He will not face any legal action from German authorities, as he has already served his prison sentence in the US. Every evening at UTC, DW's editors send out a selection of the day's hard news and quality feature journalism. You can sign up to receive it directly here. At the height of his rule, narco-kingpin Pablo Escobar imported a few hippos for his private zoo.
Four decades later, they've gone feral and multiplied, and no one knows quite what to do with them. Colombian authorities are trying to change the image around the "cocaine king. For decades now, cocaine worth billions of dollars has financed the FARC's war on the Colombian government. Now the guerrillas have signed a peace deal, but several groups could take over their lucrative cocaine trade. Visit the new DW website Take a look at the beta version of dw.
Go to the new dw. More info OK. Wrong language? Noriega, he testified, received a cash commission for every kilo shipped through his country and for every dollar laundered in a Panamanian bank. He wound up outliving both of his more powerful partners.
Escobar died in a police shootout in Medellin in , and Noriega died of a brain tumor in a Panamanian prison in He had lived in New York as a teenager — sent there by his German engineer father and Colombian mother upon their divorce at age At age 18, he was arrested in New York for trying to sell pounds of marijuana, earning two years in a detention center, and after his release, he was deported to Colombia, where he continued in the business.
On Monday, after 33 years in prison, Lehder was taken to Berlin, to be cared for by a charity, said his lawyer, Oscar Arroyave. Contact The Author Name required. Email required. His erratic behavior and shrewdness distinguished him among a generation of cartel figures renowned for brutality and treachery. Mike Vigil, former director of international operations at the US Drug Enforcement Administration, interviewed Lehder at a US prison soon after his arrest in and said his intelligence was immediately apparent.
Living in New York City, he got involved in petty crime and was eventually arrested for car theft, which landed him in federal prison in Connecticut, where his cellmate was George Jung , a fellow smuggler and subject of the movie "Blow.
Jung and Lehder were released in the late s and started working together. Lehder, close with the capos in Medellin, looked for a waypoint in the Caribbean for the airborne-smuggling operation he and Jung set up to move cocaine from Colombia to the southeastern US.
They settled on Norman's Cay in the Bahamas, about miles southeast of Miami. But on Norman's Cay, Lehder's instability, fueled by cocaine, came to the fore. He eventually forced Jung out of their partnership. As Jung told High Times in , "Walter Cronkite showed up there, and these thugs came with machine guns and told him, 'You better leave. Even among a generation of very violent traffickers, Lehder was renowned for being erratic.
Lehder relocated to Colombia, building a hacienda and spreading money around Armenia, the district in west-central Colombia where he was born. He built a statue of John Lennon on his front lawn and gave the state government an airplane as a gift. Mayor angry over hit 'glorifying Escobar' Atoning for the sins of a brother. The island of Norman's Cay, seen here in , had a 2km landing strip for aircraft. Image source, Bettmann via Getty Images. Lehder was extradited to the US right after being captured in Colombia in This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.
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