The Kingpin

Hemingway's Picasso by Sony Music

Dec 27, 202118:16Society & Culture

Carlos Lehder isn’t a celebrity like Escobar, but the truth is that, without Lehder, Escobar would never have become a wildly famous drug kingpin. Lehder, the German-Colombian, drug-trafficking genius was responsible for...

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