Juan David Ochoa - Colombian Drug kingpin
This week saw the death one of the founding fathers of the Colombian cocaine trade, as well as well as creating one of the worlds most powerful crime syndicates the Medellin cartel
( google image.... juan david right with his brothers)
PAPI EYE-SAW- Juan David Ochoa was the oldest brother of the Ochoa clan , formed with his two younger brothers Jorge Luis and Fabio. Born into a wealthy family Juan David had the pressure as the oldest to succeed . He saw himself as a business man and with good connections had the advantage of being near and scheming ways to get rich.
While the cocaine trade was in its earliest stages Juan David was already a player and entrepreneur ,inventing ways to smuggle cocaine to the USA via cocaine mules and packages , as well as going to the USA, to places like New York to establish a market
for the cocaine essentially promoting and marketing the drugs. Back in Medellin Ochoa was becoming a well respected business man who was good at paying. He used to pay the the manufacturers of the cocaine money and they would supply him the cocaine and he would do the rest, he knew the real profits were generated overseas. one of these manufacturers who used to supply him were two money and power hungry cousins Gustavo Gaviria and Pablo Escobar .By the late seventies the cocaine market was established and a new style of business within the trade was being set Juan David job was done and he started taken a back seat as the two younger brothers were showing there fire and strengths in the trade.
The Ochoa clan co founded the Medellin Cartel with its figure head Pablo Escobar as well as being his main associate and backer in the 1980s during the Cartels war on the state. During the persecution of the Medellin cartel Juan David handed himself and was given a 5 year sentence as well as avoiding extradition. By the time he was released Pablo was dead and and the cocaine trade was for a new generation , he supposedly went into retirement but his youngest brother was extradited for drug dealing and is serving a 30 year sentence while the cocaine industry was being led by leaders who were low ranking lutenants , sicarios or soldiers in thier time. Juan David release was controversial and seen as a disgrace by sections of society. These sections see him as still be responsible for thousands of murders and still as having a major stake in Medellin cocaine trade. Juan David age 65 died a free man, the Ochoa clan started the cocaine trade, they bought terror to Colombia ,creating Narco terrorism, they helped create the first paramilitry groups to combat against leftist guerrillas , the Ochoa clan have made billions through the trade while parading as cattle ranchers and horse breeders. So powerful and respected they are a major part of Colombias violent and criminal history. they will always be remembered for the Medellin cartel and relations with Pablo Escobar and in some sections of the cocaine trade and officials say the Ochoa clan are responsible for the most cocaine exported out of Colombia and that Pablo Escobar reported to them. One thing is for sure he has taken a lot of secrets to the grave
( google image - juan david and a few frien
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