Jorge Ochoa
Jorge Ochoa was a leader of the Medellín Cartel who controlled the Miami cocaine market and was approached by a DEA agent to implicate the Sandinistas in drug trafficking.
Jorge Ochoa was a leader of the Medellín Cartel who, along with Pablo Escobar and Carlos Lehder, controlled the Miami Cocaine market during the early 1980s. The Ochoa family in Colombia was one of the primary sources of cocaine for the Blandón-Meneses trafficking ring that funded the Contra war.1
DEA Manipulation Attempt
DEA agent James Kible visited Ochoa in a Spanish jail in 1984 and attempted to persuade him to publicly implicate the Sandinistas in drug trafficking. The approach was part of a broader pattern of the U.S. government using the drug war for political purposes, attempting to manufacture propaganda against the Nicaraguan government while protecting Contra-connected traffickers. Escobar claimed to have a photograph of George H.W. Bush posing with Ochoa in front of suitcases full of money.2
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