Green Beret who snuck Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn out of Japan speaks out

The former Green Beret who smuggled disgraced Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn out of Japan has spoken out to reveal the details of the plot. Michael Taylor, 59, and his son Peter are currently being held in U.S. federal custody pending an extradition request from Japan, where they are charged in Ghosn’s brazen December escape. The … Read more

Carlos Ghosn ‘wired £650,000 to firm run by man who smuggled him out of Japan’

Former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn wired more than £650,000 to a company linked to one of the men accused of helping smuggle him out of Japan in a box last year, prosecutors said in a new court filing. Prosecutors filed documents Tuesday detailing two wire transfers made by Ghosn in October 2019 as … Read more

Hitler-loving Medellin druglord Carlos Lehder Rivas released

A Colombian drug lord who helped create the infamous Medellin cartel along with Pablo Escobar has been extradited to Germany after serving 30 years in a prison in America.  Carlos Lehder Rivas, who was among the clan of traffickers who helped smuggle cocaine from Colombia to the U.S. in the 1970s and 1980s, landed in … Read more

Hitler-loving Medellin cartel co-founder Carlos Lehder Rivas goes free in Germany

A Colombian drug lord who helped create the infamous Medellin cartel along with Pablo Escobar has been extradited to Germany after serving 30 years in a prison in America.  Carlos Lehder Rivas, who was among the clan of traffickers who helped smuggle cocaine from Colombia to the U.S. in the 1970s and 1980s, landed in … Read more

The Casapueblo hotel took artist Carlos Páez Vilaró 36 years to construct on a Uruguayan cliff

This sprawling cliffside hotel might just be a contender for the world’s most eccentric – and is definitely a contender for any self-respecting post-lockdown bucket list. It takes architectural design in all manner of unexpected directions, with not a straight line to be seen. ‘Casapueblo’, near the Uruguayan beach-city celebrity-haunt of Punta del Este, was … Read more