Evarista Porras Arcila

Evaristo Porras Ardila ("Papá Doc") (“Godoc”) was one of the top Colombian cocaine traffickers and regarded as one of the leaders of the Medellín Cartel. He had strong influence in Leticia, the capital of the Amazonas region of Colombia. Porras is suspected to have been the head of the Leticia-Tabatinga cartel organized crime syndicate.

Political scandals

He became famous in 1984 when it was known that he had made a large money contribution to the senate campaign of the then minister of Justice Rodrigo Lara Bonilla. Minister Lara, who always said to be a victim of a setup, was assassinated by hitmen of Medellin Cartel on April 30, 1984 in Bogotá. This was the first assassination committed by the Colombian Mafia.

Several years later, Porras again was involved in another political scandal, when it was known that he was present in a political meeting in which the politicians Rodrigo Turbay Cote and Jorge Eduardo Gechem also participated. This caused both politicians to be expelled out of the Liberal Colombian Party .

Arrests

He was detained for the first time in 1978 but was able to escape by feigning illness. On the day of his breakout, he was helped by his lawyer and partner Vladimiro Montesinos and escaped out of the prison Daniel Carrión at the Peruvian port city of El Callao by saying he had appendicitis.

After his breakout in Perú, he sought refuge and would go out to direct his business in either Medellín or San Andrés, cities where he had properties. In Medellín, he again would be captured for the second time in May 1984 in one of the operations deployed by the Colombian Police after the death of Lara Bonilla. He was freed because he could only be indicted for illegal possession of firearms.

Popular culture In TV series Pablo Escobar, The Drug Lord is portrayed by the actor and comedian Carlos Hurtado as the character of Crisanto Porras.