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Without doubt, he was the most pampered prisoner in all Colombia. Drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, the head of the Medellin cocaine cartel who surrendered 13 months ago in exchange for a promise of no extradition to the U.S., was locked up in a suite in a luxurious prison of his own design in his hometown of Envigado. By most accounts, Escobar continued to run his billion-dollar business from behind the walls. So when Colombia's director of prisons and a deputy minister of justice entered the jail last week to tell Escobar he was being transferred to a harsher...
...ROBERTO STRIEDINGER, the Medellin drug cartel's top guy in the U.S., will spend five years in a minimum-security facility and keep millions of dollars in drug profits and his collection of military assault rifles...
DAVID RODRIGO ORTIZ-HERMIDA, a cartel drug pilot, will serve just 120 days and then get placed in the federal witness-protection program...
...political issue. The country has become a principal gateway for South American cocaine, Middle Eastern heroin and North African hashish. Although the government has stepped up enforcement, its combat against the drug trade is uneven. Colombian Justice Minister Fernando Carrillo Florez recently charged that "the battle against the Medellin cartel is being lost because of Spanish bureaucratic hassles" in delivering evidence against dealers...
...informant named Barry Seal was involved in something fishy at the airport in Mena, a heavily wooded town 130 miles west of Little Rock. In 1984 Seal played a part in Oliver North's campaign to prove that the Sandinista government was in league with Colombia's Medellin cocaine cartel. In exchange for a reduced sentence on drug-smuggling charges, Seal flew his C-123 transport plane to Managua and picked up 750 kilos of cocaine from a high-ranking Sandinista official, recording the transaction with hidden cameras...