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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. At the height of his criminal career, Rodríguez was acknowledged as one of the world's most successful drug dealers. In 1988, Forbes magazine included him in their annual list of the world's billionaires. Early years José Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha was born in May 1947 in the small town of Veraguas, near Pacho in the department of Cundinamarca. He came from a poor family of modest pig farmers, and it is said that his formal education did not extend beyond grade school. He left school in the early 1970s and moved to Muzo, Boyacá, the center of the emerald exploitation in Colombia. There he began to work under Gilberto Molina Moreno, who at the time was called the "tsar" of emeralds in Boyacá, as part of his security, developing a fearsome reputation as a killer. As he started to go up in the ranks among Molina's men, he also became acquainted with drug traffickers. At some point, Rodríguez Gacha decided that the drug business was more profitable and became independent. He moved to Bogotá and became associated up with Verónica Rivera de Vargas, a pioneering drug trafficker who was known as the "queen of cocaine," by murdering the family of her main rival. Rivera introduced him to Pablo Escobar and to Mexican drug lord, Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo. Rise of the Medellín Cartel As he started to prosper in the drug trafficking business, Rodríguez Gacha started to buy larger amounts of land in the Middle Magdalena region in the valley bordering the departments of Antioquia, Boyacá, and Santander. After moving to Medellín in 1976, Rodríguez Gacha associated with the Ochoa family, Pablo Escobar, and Carlos Lehder in establishing an alliance that eventually strengthened into what would become known as the Medellín Cartel. The traffickers cooperated in the manufacturing, distribution and marketing of cocaine. During the late 1970s, Rodríguez advanced in the organizational hierarchy, pioneering new trafficking routes through Mexico and into the United States, primarily Los Angeles, California and Houston, Texas. He is often said to have been the first to establish cooperation strategies with drug trafficking cartels in Mexico. This, coupled with his infatuation with Mexican popular culture, music, and horse culture, and his fondness for foul language, earned him the nicknames El Mexicano (the Mexican) and 'Don Sombrero'. He owned a string of farms in his hometown in the locality of Pacho with Mexican inspired names such as Cuernavaca, Chihuahua, Sonora and Mazatlán.According to the US Justice Department, Rodríguez directed cocaine trafficking operations through Panama and the West Coast (California) of the United States. It is claimed that he helped design a Nicaraguan trafficking operation that employed pilot Barry Seal (who was murdered on February 19, 1986, after agreeing to testify against the Medellín Cartel).Rodríguez Gacha based much of his operations from Bogotá and other areas in the Cundinamarca region, as well as in the Middle Magdalena region. It was Rodríguez who first set up Tranquilandia, one of the largest and best known of the jungle laboratories where more than two thousand people lived and worked making and packaging cocaine. ["The Accountant's Story", by Roberto Escobar]. As he became one of the main capos of the rising Cartel, Rodríguez Gacha started having problems with the FARC guerrilla, mostly derived from the fact that the insurgent army taxed some of his coca plantations, and that they sometimes robbed some of his men. When the M-19 guerrilla kidnapped Martha Nieves Ochoa, the sister of fellow drug lord Jorge Luis Ochoa, the cartel decided to create what would be one of the first far-right paramilitary groups to fight the guerrillas, the "Muerte a Secuestradores" (MAS) [Death to Kidnappers] movement. Rodríguez Gacha became one of the main economic supporters of the group. He soon became the de facto military leader of the cartel and thanks to his immense riches, he managed to form the largest paramilitary organization in the country, composed of around 1,000 men, all trained and armed, originally devoted to his security but soon becoming an anti-communist army directed particularly against the FARC, and then against the Unión Patriótica political party. Lara assassination On March 7, 1984, the Colombian Police and the DEA destroyed Rodríguez Gacha's Tranquilandia complex. A few weeks later, on April 30, 1984, Colombian Minister of Justice Rodrigo Lara, who had crusaded against the Medellin Cartel, was assassinated by armed men on a motorcycle. In response, President Belisario Betancur, who had previously opposed extradition, made an announcement that "we will extradite Colombians." Carlos Lehder was the first to be put on the list. The crackdown forced the Ochoas, Escobar and Rodríguez to flee to Panama for several months. A few months later, Escobar was indicted for Lara's murder and Rodríguez was named as a material witness. In an attempt to handle the situation, Escobar, Rodríguez and the Ochoa brothers met with the former Colombian president Alfonso López in the Hotel Marriott in Panama City. The negotiation failed after news of it leaked to the press, provoking the open opposition of the United States to any immunity deal. Cartel-linked paramilitary groups Paramilitary groups (or self-defense groups, autodefensas as they are frequently referred to in Colombia), were created with the support of landowners and cattle ranchers who had been under pressure from the guerrillas as well as from groups affiliated with narcotics traffickers such as the Muerte a Secuestradores movement (MAS – Death to Kidnappers). As made clear in a 2004 judgment of the Inter-American court of Human Rights, numerous independent reports and from what the paramilitaries themselves have said, in at least some cases they were given support by the state itself. The top leaders of the Medellín Cartel created private armies to guarantee their own security and protect the property they had acquired. According to The Washington Post, in the mid-1980s, Rodríguez and Pablo Escobar bought huge tracts of land in the Magdalena Department (as well as Puerto Boyacá, Rionegro and the Llanos) which they used to transform their self-defense groups from poorly trained peasant militias into sophisticated fighting forces. By the late 1980s Medellin traffickers controlled 40% of the land in the Middle Magdalena, according to a Colombian military estimate, and also funded most of the paramilitary operations in the region. Throughout the 1980s, Rodríguez helped catalyze the Medellín Cartel's explosive rise to power by financing the importation and implementation of expensive foreign technology and expertise. Accor.... Discover the Jose A Rodriguez popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Jose A Rodriguez books.

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    The Guardians of Rhea

    José Rodríguez

    ~Book 1~ Sara is a Guardian, an elite human warrior trained to battle the races of Rhea, but she soon finds herself on a quest to save them when their afterlife is invaded by a pow...

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    Mud Man

    Jose R. Rodriguez

    Short story. A young wannabe mason in Florida tries to find his place in the world but things not always work out as one wishes for. When things don't go one's way, just enjoy the ...

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    Vesuvian Starlight

    José Rodríguez

    ~Book 3~ Rhea is devastated. The Pelasgian invasion leaves nowhere to run or hide. As the enemy gathers in an everincreasing number, the people of Rhea must regroup to make their f...

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    Wrongway Dave

    Jose R. Rodriguez

    Dave is paralyzed by terror every time he jumps out of an airplane. Despite a string of bad jumps that make Frank, his instructor, ground him out of concern for his life, Dave find...

  • Jose Amado Perez v. Sergio Max Rodriguez synopsis, comments

    Jose Amado Perez v. Sergio Max Rodriguez

    Third District Court of Appeal of Florida

    The plaintiff (Jose Perez) appeals from a final judgment entered in favor of the defendant (Sergio Rodriguez) upon granting the defendant's motion for summary judgment as to counts...

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    Closed

    Joé Luis Santalla

    Las fotografías reunidas en este libro fueron realizadas en el estudio del artista entre 2005 y 2006, forman en total una colección de 45 retratos y 2 piezas de vídeo que se han ex...

  • Jose Rodriguez v. Loxahatchee Groves Water Control Management District synopsis, comments

    Jose Rodriguez v. Loxahatchee Groves Water Control Management District

    Court of Appeal of Florida

    This disciplinary proceeding is before us upon review of a referees findings and recommendations. We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 15, Fla. Const. We approve the referees findings ...

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    Cookie

    José Rodríguez

    The crew of the Sentris investigates the universe’s biggest mystery. While doing so they must also contend with the most fragile of all things; the human mind.

  • Company Man synopsis, comments

    Company Man

    John Rizzo

    The “revealing” (The New Yorker) insider history of the CIA from a lawyer with a “frontrow seat on the hidden world of intelligence” (The Washington Post). Former CIA director Geor...

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    The Earth is Flat

    José Rodríguez

    NOTE: The title is only a name. It is not a statement/declaration, nor is this a manifesto.Jose is a flatEarther who wins a chance to go up in a hotel in space. But before he goes,...

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    Llovizna de primavera

    Jose Manuel Rodriguez Caballero

    Cuento de amor para todas las edades. Se trata de una niña llamada Emily que juega con sus muñecos en el jardín de su casa, y se pregunta inocentemente qué será el amor. Entonces a...

  • Jose Ripoll v. Pedro L. Rodriguez synopsis, comments

    Jose Ripoll v. Pedro L. Rodriguez

    Supreme Court of New York

    Appeal by defendant from an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County, dated December 26, 1975, which denied his motion inter alia to set aside and vacate a certain judgment taken ...

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    Superhumans

    José Rodríguez

    Michael and Chip are two college friends who end up discovering an experiment that bestows a regular person with superpowers. When they discover its creator's plans, they must find...

  • Rhean Chronicles synopsis, comments

    Rhean Chronicles

    José Rodríguez

    This isn’t a story so much as it is a compendium, of sorts. I use to have a website for this info, but the cost/view ratio meant I couldn’t keep the website. Too expensive for me n...

  • Ex Partes Valeriano Rodriguez v. Jose Perez synopsis, comments

    Ex Partes Valeriano Rodriguez v. Jose Perez

    536 - 63,538 Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas Nos. 63

    TOM G. DAVIS, Judge Appeals are taken from orders entered after a hearing in a habeas corpus proceeding seeking reduction of bail.1 Appellants Perez and Rodriguez are being held in...

  • Ex Partes Valeriano Rodriguez v. Jose Perez synopsis, comments

    Ex Partes Valeriano Rodriguez v. Jose Perez

    Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

    Appellants Perez and Rodriguez are being held in confinement under indictments for delivery of a controlled substance, namely, cocaine. Bail for each appellant has been set at $100...

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    Don Juan Tenorio

    José Zorrilla

    José Zorrilla es uno de los poetas y dramaturgos más importantes del Romanticismo. Logró conmover al pueblo con sus versos, sonoros, ágiles y amenos. Para deleitarte con la lectura...

  • Jose Rodriguez v. Commonwealth synopsis, comments

    Jose Rodriguez v. Commonwealth

    Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts

    Supreme Judicial Court, superintendence of inferior courts. Practice, Criminal, Appeal. Jose Rodriguez, whom we shall call the defendant, was convicted of rape and assault and batt...

  • Inez Menendez and Jose Menendez v. Rosa Rodriguez synopsis, comments

    Inez Menendez and Jose Menendez v. Rosa Rodriguez

    En Banc. Supreme Court of Florida

    BUFORD, C. J. This appeal is from a decree of partition. The salient facts appear to be that Manuel Rodriguez on the 26th day of September, 1917, acquired a certain lot of land; o...

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    Quiet Leadership

    Carlo Ancelotti

    Carlo Ancelotti is one of the greatest managers of all time, with five Champions League titles to his name. Yet his approach could not be further from the aggressive theatricals fa...

  • People State New York v. Jose Rodriguez synopsis, comments

    People State New York v. Jose Rodriguez

    Court of Appeals of New York

    The question before us is whether, in the circumstances of this case, the courts below could properly conclude that a police informant was sufficiently reliable and was possessed o...

  • People State New York v. Jose Rodriguez synopsis, comments

    People State New York v. Jose Rodriguez

    Supreme Court of New York

    Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Lentol, J.), rendered April 30, 1976, convicting him of attempted robbery in the second degree, upon a j...

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    El cuervo

    José Miguel Rodríguez Montoya

    El cuervo, majestuosa ave de mal agüero, porta a sus espaldas una historia de desdichas y desventura que unos tantos desconocen. A lo largo y ancho de las páginas de este libro int...

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    Common Sense

    José Rodríguez

    It is an indisputable fact that times are changing and technology is becoming ever more advanced. I present what I believe to be possible solutions to some of the big issues. In to...

  • Jose Patricio Rodriguez v. State Florida synopsis, comments

    Jose Patricio Rodriguez v. State Florida

    Third District Court of Appeal of Florida

    The defendant Jose Patricio Rodriguez appeals his conviction for conspiracy to commit firstdegree murder, and sevenyear prison sentence imposed thereon, based on an adverse jury ve...

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    Mister Danger is my Name

    Jose R. Rodriguez

    An American expatriate living in a small town along the Caribbean, an escapee from alimony payments and pesky IRS tax men, becomes the unexpected driver of an ambulance carrying a ...

  • LaVidaQueNosMotiva-DigitalEdition synopsis, comments

    LaVidaQueNosMotiva-DigitalEdition

    Dr. Jose Rodriguez Car

    "La Vida Que Nos Motiva" te sumerge en una fuente inspiradora, impulsando cada aspecto de tu vida al estilo de Jesús. Siguiendo su perfección, descubrirás cómo lograr resultados ex...

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    Sprache von Politikern

    Philipp Jakobs

    In der Hausarbeit wird die Sprache von Politikern in deren Reden behandelt. Zunächst werde ich allgemeine Ideen zum Thema äußern, und im späterem Verlauf als Beispiele zwei Reden...

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    Silent Suffering

    José Rodríguez

    Based on the true story of Jose Rodriguez Jr. A young man whose life would be changed forever when he was diagnosed with LockedIn Syndrome. Become intimate with him as he shares de...

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    Shadow Seed

    José Rodríguez

    ~Book 2~ The Rheans return to their homes only to find out that the Pelasgians now threaten to strike at every city in Rhea. Unable to unite their forces, the Rheans are forced int...