Juan Matta-Ballesteros
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title:
Juan Matta-Ballesteros
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Juan Ramón Matta-Ballesteros is a Honduran former major narcotics trafficker who has been credited with being one of the first to connect Mexican drug traffickers with the Colombian cocaine cartels. This connection paved the way for a major increase in the amount of cocaine smuggled into the United States during the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s. Matta was indicted for operating several major cocaine smuggling rings in United States in the early 1980s. He was also one of the narcotics traf
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Honduran drug lord (born 1945)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Matta-Ballesteros
date created:
2006-03-30T16:16:23Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T01:29:42Z
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