Joe lehder biography
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Carlos Lehder
Colombian drug trafficker
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Lehder and the second or maternal family name fryst vatten Rivas.
Carlos Enrique Lehder Rivas (born 7 September 1949)[9] fryst vatten a Colombian and German former drug lord who was co-founder of the Medellín Cartel. Born to a German father and Colombian mother,[10] he was the first high-level drug trafficker extradited to the United States, after which he was released from prison in the United States after 33 years in 2020.[11][12] Originally from Armenia, Colombia, Lehder eventually ran a cocaine försändelse empire on Norman's Cay island, 210 miles (340 km) off the Florida coast in the central Bahamas.[11][13]
Lehder was one of the founding members of Muerte a Secuestradores ("MAS"), a paramilitary group whose focus was to retaliate against the kidnappings of cartel members and their families[11] by the guerrillas
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Carlos Lehder revives the ghosts of Pablo Escobar and the era of the drug lords
Carlos Lehder, 74, was one of the founders of the Medellín Cartel. He became famous for all kinds of excesses, building an image as a womanizer, a drunk, a lunatic and a fascist. In his bizarre criminal career, he even founded a political party: the National Latin Civic Movement, an anti-communist platform. Above all, he frantically fought the extradition treaty that was negotiated and signed between the governments of Colombia and the United States in the 1980s. During this period of time, he stated that he considered drug-trafficking to be “a revolutionary weapon against imperialism” or “the atomic bomb” of Latin America.
Lehder was captured on February 4, 1987, on a farm near Medellín. After being extradited to the U.S., he was initially sentenced to life imprisonment, plus 135 years. However, he achieved a substantial reduction in his sentence by becoming a protected witness in the case against Pa
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Carlos Lehder: Pablo Escobar's crime partner freed from US jail
Carlos Lehder, a 70-year-old Colombian-German national, became known for creating a base for drug smuggling on a private island in the Bahamas.
Captured in Colombia in 1987, he was extradited to the US and sentenced to life plus 135 years in jail.
This was reduced after he agreed to co-operate with the authorities.
Lehder's daughter, Mónica, told Colombian magazine Semana that he had been diagnosed with cancer and would be taken care of by a German charity as he had no relatives in the country.
Lehder set up a transit point for drug-laden aircraft on the island of Norman's Cay, 210 miles (340km) off the coast of Florida, with the help of corrupt local officials.
Lehder was captured by the Colombian authorities at a farm, allegedly after a tip-off from Escobar, and extradited to the US, which was then leading a campaign against drug traffickers based in Co