'” Jung said a “cash register started ringing up in my head,” and after the pair’s release in the late 1970s, they revolutionized the smuggling of cocaine by bringing it into the southeastern U.S. from Colombia by the planeload. “There were other people that lived there, but they started to drive them out, and Carlos Lehder started to develop kind of like a neo-Nazi group there, that would protect the planeloads of coke and intimidate the people that lived there,” Mike Vigil, a former chief of international operations for the DEA, told Business Insider. Allegedly, Escobar gave up Lehder’s location to Colombian authorities and, on February 4, 1987, Lehder became the first to be extradited under the treaty between Colombia and the U.S. that he had so fiercely battled as a politician.
Author: Daniel Rennie
Published at: 2025-04-20 22:00:00
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