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Juan Ramón Matta Ballesteros, 80, Dies; Cartel Kingpin Fed Cocaine Boom

New York Times 1 min read 19 hours ago

Before being imprisoned in the late 1980s, he made a fortune as a Honduran power broker connecting Colombian and Mexican cartels.
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