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While a guilty plea for money laundering by a decorated University of Miami professor continues to send shockwaves through the academic, law enforcement and crime investigation communities, his Colombian go-between remains free, a walking example of how the US justice system sometimes rewards the most slippery of figures.
Jorge Luís Hernández Villazón, alias “Boliche,” was a drug trafficker who worked his way through the underworld to become part of the drug organization of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia — AUC), the murderous right-wing group that started as a proxy army for the Colombian government against leftist guerrillas and later became one of the largest drug operations in the world. Read the Analysis >
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