Colombia's mafia and the media Part 3: Julio Sanchez
by Adriaan Alsema July 13, 2020
One of Colombia’s most influential radio hosts, Julio Sanchez who used to be an ally of legendary anti-mafia politician Luis Carlos Galan,has gone to doing lip service for former members of the Medellin Cartel.
The current boss of W Radio began his career supporting Galan, who opposed the cartel’s influence in politics until cartel founder Pablo Escobar ordered the politician’s assassination in 1989.
But somewhere between then and now, Sanchez appears to have changed sides.
From anti-mafia advocate to mafia apologist
The W Radio director in 2007 was accused of receiving bribes to favor Medellin Cartel co-founder Fabio Ochoa and being friends with former cartel drug trafficker Carlos Ramon Zapata, a.k.a. “El Medico.”
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