Hard time believing this . Will need more proof .
The Columbia part is interesting.
Really interesting article for those not familiar.
Pablo Escobar is remembered as the face of the Medellin cartel, the Colombian criminal organisation that flooded the world with cocaine in the 1980s.
But for all his deeds and bluster, Escobar was just one member of a clan of traffickers who helped create the Medellin cartel.
And in terms of narco eccentricities, one Medellin capo stands out: Carlos Lehder Rivas.
Born to a German father and Colombian mother in Armenia, a district in west-central Colombia, in 1949, Lehder spent most of his childhood in Colombia.
But after his parents separated, he relocated to New York City when he was 15, Colombian newspaper El Espectador reported in 2012.
Jung and Lehder were released in the late 1970s, but they soon hooked up again, setting up an airborne-smuggling operation that moved cocaine from Colombia to the southeastern US.
The Columbia part is interesting.
Really interesting article for those not familiar.
Pablo Escobar is remembered as the face of the Medellin cartel, the Colombian criminal organisation that flooded the world with cocaine in the 1980s.
But for all his deeds and bluster, Escobar was just one member of a clan of traffickers who helped create the Medellin cartel.
And in terms of narco eccentricities, one Medellin capo stands out: Carlos Lehder Rivas.
Born to a German father and Colombian mother in Armenia, a district in west-central Colombia, in 1949, Lehder spent most of his childhood in Colombia.
But after his parents separated, he relocated to New York City when he was 15, Colombian newspaper El Espectador reported in 2012.
Jung and Lehder were released in the late 1970s, but they soon hooked up again, setting up an airborne-smuggling operation that moved cocaine from Colombia to the southeastern US.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A recently released FBI document indicates that a commercial airline pilot who became a major drug smuggler for the Medellín Cartel used the Mena airport for his smuggling operation in the early 1980s.
The “extensive joint investigation” by the FBI, Arkansas State Police and IRS disclosed in the May, 1986, FBI memo released last week, that pilot Barry Seal admitted to smuggling large quantities of cocaine from Colombia to the United States and testified before a Senate investigative committee prior to his death.
Seal was killed in February 1986 during a hail of machine-gun fire outside a Baton Rouge Salvation Army halfway house after allegedly crossing Pablo Escobar and the Medellín drug cartel, according to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. He conducted his smuggling operation from Baton Rouge to Rich Mountain Aviation at the Mena Intermountain Airport.
The FBI in Little Rock began investigating Seal’s operation at the Mena airport in February 1984, according to the recently released FBI document. After a barrage of requests from different people and media outlets under the federal Freedom of Information Act, last Wednesday the FBI released more than 1,000 pages of its file on Seal. Many names in the documents have been redacted, however.
FBI memo reveals drug smuggling at Mena airport in 1980s
Who cares? They are all dead now.
Unless you are simply interested in how it happened and why, then I apologize. I like history too and think it is a wild and interesting story. I mean ****, there are Bavarian towns in Chile to this day.
I just hope this doesn't turn into an outrage situation over people who are already dead. We have real problems right now. History expedition? Cool.
I'd hate to see our elected officials need another do nothing session...Who cares? They are all dead now.
Unless you are simply interested in how it happened and why, then I apologize. I like history too and think it is a wild and interesting story. I mean ****, there are Bavarian towns in Chile to this day.
I just hope this doesn't turn into an outrage situation over people who are already dead. We have real problems right now. History expedition? Cool with me.
I'm just going to put this here for later.
A tribute to the loved and respected Senator Byrd (Sen. Mitch McConnell)
BY SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH MCCONNELL (KY.) - 06/28/10 6:43 PM ET
Secretary Clinton Comments on the Passing of Robert Byrd