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On July 14, 1986, a Spanish court decided to extradite Ochoa to stand trial in Colombia.
This date is wrong. Spanish courts had already given Colombia preference in March 1986, and Ochoa was actually extradited on July 13, 1986.
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Contemporary reporting shows the extradition decision was not made on July 14, 1986.
- El País reported on March 26, 1986 that Spain's Audiencia Nacional had already decided to give Colombia preference over the United States for Jorge Luis Ochoa's extradition.
- UPI then reported that Ochoa was actually extradited on July 13, 1986. That same report says the case's remaining jurisdictional dispute was resolved on July 7, after which he was flown to Colombia on Sunday, July 13.
So July 14 was not the date a Spanish court decided to extradite him to Colombia. By then, the decisive court ruling had been made months earlier, and Ochoa had already been sent to Colombia the day before.
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- La Audiencia Nacional acuerda entregar a Jorge Ochoa a Colombia para que sea juzgado por tráfico de droga | EL PAÍS
La Audiencia Nacional ha dado preferencia a la petición de Colombia sobre la de Estados Unidos para la entrega del colombiano Jorge Luis Ochoa...
- Reputed drug kingpin extradited to Colombia - UPI Archives
The reputed leader... was extradited by Spain to his native Colombia Sunday... Ochoa, who arrived in Bogota at 7:30 a.m. Sunday... The case was resolved July 7...
Fedegan, the Antioquia livestock federation
FEDEGÁN is not Antioquia's livestock federation. It is the national Colombian cattle federation.
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This description misidentifies FEDEGÁN.
FEDEGÁN's own official "Quiénes somos" page states that it is the "Federación Colombiana de Ganaderos" and describes it as "gremio cúpula de la ganadería colombiana"—that is, the top national guild/body for Colombian cattle ranching. That makes it a national Colombian federation, not a federation limited to the department of Antioquia.
So the article's label "the Antioquia livestock federation" is factually incorrect.
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- Quiénes Somos | Fedegán
La Federación Colombiana de Ganaderos FEDEGÁN es una organización gremial... FEDEGÁN, como gremio cúpula de la ganadería colombiana...
with an estimated worth near $3 billion
Forbes did not estimate Jorge Ochoa alone at nearly $3 billion. Forbes said the Ochoa brothers together shared more than $2 billion.
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This overstates Jorge Ochoa's Forbes-estimated fortune.
Forbes' own retrospective on its billionaire coverage says that in 1987 the magazine included "the Ochoa brothers"—Jorge Luis, Fabio and Juan David—on its first World's Billionaires List, and that "the brothers shared more than $2 billion." That is a collective estimate for the brothers, not an estimate of nearly $3 billion for Jorge Ochoa alone.
A contemporaneous UPI report on the 1992 Forbes list likewise summarized Forbes' assessment by saying the Ochoa brothers were believed to have cleared more than $2 billion from the cocaine business.
So the article's wording incorrectly attributes a much larger, individual net-worth estimate to Jorge Ochoa than Forbes actually reported.
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- Billionaire Druglords: El Chapo Guzman, Pablo Escobar, The Ochoa Brothers | Forbes
In 1987, we included ... the Ochoa brothers... on our first World's Billionaires List... Forbes said in 1987 that the brothers shared more than $2 billion.
- Two Japanese businessman top Forbes' richest list - UPI Archives
His Medellin co-founders, the Ochoa brothers of Colombia... are believed to have cleared more than $2 billion from the cocaine business, Forbes said.