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When Ivan Duques dad confronted Alvaro Uribe over Medellin Cartel licenses
by Adriaan Alsema April 3, 2018
It was 1981, and Governor Ivan Duque reportedly called the country’s aviation chief, Alvaro Uribe, to warn him about a license granted to a known Medellin Cartel associate.
The cartel associate was Jaime Cardona, according to former journalist Joseph Contreras who would become Newsweek´s Latin America editor after his 2002 biography on Colombia´s former president.
Cardona had been caught with 530 kilos of cocaine in 1977 and has since been mentioned as one of Pablo Escobar‘s initial money launderers.
. . .
What Duque didn’t know was that the Uribe family was also close to Escobar. Uribe’s father was close friends with Fabio Ochoa, the patriarch of the Ochoa clan that would help form the Medellin cartel in 1982.
More:
https://colombiareports.com/when-ivan-duques-dad-confronted-alvaro-uribe-over-medellin-cartel-licenses/
