Word: cartels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...indictment accuses cartel leader Pablo Escobar Gaviria of organizing the assasination of Colombian Justice Minister Lara Bonilla on April 29, 1984, and says Escobar and Fabio Ocho Vasquez directed the February 19, 1986 slaying of former Drug Enforcement Administration informant Barry Seal...
Other major figures indicted were cartel kingpins Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha, Jorge Ochoa Vasquez, Fabio Ochoa Vasquez and Gonzalo Mejia...
Most of the cartel members were indicted earlier in Miami, but none have been taken into custody...
Also indicted was Jack Carlton Reed, co-defendant of the cartel leader...
...indictment traces Lehder's development into a primary overseas transporter of cocaine for other Medellin Cartel members, and his continued association with these members after they developed their own transportation operations," Genzman said...