Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela, one of many drug traffickers who based the fearsome Cali Cartel, died – Muricas News

Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela, the capo of the Cali Cartel, died in the previous couple of hours on the age of 83 in a jail in the US the place he was serving a sentence for varied crimes associated to drug trafficking.

Together with his brother Miguel Rodríguez Orejuela and José Santacruz Londoño they began the fearsome cartel within the 70s.

The previous drug lord had been serving a sentence since 2006 30 years in jail in the US.

“We had been very saddened to study of his dying final night time. Our ideas and prayers are together with his household presently,” David Markus, Rodríguez Orejuela’s lawyer, informed EFE.

In April 2020, Markus had denounced that Rodríguez Orejuela was an aged individual “with a number of continual ailments” who was prone to dying on the very starting of the pandemic.

Rodríguez Orejuela was housed in a low-security jail in Butner, North Carolina. There he was after having suffered a coronary heart assault and most cancers. In accordance with the Colombian media El Tiempo, the kin of Rodríguez Orejuela had been demanding that the US permit the visits that the Donald Trump authorities had canceled.

For his half, Miguel Rodríguez Orejuela is being held in a medium-security jail in Pennsylvania.

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