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XIV The Cast of Characters Bill Bruton. IRS agent assigned to Operation Dinero. Morris Busby. U.S. ambassador to Colombia at the time that the existence of the narco cassettes was revealed. George Bush. President of the United States from 1989 to 1993. Guillermo Cano. Crusading Colombian journalist murdered by drug traffickers in December 1986. Rafael Cardona. A Cali Cartel mole inside the Medellin Cartel who, in Novem- ber 1986, tipped off police that Jorge Ochoa would be in the Cali area. Amado Carrillo Fuentes (aka "Lord of the Skies"). Carrillo Fuentes was the Cali Cartel's most important contact in Mexico until his death in 1997. Jimmy Carter. President of the United States from 1977 to 1981. Tom Cash. DEA administrator in Miami in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Carlos Castano. Brother of Fidel and a Colombian paramilitary leader. Fidel Castano. Brother of Carlos and a Colombian paramilitary leader who played a major role in the PEPES. Jorge Castillo. Secretary and driver for Miguel Rodriguez. Bill Clinton. President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Tom Constantine. Head administrator of the DEA from 1994 to 1997. Ken Cook. NYSP detective who investigated the Minden lab explosion in 1984. Rich Crawford. DEA agent who played a major role in the investigation of the Cali Cartel, first as Group Five's detective and later as a DEA agent assigned to the agency's Tampa office. Alfredo Cervantes. Chepe Santacruz's right-hand man in the United States from 1981 to 1984. Victor Crespo. Alias for Jose Santacruz Londono. Oscar Cuevas. Money launderer for the Cali Cartel. Manuel de Dios Unanue. Crusading New York City investigative journalist whom authorities believe Santacruz Londono murdered in 1992. Gustavo De Greiff. Colombia's Prosecuting Attorney General from 1992 to 1994. General Guillermo Diettes. The director of the Colombian National Police (CNP) whom General Rosso Jose Serrano replaced in 1994. Juan Pablo Escobar. Son of Pablo Escobar. Manuela Escobar. Daughter of Pablo Escobar. Pablo Escobar. Founding godfather of the Medellin Cartel and a bitter rival of the Cali Cartel. Roberto Escobar. Brother of Pablo Escobar. Victoria Escobar. Wife of Pablo Escobar. Juan Carlos Esguerra. Colombian Foreign Minister in Ernesto Samper's presi- dential administration. Carlos Espinosa (aka "Pinchalito"). Espinosa headed the Cali Cartel's commu- nications operation.