Rodriguez drove the Cali cartel which once controlled 80% of the worldwide cocaine market, as indicated by a contemporary report from the US Drug Enforcement Administration.
Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, 83, passed on Tuesday while serving a 30-year drug dealing sentence.
Rodriguez, who was some of the time known by his nom de plume the Chess Player, drove the cartel which once controlled 80% of the worldwide cocaine market, as per a contemporary report from the US Drug Enforcement Administration.
He was removed to the United States in 2004 and was spending time in jail at a government jail in Butner in North Carolina.
In a proclamation shared by his girl Alexandra, Rodriguez’s family said he passed on from lymphoma.
Rodriguez’s sibling Miguel was caught two months after the fact in 1995 and is likewise carrying out a punishment in the US.
The siblings sent bombs and vigilantes against their medication dealer foe Pablo Escobar, who was killed in a police activity in 1993.
They likewise admitted to supporting political missions, remembering that of Liberal Party president Ernesto Samper for 1994, who has denied having any information on the gifts at that point.
The medication master’s 1995 capture by Colombian specialists denoted the start of the crumbling of the Cali cartel.
Rodriguez’s family said they were starting the most common way of removing his remaining parts back to Colombia.