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Carlos Lehder is of mixed German-Colombian descent. His father, Klaus Wilhelm Lehder, was an engineer who emigrated from Germany to Armenia, Colombia in 1928, where he participated in the construction of several buildings which had elevators, a rather modern and unusual characteristic at that place and time.
The inn was partially abandoned when Lehder went into hiding. In 1985, a fire destroyed the restaurant and part of the bar. [7] Following Lehder's capture and extradition in 1987, the inn was the target of looting. After having been abandoned for several years the inn was expropriated by the Colombian government in 1998. [1]
Lehder, before with his partner George Jung and later through Norman's Cay, is often credited with revolutionizing drug smuggling. The typical method of transporting small shipments, often carried by human drug mules , either through ingestion or in their luggage, onto commercial airlines, was surpassed by the use of small aircraft shipping ...
EXCLUSIVE: Rakontur has wrapped production on The Last of the Cocaine Cowboys, a four-part documentary miniseries on Medellín Cartel co-founder Carlos Lehder. Described by the U.S. Department of ...
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Paraíso blanco is a Colombian streaming television series produced by Caracol Televisión for TelevisaUnivision. [1] The series is based on the life of former German-Colombian drug lord Carlos Lehder, inspired by the book Crazy Charlie written by Ron Chepesiuk. [2]
Links were alleged between Nazi Germany and Laureano Gómez's newspaper El Siglo during the 1930s and 1940s, although Colombia has generally had little fascist activity in its history outside of the German community. [20] In the 1980s, the drug dealer Carlos Lehder founded his own neo-Nazi party, the National Latin Movement.
Escobar and Carlos Lehder worked together to develop a new island trans-shipment point in the Bahamas, called Norman's Cay. Lehder and Robert Vesco purchased most of the land on the island which included a 3,300 feet (1,000 m) airstrip, a harbor, hotel, houses, boats, aircraft; he even built a refrigerated warehouse to store the cocaine. From ...