Colombia’s migration authority jailed Medellin Cartel founder Carlos Lehder after he arrived in the capital Bogota on Friday. Lehder was detained on El Dorado Airport while trying to enter the country ...

Carlos Lehder, former drug trafficker and one of the founding leaders of the Medellin cartel, was arrested today ... an arrest warrant in force,” Colombia migration authorities said on X ...

Some historians in Colombia attribute 10,000 killings to cartel leader Pablo Escobar. Ochoa was one of the cartel's key operators at the time and lived for several years in Miami where he ran a ...

As InSight Crime estimates, the Medellin Cartel earned around ... one of the most notorious leaders of the Medellín Cartel, ...

Olaf Kyros Gustafsson, a.k.a. "El Silencio," has been accused of running a global scam in which he sold Pablo Escobar-branded ...

Lehder was sentenced to life plus 135 years in prison in 1988 after a Florida court convicted him of cocaine trafficking.

Medellín’s thriving music scene is more than just reggaetón. It’s a movement reshaping tourism, culture, and community in ...

The cartel rose to prominence in the late 1980s and operated until 1995, running production out of Bolivia, Peru, and Colombia. It was controlled by Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela, Miguel Rodríguez ...

Colombia’s Supreme Court has opened a criminal investigation ... since the late 1970’s when the former president granted many dozens of licenses to Medellin Cartel aircraft and landing strips. Despite ...

Medellin, Colombia’s second-largest city, was home to an internationally feared drug cartel and gained notoriety for its high murder rates. But by 2023, the homicide rate in Medellin had ...