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Inside Colombia’s ‘Air Chapo’ Cocaine Shipping Scandal

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Allegations that Mexico’s most famous drug lord teamed up with top officials and a U.S. ICE agent have shocked even cynical Colombians.

Jeremy Kryt

CALI, Colombia—In Pablo Escobar’s day, in the 1980s and early 1990s, the erstwhile Cocaine King moved mass quantities of the drug out of Colombia. But his planes

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Jeremy Kryt

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