Fabio Ochoa Restrepo
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Fabio Ochoa Restrepo ("Don Fabio" 1923 – 2002) was a Paso Fino enthusiast, rancher, businessman, and patriarch of a notorious Colombian crime family associated with the Medellín drug cartel of Pablo Escobar.
It is generally assumed that Ochoa himself was not linked to drug trafficking, although his sons and grandsons are well-known for their involvement in the trade. Jorge Luis Ochoa Vázquez, was at one time considered the number two leader in the Medellin cartel: In 1996 he was arrested from a five year prison sentence in Colombia. Fabio Ochoa Vázquez "Fabito" (b. 1957) was extradited to the United States in September 2001.
Ochoa Restrepo suffered from severe [obesity]] and died of kidney failure in 2002.
He was the subject of a brief segment in Full Circle with Michael Palin.
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