Last year its president, Miguel Angel Rodriguez, announced that all Central Americans in his country on November 9th would be eligible for permanent residence, with full access to education, health care and other social services.

ECONOMIST: Central American migrants

Its bosses, headed by Miguel and Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, are now in prison.

ECONOMIST: Colombia contemplates extraditing its drugsters

The Cali cartel under the leadership of Miguel and Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela dominated cocaine exports to the United States in the 1980s.

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