The Express Tribune

Olympic snowboarder-turned-cartel boss charged in witness murder, say US officials

US authorities allege Ryan Wedding ordered a federal witness killing while leading a billion-dollar drug network ...
New York Post

A covert FBI agent smuggled $1B in cocaine to crush Colombian cartels — and lived to tell the tale

Martin Suarez returned from a morning run in his Puerto Rican gated community in August 1994 to an assassin emerging from the shadows, a Smith & Wesson revolver heavy in his hand. Suarez, an FBI ...
Rolling Stone

He Infiltrated a Colombian Cartel. Then He Smuggled $500 Million Worth of Cocaine in One Night

Martin Suarez is the only deep-undercover FBI agent in history to have infiltrated a Colombian drug cartel. In 1988, he transformed into “Manny” and became a high-level smuggler for Pablo Escobar’s ...
AOL

Part of drug lord's ranch, famous for "cocaine hippos," given to conflict victims

Colombia has handed over a chunk of deceased drug lord Pablo Escobar's ranch, famous for its "cocaine hippos," to women caught up in the country's armed conflict, President Gustavo Petro said ...
Miami New Times

The Mermelstein Files: The Cocaine King’s Letter to Nancy Reagan

This week, New Times published “I, Max,” a feature story revealing what became of former Medellin Cartel master-smuggler Max Mermelstein after he decided to cooperate with feds and entered the ...