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Colombia's chief prosecutor thus became the latest victim in a vicious battle between the government and a group of billionaire drug traffickers known as the Medellin cartel. Hoyos had advocated the reinstatement of a 1979 extradition treaty with the U.S. that had resulted in the deportation of 16 alleged drug traffickers before Colombia's Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional last year...
...indictment says that Noriega, after he took control of Panama in 1983, "utilized his official positions to provide protection for international criminal narcotics traffickers," including the Medellin Cartel, said to be responsible for 80 percent of the cocaine reaching the United States...
Noriega also allegedly arranged for the shipment of cocaine processing chemicals, including those seized by Panamanian police agencies and allowed the cartel to construct a cocaine laboratory in Panama's Darien province...
Noriega laundered millions of dollars of the cartel's narcotics proceeds in Panamanian banks, prosecutors said...
When Colombia's anti-drug minister of justice, Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, was assassinated by traffickers, Noriega allowed the cartel leaders to shift their operations to Panama to escape a crackdown in their own country...