Colombia recently welcomed back one of its infamous drug lords, Fabio Ochoa, following his deportation from the United States. Ochoa, a key figure in the notorious Medellin cartel, had completed 25 years of a 30-year prison sentence in the U.S. before being released and sent back to his home country.
Upon his arrival at Bogota’s El Dorado airport, Ochoa was met by immigration officials and was allowed to join his family after his fingerprints were taken and it was confirmed that he was not wanted by Colombian authorities. The 67-year-old former cartel boss, along with his older brothers, had amassed a significant fortune during the peak of cocaine trafficking in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
