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Encyclopedia > Fabio Ochoa Restrepo

Fabio Ochoa Restrepo ("Don Fabio" 19232002) was a Paso Fino enthusiast, rancher, businessman, and patriarch of a notorious Colombian crime family associated with the Medellín drug cartel of Pablo Escobar. {{year nav|1939 1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar). ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... The Paso Fino is a beautiful, naturally-gaited horse with a history dating back many centuries to Spain. ... A businessman (sometimes businesswoman, female; or businessperson, gender neutral) is a generic term for a wide range of people engaged in profit-oriented enterprises, generally the management of a company. ... For other senses, see Patriarch (disambiguation). ... A crime family is a term used to describe a unit of an organized crime syndicate, often operating within a specific geographic territory. ... The Medellín Cartel was a well-organized network of drug smugglers originating in the city of Medellín in Colombia and operating through the 1970s and 1980s. ... Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria (December 1, 1949 – December 2, 1993) gained world infamy as a Colombian drug dealer. ...


It is generally assumed that Ochoa himself was not linked to drug trafficking, although his sons and grandsons are well-known for their involvement in the trade. Jorge Luis Ochoa Vázquez, was at one time considered the number two leader in the Medellin cartel: In 1996 he was arrested from a five year prison sentence in Colombia. Fabio Ochoa Vázquez "Fabito" (b. 1957) was extradited to the United States in September 2001. Retail selling Street selling is the bottom of the chain and can be accomplished through purchasing from prostitutes, through cloaked retail stores or refuse houses for users in the act located in red-light districts which often also deal in paraphernalia, dealers marketing merriment at night clubs and other events... Jorge Luis Ochoa Vázquez was a drug trafficker from Medellín, Colombia who helped found the notorious Medellín Cartel in the late 1970s. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Fabio Ochoa Vázquez (b. ... 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Extradition is a formal process by which a criminal suspect held by one government is handed over to another government for trial or, if the suspect has already been tried and found guilty, to serve his or her sentence. ... September 2001 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December Events September 4 - Google is awarded U.S. Patent 6,285,999, for the PageRank search algorithm used in the Google search engine September 5 - Perus attorney general files homicide charges against ex-President Alberto...


Ochoa Restrepo suffered from severe [obesity]] and died of kidney failure in 2002. Renal failure is when the kidneys fail to function properly. ...


He was the subject of a brief segment in Full Circle with Michael Palin. Full Circle with Michael Palin is a book and documentary narrated by Michael Palin. ...


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Guardian | Fabio Ochoa Restrepo (524 words)
Fabio Ochoa, meanwhile, was a prosperous businessman, a member of the best clubs in Medellín, and a man who grew up with horses.
T he Medellín cartel leaders were soon rich enough to attract the attentions of guerrilla kidnappers and, in 1981, Ochoa's daughter, Martha Nieves Ochoa, was seized by the M-19 group.
Fabio Ochoa swore his youngest son was innocent of these latest charges.
VOANews.com - Patriarch of Infamous Colombian Drug Trafficking Family Dies (203 words)
Ochoa's sons were major players in the now-defunct Medellin cocaine cartel, whose reputed leader, Pablo Escobar, was killed in a shoot out with Colombian police in 1993.
Ochoa's sons, Fabio Ochoa Vasquez, is in jail in the United States on drug trafficking charges.
Last September, Fabio Ochoa Vasquez was extradited to Miami, Florida to face trial for allegedly smuggling billions of dollars' worth of cocaine into the United States.
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