Fabio Ochoa Restrepo

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Fabio Ochoa Restrepo ("Don Fabio" 1923 – 2002) was a Paso Fino enthusiast, rancher, businessman, and patriarch of a notorious Colombian crime family associated with the Medellín drug cartel of Pablo Escobar. One of the best hidden secrets of the medellin Cartel. It is generally assumed that Ochoa himself was not linked to drug trafficking, although his sons are well-known for their involvement in the trade. Jorge Luis Ochoa, was at one time considered the number two leader in the Medellin cartel: In 1996 he was arrested from a five year prison sentence in Colombia. Fabio Ochoa Vázquez "Fabito" (b. 1957) was extradited to the United States in September 2001.

Fabio Ochoa suffered from severe obesity and died of kidney failure in 2002.

He was the subject of a brief segment in Full Circle with Michael Palin.

He was portrayed in the 2006 documentary film Cocaine Cowboys'.' In this documentary, Jon Roberts, a major trafficker in Miami, actually corrects the public's misinformation that Pablo Escobar was actually in charge of the Medellin drug cartel, when in fact the Ochoa family, headed by Fabio Ochoa, were actually above Escobar.