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Fabio Ochoa, el ex capo del Cartel de Medellín, fue deportado a Colombia tras purgar una pena de 25 años en Estados Unidos por narcotráfico

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Fabio Ochoa Vásquez, quien fuera uno de los capos del temido Cartel de Medellín y socio de Pablo Escobar, fue deportado este lunes por Estados Unidos tras cumplir una condena de más de dos décadas por narcotráfico, informó Migración Colombia.

El ex capo, de 67 años, pisó su tierra natal por primera vez tras ser extraditado en 2001 a Estados Unidos, donde fue condenado a 30 años de cárcel por conspiración para poseer e importar cinco o más kilos de cocaína a ese país.

Fabio es el menor del clan de los hermanos Ochoa Vásquez, junto a Jorge Luis y Juan David, quienes incursionaron en el narcotráfico en la década de 1970 y se convirtieron en socios del Cartel de Medellín que terminó liderando Escobar, dado de baja por la policía en 1993.

También fue parte del grupo MAS (Muerte a Secuestradores) que se creó en Colombia en la década de 1980 tras el secuestro de su hermana Martha Nieves Ochoa por parte de la extinta guerrilla M-19. Los Ochoa no pagaron el rescate y la guerrilla la liberó tras el asedio del MAS.

El MAS es el “hito fundacional del paramilitarismo en Colombia”, según la Comisión de la Verdad, órgano extrajudicial que se dedicó a esclarecer hechos del conflicto colombiano. Era una “alianza entre la mafia, la fuerza pública y sectores económicos y políticos que se sentían afectados por la guerrilla”.

Ochoa Vásquez se entregó a la justicia colombiana en 1990 bajo un programa gubernamental, cuando formaba parte de la lista de los más buscados por Estados Unidos, que prometía que los capos de la droga no serían extraditados y purgó más de cinco años de cárcel.

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Fue capturado en Colombia con fines de extradición en 1999 y acusado de cargos de narcotráfico por Estados Unidos luego de una investigación conjunta entre la agencia antidrogas estadounidense DEA y la policía colombiana conocida como “Operación Milenio”.

Foto del archivo 8 de septiembre 2001. Fabio Ochoa a su llegada en el aeropuerto internacional de Miami. Foto AFP

El menor de la familia Ochoa negó cualquier participación en delitos de narcotráfico para ese entonces y su familia hizo circular vallas publicitarias y pancartas con el mensaje: “Ayer me equivoqué, hoy soy inocente”.

Ochoa Vásquez fue acusado por Estados Unidos junto con más de 30 personas, pero fue el único que fue a juicio luego de rechazar una negociación en la que se le ofrecía una sentencia reducida a cambio de declararse culpable.

El ex capo recibió una condena de 30 años de prisión, mientras que los otros acusados ​​recibieron penas de prisión mucho más leves porque la mayoría de ellos cooperaron con el gobierno.

Tras 25 años de prisión cumplió su condena el 3 de diciembre de este año, por lo que quedó en custodia del Servicio de Control de Inmigración y Aduanas (ICE, por sus siglas en inglés) en Michigan.

Su deportación se dilató unos días en espera de que se resolviera un requerimiento judicial para que compareciera en Jacksonville, Florida, el 28 de enero, debido a una acusación formal pendiente por un caso de narcotráfico.

Finalmente, el fiscal retiró la solicitud de comparecencia y pidió a una corte federal en Florida que se reanudara su proceso de deportación, en cumplimiento del tratado de extradición vigente con Colombia.

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Netanyahu warns Houthis amid calls for Israel to wipe out terror leadership as it did with Nasrallah, Sinwar

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TEL AVIV – Amid negotiations to forge a hostages-for-cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, and as the truce with Hezbollah in Lebanon mostly holds, Jerusalem has an opportunity to direct additional military resources to cut Yemen’s Houthi leadership down to size, according to former Israeli officials.

«Israel has to accelerate and expand attacks [in Yemen], not only on national infrastructure but also on the political leadership,» retired Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin, former head of Israeli Military Intelligence and president of MIND Israel, told Fox News Digital. 

«Targeted killings are an option if there is good intelligence to enable such operations. The leaders of the Houthis should meet Sinwar and Nasrallah and the sooner the better,» he added.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu split screen with Abdul Malik Badruddin Al-Houthi, leader of the Houthis. (Getty Images)

An Israel Defense Forces strike killed Hezbollah terror master Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut, Lebanon, on Sept. 28, while Israeli ground troops eliminated Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar in the southern Gaza city of Rafah on Oct. 17, and Hamas’ Ismail Haniyeh in Iran last summer.

Houthi terror leaders:

The Houthis are led by Abdul Malik Badruddin Al-Houthi (Abu Jibril), whom the U.S. State Department designated as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist in 2021.

According to the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), other top officials include Abdul Khaliq Badruddin Al-Houthi (Abu Yunis), commander of the Republican Guard (Presidential Reserve), whom the U.S. also blacklisted in 2021; Muhammad Ali Al-Houthi (Abu Ahmad), a member of the Supreme Political Council; and Abdul Karim Amiruddin Husayn Al-Houthi, interior minister and director of the executive office of Ansar Allah.

An undated picture of Houthi terror leader Abdul Malik Badruddin Al-Houthi. FDD's Long War Journal notes he was designated by the State Department as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist in 2021.

An undated picture of Houthi terror leader Abdul Malik Badruddin Al-Houthi. FDD’s Long War Journal notes he was designated by the State Department as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist in 2021. (FDD’s Long War Journal)

Joe Truzman, a research analyst at FDD’s Long War Journal, told Fox News Digital that intel-based assassination operations take time and that, to date, the Israelis have been preoccupied with Gaza and Lebanon.

«But it can be done. We’ve seen Israel target nuclear scientists and military personnel in Iran. This can be replicated in Yemen. If the Houthis continue these attacks, more of Israel’s focus turns to them,» Truzman said.

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Maj. Gen. (res.) Yaakov Amidror, a former national security adviser in Israel and a senior fellow at the Washington-based JINSA think tank, outlined to Fox News Digital the intricacy of such attempts.

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A handout picture obtained from Yemen’s Huthi Ansarullah Media Center shows a huge column of fire erupting following IDF strikes in the Yemeni rebel-held port city of Hodeida on July 20, 2024. (Ansarullah Media Center/AFP via Getty Images)

«You have to be sure that a target is in the place that you bomb. If he has three houses, how do you know which one he’s in? You need real-time intel,» said Amidror, who noted that it was relatively easy for Israel to hit Nasrallah from the moment his exact location was known.

«It took 15-20 minutes to strike [the Hezbollah headquarters] in Beirut because it is so close to Israel,» he said. «Yemen is a huge logistical operation, it requires refueling jets, let alone the tactical issues on the ground. A totally different sort of intelligence is needed.

«Both Nasrallah and Sinwar were known enemies and we amassed information on them over many years, but the Houthis were not a priority,» continued Amidror. «The way forward is to begin intensifying the collection of intelligence by building bridges with those who can provide it.» 

Overnight Wednesday, the IAF struck targets some 1,200 miles away in Yemen, after a Houthi missile hit an elementary school in Ramat Gan, just east of Tel Aviv.

Hassan Nasrallah

IDF profile picture showing Hezbollah terror chief Hassan Nasrallah, who the IDF confirmed was killed in a strike in September. (IDF Spokesman’s Unit)

The pre-dawn strikes were conducted in two waves, targeting the Ras Isa oil terminal on the Red Sea, the Hodeidah and Salif ports, as well as the D’Habban and Haziz power stations in Sana’a, according to reports.

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In July, a Houthi drone killed a civilian in Tel Aviv, prompting the IAF to strike Yemen’s Hodeidah Port. Israeli jets also conducted dozens of strikes in the area of Hodeidah in September.

Overall, the Houthis have launched over 200 missiles and 170 drones at Israel since Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, massacre of 1,200 people. Since then, the Houthis have also attacked more than six dozen commercial vessels – particularly in the Bab-el-Mandeb, the southern maritime gateway to Egypt’s Suez Canal.

«The distance to Yemen is about the longest range the IAF has ever flown, but they could expand that with more refueling,» Brig. Gen. (res.) Relik Shafir, a former IAF pilot who took part in Operation Opera, the attack on Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactor on June 7, 1981, told Fox News Digital. 

«It’s uncomfortable for a pilot to sit in an F-15, F-16 or F-35 for seven hours. You need to be fully aware and at your top level of concentration,» he continued. «Israel can strike far enough for any existing enemy and the air force uses guided missiles that fire at a precision of two or three feet.»

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Deceased Hamas terror chief Yahya Sinwar on a poster in Tehran, Iran, Aug. 13, 2024. (Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu via Getty Images)

On Monday, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz issued a warning to the Houthis, «We will strike their strategic infrastructure and decapitate their leaders. Just as we did to [former Hamas chief Ismail] Haniyeh, Sinwar and Nasrallah, in Tehran, Gaza and Lebanon – we will do in Hodeidah and Sanaa.» 

Jerusalem had previously refrained from taking responsibility for the July 31 killing of Haniyeh, who traveled to the Iranian capital for the inauguration of the country’s president.

On Friday, U.S. Defense Department spokesman Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder stated that the Israelis «certainly have a right to defend themselves.» 

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Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas and his bodyguard were killed in an assassination blamed on Israel on Aug. 1, 2024 in Tehran.

Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas and his bodyguard were killed in an assassination blamed on Israel on Aug. 1, 2024 in Tehran. (Cem Tekkesinoglu/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

The Houthis «are a danger to everybody in the Middle East,» former Mossad head Efraim Halevy told Fox News Digital. «In the end, most countries in the region will be interested and willing to cooperate in efforts to bring about the end of these attacks, which have no justification whatsoever.»

ISRAELI AIRSTRIKES TARGET YEMEN’S HOUTHI-CONTROLLED CAPITAL OF SANAA, PORT CITY OF HODEIDA

Israeli Air Force jets depart for strikes in Yemen.

Israeli Air Force jets depart for strikes in Yemen. (IDF)

Halevy insisted that «terrorist activity of every kind is a challenge that has to be met with an appropriate response. The Houthis have incurred losses and if they continue to provoke us, we will have to do more.»

In March 2015, a Saudi-led coalition launched a military intervention against the Houthis at the request of then-Yemeni President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi, who had been ousted from Sana’a the previous September. Yemen’s civil war remains stalemated, with the internationally recognized government, led by the Presidential Leadership Council since 2022, based in Aden, in the country’s south, since February 2015.

A source close to that government told Israel’s Kan public broadcaster on Saturday that Jerusalem should initiate assassinations of Houthi leaders, while the Saudi outlet Al-Arabiya reported that senior Houthi officials had fled Sana’a out of concern they would be targeted.

«We need to understand more deeply what it is that would cripple the Houthis’ ability to operate,» former Israeli national security adviser Eyal Hulata told Fox News Digital. «For this, we need more intelligence, more assessments and coordination between the different parties.»

Houthi militants in vehicles

Houthi fighters man heavy machine guns mounted on vehicles at a rally in support of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. (Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images)

The big question, Hulata posited, is whether the Houthis will continue to pose a threat if Israel and Hamas agree to a cease-fire.

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«If they become a major enemy, Israel will need to address this by directing resources it was hoping to avoid – and maybe is still hoping to,» he said.

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On Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged Israelis to be «patient» while intimating Jerusalem was preparing to up the intensity of its campaign against the Houthis.

«We will take forceful, determined and sophisticated action. Even if it takes time, the result will be the same,» he vowed. «Just as we have acted forcefully against the terror arms of Iran’s axis of evil, so too will we act against the Houthis.»


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