as much help and advice as possible so they could win their little war.
		When the drug traffic became a real problem to the American troops in Vietnam, then the CIA was asked by President to get involved in the program to limit that traffic and stop it.
		His disgust was not only at the drug trade, but at the human cost of a war in which the recruits were as young as eight years old.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/archive/gunsdrugscia.html (6726 words)

	CNN.com - Alleged drug kingpin arrives in U.S. - September 8, 2001
		The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) claims Ochoa and his co-conspirators took part in a trafficking scheme in which 20 to 30 tons of cocaine per month were smuggled into the United States and Europe through Mexico.
		He is among the highest-ranking drug traffickers to be extradited to the United States.
		Authorities blame the Medellin Cartel for a wave of violence in Colombia that resulted in car bombings and the killings of Colombian officials, including police, judges, an attorney general and a presidential candidate.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/US/09/08/ochoa.extradited (826 words)

	Avianca Flight 203 -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The bombing of Flight 203 was the worst single criminal attack in the many decades of Colombian violence.
		The (additional info and facts about Medellin drug cartel) Medellin drug cartel claimed responsibility for planting the bomb, saying it was targeting (additional info and facts about Cesar Gaviria Trujillo) Cesar Gaviria Trujillo, the leading candidate in the presidential elections, although he was not on the plane.
		(additional info and facts about Dandeny Munoz-Mosquera) Dandeny Munoz-Mosquera, the cheif assasin for the Medellin Cartel, was convicted in US District Court for the bombing and he was sentenced to 10 consecutive life sentences.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/av/avianca_flight_203.htm (206 words)

	Media Censor CIA Ties With Medellin Drug Cartel
		A key money-launderer for the Medellin cocaine cartel told Congress in February that he worked with the Central Intelligence Agency, but this information was not reported by the New York Times, the Washington Post, or the three major networks, even though all covered the hearings.
		As chief accountant for the Colombian drug cartel, Rodriguez laundered hundreds of millions of dollars in cocaine profits through US banks in Panama.
		Although Sciolino noted that the cartel had $11 billion in assets in the US in 1983, she did not mention Rodriguez's testimony about meeting secretly with people who worked for US banks but were not on the official employment roll.
	www.fair.org /index.php?page=1190 (833 words)

	Brief Void From Demise of Pablo Escobar and Medellin Cartel Being Filled by Cali Cartel
		Six months after the reported demise of the Medellin drug cartel, which used to dominate the world cocaine market, the Cali cartel, its rival for at least eight years, has begun to aggressively expand its drug marketing.
		U.S. agents say that the cartel has used semi-submersible boats, almost like submarines, that carry one ton drug cargos, ride low in the water and are almost invisible to radar.
		The term "cocaine cartel" was probably coined by a journalist or a DEA public relations officer because the term is alliterative, it drew associations with great power and with the "evil" oil cartel that disrupted American gasoline distribution twenty years ago, and it sounded ominous.]
	www.ndsn.org /july94/cali.html (620 words)

	DAWN News from Colombia, Africa and Romania (2000 #17)
		Following her release, she travelled to Medellin with the aim of bringing the gospel to the cartel members, starting in the Bellavista jail.
		However, Pablo was only the first of the 17 members of the Medellin cartel to give his life to Christ; today, another 13 have taken the same step.
		The Medellin cartel was responsible for the bomb.
	www.jesus.org.uk /dawn/2000/dawn0017.html (899 words)

	The New Face of “Peace” in Colombia, by Adam Isacson, January 5, 2004
		In 1991 Pablo Escobar, the boss of Colombia’s Medellín drug cartel, surrendered to authorities in exchange for captivity in a luxurious one-man jail, where he continued to run his illegal empire.
		The incident forced the drug lord to flee his gilded cage and to live as a pampered fugitive until police found and killed him a year later.
		His influence eased the paramilitaries’ almost seamless merger with the drug trade, a merger so profitable that proceeds from drug shipments to the United States and elsewhere allowed the militias to triple in size from 1998 to 2002.
	www.ciponline.org /colombia/040105isac.htm (1692 words)

	MSN Encarta - List of Items - Medellín Drug Cartel
		MSN Encarta - List of Items - Medellín Drug Cartel
		drug conviction of Carlos Lehder Rivas, reputed leader of the cartel
		escalation in the war on drugs, August 1989
	encarta.msn.com /refedlist_210111993/browse.html (51 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Colombian drug kingpin claims credit for police killing of rival Pablo ...
		BOGOTA, Colombia – One of Colombia's biggest drug traffickers, in an interview broadcast Monday, claimed credit for the 1993 killing of rival drug lord Pablo Escobar, saying he supplied police with a tracking device that allowed them to hunt down the Medellin drug cartel leader.
		In a lengthy radio interview taped shortly before he was extradited to Miami over the weekend, Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela described in detail for the first time the extent to which he helped the Colombian government hunt down their common enemy.
		The Cali cartel, run by Rodriguez Orejuela and his brother Miguel, controlled 80 percent of the world's cocaine trade during its heyday in the mid 1990s.
	signonsandiego.com /news/world/20041206-1622-colombia-kingpintalks.html (711 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Cartel
		Cartel, formal or informal agreement among business firms designed to reduce or suppress competition in a particular market.
		After the war Quidde returned to Germany to help rebuild the country’s disheveled peace movement.
		Medellín, death of Pablo Escobar, drug conviction of Carlos Lehder Rivas, reputed leader of the cartel, escalation in the war on drugs, August...
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Cartel.html (94 words)

	Cocaine Trafficker Pablo Escobar Killed in Colombia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Escobar, leader of the Medellin drug cartel, was killed as he and his bodyguards tried to elude police by climbing onto a rooftop of the safehouse where they were hiding, Colombian authorities said.
		Authorities said Escobar opened fire and was met by volleys of return fire from some of the dozens of police and troops who had stalked the drug kingpin to a house on the west side of the city of 1.6 million people.
		Authorities in Medellin told reporters that they had traced Escobar when he telephoned a radio station over the weekend to protest official treatment of his wife and children whose attempt to leave the country was rebuffed.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V113/N62/escobar.62w.html (579 words)

	frontline: drug wars: interviews \| PBS
		He dealt drugs at the local level in New York City, buying large quantities of cocaine, cooking it into crack and selling it on the streets.
		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.
		Landgraff is a group supervisor at the DEA in San Diego and is investigating the Arellano Felix cartel.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/interviews (818 words)

	U-S COLOMBIA DRUGS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Among those arrested by Colombian authorities was Fabio Ochoa, allegedly a former leader of the powerful Medellin drug cartel.
		Ochoa was arrested in the city of Medellin and shouted to reporters that he was innocent as he was led away by police.
		He was released from prison in 1996 after serving a five year sentence on drug trafficking charges.
	www.fas.org /irp/news/1999/10/991013-col1.htm (372 words)

	Tijuana tackles image as seedy destination
		Its name is associated with Mexico's deadliest drug cartel, and its most popular tourist attractions are its cheap booze and prostitutes.
		The committee is looking into teaming up with a fellow sufferer — Medellin, the Colombian city infamous for its Medellin drug cartel.
		It would rather be known as the world's biggest producer of TV sets (up to eight million a year) than for the prostitutes and 25-cent shots of tequila that are available just blocks from the border crossing.
	www.walnet.org /csis/news/world_2002/gandm-020501.html (484 words)

	TheRealityCheck.Org Guest Writer
		In a story resembling a Tom Clancy thriller, a British mercenary accused of conspiring to violate the Arms Export Control Act in connection with a scheme in 1991 to illegally export a US fighter jet intended for use in killing Pablo Escobar, the then-leader of Colombia's Medellin drug cartel was arrested in Texas.
		The investigation into Tomkins began in 1991 when ICE agents in Puerto Rico received word that Tomkins was attempting to buy a fighter jet for use in killing Pablo Escobar, the then-chief of the Medellin drug cartel.
		Federal law enforcement agents learned from an additional source that Tomkins was allegedly being paid $10 million by the rival Cali drug cartel to assassinate Escobar.
	www.therealitycheck.org /GuestColumnist/jkouri090105.htm (711 words)

	americas.org - Ochoa Convicted in U.S. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		War in Colombia: Made in U.S.A. Fabio Ochoa, a leader of the now-disbanded Medellín drug cartel, was convicted May 28 in Miami on two counts of drug conspiracy.
		He was convicted of drug trafficking charges in Colombia in 1991, served more than five years of a sentence, and was freed in 1996 by an amnesty.
		Prosecutors said he formed a new drug cartel after his release.
	www.americas.org /item_13165 (108 words)

	Search Tuna Report for pablo escobar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		During the 1980s, Escobar became known internationally because his drug network,, is said to have controlled a large portion of the drugs that entered into Mexico, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic, with cocaine base brought from Peru and Bolivia....
		By the time Pablo Escobar, the most notorious and murderous drug lord of the Medellin Cartel, was killed by the CNP on a Colombian rooftop in 1993, the cartel had already been severely damaged....
		Pablo Escobar, who amassed a fortune estimated at $3 billion 2 million pounds as head of the Medellin cartel, died in a rooftop shootout with police in December 1993 in the northwestern Colombian city that gave his drug gang its name....
	www.searchtuna.com /ftlive2/3689.html (2246 words)

	#347 AG - Awards Ceremony
		Their investigation revealed that Munoz was responsible for the bombings of Colombian offices and the sabotaging of an Avianca airliner, two incidents in which 187 people were killed and more than 400 injured.
		The hallmark of the investigation was their ability to bring state and federal prosecutors, and numerous law enforcement agencies together to relentlessly pursue and arrest bands of rogue police officers who were involved in corrupt dealings with local drug dealers living within the 30th Precinct.
		Their emotionally and physically exhausting day-to-day supervision of the case eventually led to the demise of Escobar and his murderous associates within the Medellin Mafia, ending the Medellin Cartel and their reign of terror over Colombia.
	www.fas.org /irp/news/1995/950622-347.htm (2305 words)

	NPR : A Family Business
		Morning Edition, October 21, 1999 · As part of a joint investigation between NPR and the PBS documentary series, "Frontline," Deborah Amos talks to members of the notorious Ochoa Family, in Medellin, Colombia.
		The Ochoa's are known as major partners in the Medellin Drug Cartel, running huge amounts of illegal cocaine from the jungles of South America, to the streets of North American cities.
		Family members insist they are no longer in the drug business.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1065596 (153 words)

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