Those conversations would last three years, during which time Wright came to realize that Roberts was much more than the de facto “transportation chief” of the Medellín Cartel during the 1980s, much more than a facilitator of a national drug epidemic.
Apocalipsur tells the story of a group of friends in 1991 Medellín, when Medellín was dominated by Pablo Escobar's Medellín Cartel and its rival los Pepes.
Fabio Ochoa Restrepo (1923-2002), father, Colombian rancher and patriarch of a notorious crime family associated with the Medellín Cartel
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It is widely believed that the Medellín Cartel was responsible for the attack, in an attempt to assassinate DAS director Miguel Maza Márquez, who escaped unharmed.
Gallo also appears on the Discovery Channel show Flipped: A Mobster Tells All Kenny "Kenji" Gallo and Spike TV's Deadliest Warrior, where he served as an expert for the Medellin Cartel in "Somali Pirates vs. Medellin Cartel."
In 1980, Max Mermelstein, an American associate of the Medellin Cartel, was introduced to Jon Roberts, who was in need of a direct supplier of cocaine into the United States.
Originally founded by former Popular Liberation Army guerilla Diego Murillo Bejarano, aka Don Berna, as an enforcement wing for the Medellín Cartel, it is made up of an endless pool of Pablo Escobar's most brutal street gangs, killers for hire and sicarios; young assassins from the lower-estrato neighborhoods of Medellín.
Other major Medellín cartel associates fled to the protection of Manuel Noriega in Panama, but when Pablo Escobar discovered Noriega was plotting to betray him to the U.S. in return for amnesty, the cartel associates then fled to Nicaragua to seek the assistance of Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega.
Fabio Ochoa Vásquez (born 1957), son, convicted drug trafficker and former ranking member of the Medellín Cartel
Turning the Tide: One Man Against the Medellin Cartel ISBN 978-0-451-40317-9 (with Peter Abrahams), (pub. 1991) a novelized account of a conflict which took place in the Bahamas between drug baron Carlos Lehder and an American professor Richard Novak's investigating hammerhead sharks there.