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Pablo Gaviria, who would become one of the richest men in the world, was born into modest circumstances in the village of Rionegro, seventeen miles from Medellin, Colombia. His reign started in the 1970s when he and two other men, Jorge Luis Ochoa Vasquez and Carlos Lehder Rivas, started a new generation of Colombian narcotics trafficking. They came to power in Medellin where they monopolized the production of cocaine and were the first to mass market it in North America. The trio controlled every phase of the operation from manufacturing, to distribution, to political payoffs.

Gaviria was arrested in 1976 for possession of thirty-nine pounds of cocaine, but the arresting officer was soon killed, and nine judges refused to hear the case after receiving death threats. The official records disappeared from the courthouse and Gaviria was never tried. Fabio Ochoa Restrepo had formed a cartel to squeeze out independents and contain losses from drug seizures by the Col...

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