Leonidas Vargas, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Colombian drug lord
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Place of Birth: Caquetá Department, Colombia
About Leonidas Vargas
- Leonidas Vargas Vargas (May 13, 1949 – January 8, 2009), also known as "El Viejo" and "The King of Caqueta", was a Colombian drug lord who headed a multimillion-dollar cocaine empire associated with the MedellÃn Cartel and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
- Vargas became one of the richest drug lords in Colombia, as well as one of the most wanted by police. In 1995 Vargas began serving a six-year prison term, during which he survived an assassination attack when his rivals set off a bomb at his jail.
- In 2006, he was again arrested in Madrid for cocaine trafficking.
- While awaiting a trial on those charges, Vargas was killed on January 8, 2009, when he was shot to death in a hospital bed.
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