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XVI The Cast of Characters Helmer Herrera-Buitrago (aka "Pacho"). He was one of the four major godfa- thers in the Cali Cartel hierarchy. Ramon Herrera-Buitrago. Brother of Pacho Herrera and the manager of Pacho's New York drug distribution cell. Michael Horn. Former DEA agent and current director of the National Intelli- gence Center in Johnston, Pennsylvania. Carlos Mauro Hoyos Jiminez. Colombian attorney general murdered by drug traffickers in January 1988. Frank Jackson. American lawyer who represented Cali Cartel operative Gus- tavo Naranjo after his arrest in 1991. Orlando Jaramillo. A Cali Cartel operative based in New York City until his arrest in December 1992. Jose Franklin Jurado Rodriguez. Money launderer for the Cali Cartel who was arrested in Luxembourg in 1989. Ed Kacerosky. U.S. customs agent who worked the Operation Cornerstone investigation. Michael Kane. Head of the DEA's Medellin office from 1981 to 1984. John Kerry. U.S. senator from Massachusetts and critic of Gustavo De Greiff, Colombia's Prosecuting Attorney General. Yair Klein. Israeli mercenary who provided weapons and ammunition to Rodriguez Gacha and trained some of his men. Michael Kuhlman. DEA agent who worked in the agency's Cali office in the early 1980s. Robert Lafferty. A pilot for the Cali Cartel who worked as a CI for the DEA until his death in 1986. Francisco Laguna. American lawyer who represented the Cali Cartel and played an important role as an interpreter and a translator of documents from English to Spanish. Heidi Landgraf. DEA agent assigned to Operation Green Ice. Rodrigo Lara Bonilla. Colombian justice minister murdered by drug traffickers after he successfully launched a raid on the mega cocaine-processing lab at Tranquilandia. Skip Latson. DEA agent assigned to Operation Dinero. Carlos Lehder. Founding member and leader in Medellin Cartel. Carlos Lemos. Colombian vice-president in the Ernesto Samper presidential administration. Roberto Levya. El Salvadoran air force colonel who met with the Cali Cartel's Jorge Salcedo in El Salvador. Henry Loiaza (aka "The Scorpion"). Loiaza was a Cali Cartel godfather until his capture in 1995. Jorge Lopez (aka "Tio"). A Cali Cartel operative who replaced Carlos Torres as the Cartel's cell-head in Miami. Alfonso Lopez Michelsen. President of Colombia from 1974 to 1978.