Evaristo Porras, 62; trafficked drugs for Medellin cartel

BOGOTA - Evaristo Porras, a former high-flying Medellin cartel drug trafficker associated with Pablo Escobar in the 1980s, has died at age 62, reportedly in economic ruin.

Mr. Porras’s death was first reported yesterday by El Tiempo.

“He died of a heart attack in his Bogota home, . . . broke’’ on March 3, the paper said.

Mr. Porras controlled lucrative trafficking routes on Colombia’s southeastern border with Peru in the 1980s.

Living regally in the Amazon city of Leticia during the Medellin cartel’s heyday, Mr. Porras built a likeness there of the mansion featured in the US television series “Dallas.’’