Evaristo Porras Ardila ("Papá Doc") was one of the top Colombian cocaine traffickers and regarded as one of the leaders of the Medellín Cartel.
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.
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.
[7] In January 1987 at the Hotel Bahía Marina located in San Andrés, he was captured for the third time in one of the raids deployed by the Colombian police after the death of Guillermo Cano, but a military judge released him shortly afterwards.
This capture would mean the definitive demise of one of the most infamous Colombian drug lord's empire; he was not only known for his eccentric properties, notably a luxury brothel in the middle of the jungle, but also for his incursions into politics.