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Jorge Luis Ochoa Vásquez (born 30 September 1950) is a Colombian former drug trafficker who was one of the founding members of the Medellín Cartel in the late 1970s. The cartel's key members were Pablo Escobar , Carlos Lehder , José Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha , Gustavo Gaviria , Jorge Ochoa, and his brothers Juan David and Fabio .
The then "cartel-style" model for Pablo and Gustavo's criminal organization began to reach fruition between 1976 and 1979, when it also incorporated the contraband smuggling networks of the Ochoas (Jorge Luis Ochoa Vásquez, Fabio Ochoa Vásquez and Juan David Ochoa Vásquez), as well as the trafficking enterprise and muscle (armed men) working ...
Jorge, Juan and Fabio all turned themselves into the authorities in 1996, when Colombian president César Gaviria Trujillo introduced a more lenient prison sentence for drug traffickers who were ...
José Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha (14 May 1947 – 15 December 1989), also known by the nicknames Don Sombrero (English: Mister Hat) and El Mexicano (English: The Mexican), was a Colombian drug lord who was one of the leaders of the Medellín Cartel along with the Ochoa brothers and Pablo Escobar.
Juan David Ochoa Vásquez (13 April 1946 – 25 July 2013) was a Colombian drug trafficker and one of the founders of the Medellín Cartel, a major drug trafficking cartel based in the city of Medellín. [1] Juan David was the elder brother of Jorge Luis and Fabio Ochoa Vásquez, powerful figures inside the Medellín Cartel. [2] [3]
The youngest of the three Ochoa brothers, Ochoa Vásquez lived in Miami, Florida during the 1970s and early 1980s, and was alleged to have handled thousands of pounds of cocaine. [1] He was indicted by the US government for the first time in 1984, and was allegedly involved in the February 19, 1986 murder of Barry Seal , an informant for the U ...
Ochoa died in 2002 in Colombia. He was the subject of a brief segment in Full Circle with Michael Palin.He was portrayed in the 2006 documentary film Cocaine cowboys, where the former Medellín Cartel associate Jon Roberts said of him: "As many people want to believe that Pablo Escobar was the king of cocaine, they can believe that, but the man that was really the king was Ochoa & not Fabito ...
Ana María Ochoa Gautier (born 9 October 1962) is a Colombian ethnomusicologist.A 2007 Guggenheim Fellow, she researches Latin American music – her works including Música Popular na America Latina: Pontos de Escuta (2007) and Aurality: Listening and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Colombia (2014) – and has worked as professor at Columbia University and Tulane University.