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2004, 14:26 GMT Colombian drug baron extradited Gilberto
Rodriguez Orejuela is escorted by Colombian police to an airport
in Bogota Gilberto will be the most powerful Colombian drug lord
to face a US court One of the world's most notorious drug
traffickers, Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, has arrived in the US
after being extradited from Colombia.  President Alvaro Uribe
turned down his final legal appeals, and Rodriguez Orejuela was
put on a plane for the US.  Rodriguez Orejuela and his brother,
Miguel, ran the Cali drug cartel, which is thought to have
controlled 80% of the global cocaine trade in the 1990s.  He is
wanted in the US on charges of smuggling and money-laundering.
Rodriguez Orejuela was escorted, handcuffed and wearing a
bullet-proof jacket, by heavily armed police to a Bogota airport
and handed to US Drug Enforcement Administration officers.  He
arrived in Miami early on S