Pablo Escobar's direct associate and one of those responsible for the most violent stage in the country, has been released / Upon arrival in Colombia he did not show regret: "This case was set up for me”
“I'm not sorry for what I did. I'm not responsible. This case was set up for me.” Fabio Ochoa Vásquez has returned to Medellín. The former kingpin of the Medellín cartel, a member of one of the great drug trafficking families in the history of Colombia (and also internationally) was transferred on Christmas Eve to his city after serving a 26-year prison sentence in the United States. He landed escorted by the Colombian Migration Department as a deportee, authorities who released him after making sure that he had no outstanding accounts with the justice system. Ochoa arrives a few days after the contents of the letter from Miguel Rodríguez Orejuela, capo of the Cali cartel, addressed to President Gustavo Petro from his confinement in Philadelphia, were known. Very recently, alias Chupeta, the historical leader of the Norte del Valle cartel, was also released from prison.
Ochoa is the third of the big names of the criminal organization that once operated under the orders of Pablo Escobar who is released (his brother Jorge and Carlos Lehder did it before). It began in the 1980s and experienced the most intense moments of struggle between the capos and the authorities and between the narcos themselves, with the disputes against the Cali cartel of the Rodríguez Orejuela brothers and the confrontations against the different governments.
The Ochoa family remained associated with Escobar for years. At that time, some of its members were the ones who made the leap to Europe (with Jorge, Fabio's brother, as the spearhead) to, in alliance with the Honduran Ramón Matta Ballesteros, seal the alliances with the Galician drug traffickers that will last in 2025 for the shipment of large cocaine caches. Those pacts were closed 40 years ago, after Ochoa and Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela fled to Spain after the murder of Minister Lara Bonilla.
Fabio Ochoa surrendered in 1990 to the Colombian authorities relying on a non-extradition agreement to the United States. However, and after serving six years in prison and being released, he would be arrested again in a DEA operation, being sentenced to 30 years in prison of which he has served 26 until his release.
After landing at the El Dorado airport, in Bogotá, where he was received by a tide of media, the youngest of the Ochoa clan is already in his native Medellín.
“I'm not sorry for what I did. I'm not responsible. This case was set up for me.” Fabio Ochoa Vásquez has returned to Medellín. The former kingpin of the Medellín cartel, a member of one of the great drug trafficking families in the history of Colombia (and also internationally) was transferred on Christmas Eve to his city after serving a 26-year prison sentence in the United States. He landed escorted by the Colombian Migration Department as a deportee, authorities who released him after making sure that he had no outstanding accounts with the justice system. Ochoa arrives a few days after the contents of the letter from Miguel Rodríguez Orejuela, capo of the Cali cartel, addressed to President Gustavo Petro from his confinement in Philadelphia, were known. Very recently, alias Chupeta, the historical leader of the Norte del Valle cartel, was also released from prison.
Ochoa is the third of the big names of the criminal organization that once operated under the orders of Pablo Escobar who is released (his brother Jorge and Carlos Lehder did it before). It began in the 1980s and experienced the most intense moments of struggle between the capos and the authorities and between the narcos themselves, with the disputes against the Cali cartel of the Rodríguez Orejuela brothers and the confrontations against the different governments.
The Ochoa family remained associated with Escobar for years. At that time, some of its members were the ones who made the leap to Europe (with Jorge, Fabio's brother, as the spearhead) to, in alliance with the Honduran Ramón Matta Ballesteros, seal the alliances with the Galician drug traffickers that will last in 2025 for the shipment of large cocaine caches. Those pacts were closed 40 years ago, after Ochoa and Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela fled to Spain after the murder of Minister Lara Bonilla.
Fabio Ochoa surrendered in 1990 to the Colombian authorities relying on a non-extradition agreement to the United States. However, and after serving six years in prison and being released, he would be arrested again in a DEA operation, being sentenced to 30 years in prison of which he has served 26 until his release.
After landing at the El Dorado airport, in Bogotá, where he was received by a tide of media, the youngest of the Ochoa clan is already in his native Medellín.
