Juan Ramón Matta Ballesteros, 80, Dies; Cartel Kingpin Fed Cocaine Boom
胡安·拉蒙·马塔·巴列斯特罗斯，80岁去世；贩毒大亨推动了可卡因热潮
Juan Ramón Matta Ballestero in an undated photo. He held an unusual amount of power in the drug trade for someone from Central America, whose traffickers were generally not considered serious players.
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At his death, Mr. Matta Ballesteros had served more than 30 years of a life sentence for distributing cocaine in California and Arizona. He was granted compassionate release on medical grounds by a district court judge in May, but that decision was reversed by an appeals court in September, and he remained incarcerated.
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