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Colombian authorities have captured the leader of a criminal group that once worked for Pablo Escobar, a police spokesman said Wednesday.

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'Pablo Escobar of the Caribbean' caughtupdated: Sun Jul 18 2010 10:18:00

Police say alleged Carribbean drug kingpin Jose David Figueroa-Agosto was arrested with close to $4 million cash.

Experts: Accused Jamaican drug lord akin to Robin Hood, Pablo Escobarupdated: Tue Jun 22 2010 19:30:00

Christopher "Dudus" Coke, who controls the impoverished West Kingston enclaves now blockaded by gang members, is likened by experts to both Robin Hood and Pablo Escobar.

Street warfare in Jamaicaupdated: Tue Jun 22 2010 19:30:00

CNN's Rafael Romo reports on what's behind the bloody street clashes in Kingston, Jamaica.

SI.com: Steve Davis: Five things we learned from MLS Week 5updated: Mon Apr 26 2010 16:36:00

Know your Major League Soccer -- Five things to take away from Week 5:

Drug lord's son seeks forgivenessupdated: Fri Dec 11 2009 19:54:00

"How do you write to a family that your own father hurt so much?"

Sins of my fatherupdated: Fri Dec 11 2009 19:54:00

Sebastian Marroquin speaks about the atrocities of his father and Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar.

Medellin gripped by drug warupdated: Fri Oct 16 2009 15:46:00

Pablo Escobar's hometown is gripped by a cocaine-fueled gang war. CNN's Karl Penhaul reports from the front line.

Taliban 'narco-terrorist' begs for mercy, gets life sentenceupdated: Mon Dec 22 2008 20:14:00

A distraught, sobbing Afghan Taliban member begged the court for mercy, but got none as an unmoved federal judge here Monday handed down maximum life sentences for convictions on drug trafficking and narco-terrorism charges.

Director Oliver Stone joins hostage rescue teamupdated: Sun Dec 30 2007 19:29:00

With its fearsome record of kidnapping and violence, Colombia's largest guerrilla army might seem a nightmare group to encounter. But not to Oliver Stone.

Time.com: The Way Station for Europe's Cocaine updated: Wed Jun 13 2007 03:55:00

As America's appetite for coke fades, Guinea Bissau has become a key transit point for Colombia's narco-traffickers with an eye on the growing European market

Fortune: NOW HEAR THIS updated: Mon Oct 05 1992 00:01:00

-- WARREN BUFFETT, 62, on the future business mix of Salomon Inc., which he ran as chairman for ten months after scandal hit the Wall Street firm, in which he has a big investment: ''It won't be th...

Money Magazine: Life styles of the Rich and Heinous Ever wonder what the billions Americans spend on drugs actually buy, beyond updated: Wed Nov 01 1989 00:01:00

Innocent bystanders shot down on city streets. Overdosed teenagers dying in emergency rooms. Newborn babies writhing in pain from cocaine withdrawal. The ugliest images of our country's drug epidem...

Fortune: THE DRUG TRADE Think of it as a huge, multinational commodity business with a fast-moving top management, a widespread distributupdated: Mon Jun 20 1988 00:01:00

THE ILLICIT DRUG TRADE is probably the fastest-growing industry in the world and is unquestionably the most profitable. A handful of Latin American countries grow coca leaves that yield cocaine, wh...

Fortune: THE WEALTH THAT LEAVES NO TRACKSupdated: Mon Oct 12 1987 00:01:00

Some famous --and infamous names, such as members of the Mafia, are not on FORTUNE's list of billionaires, even though they have supposedly amassed huge piles of money. Their riches are hard to pro...

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