Earlier this month, Carlos Toro revealed himself for the first time via The Huffington Post as a former Medellín cartel official who became an informant for the Drug Enforcement Administration 27 years ago. Now 65 and ailing, Toro decided to go public, believing it might be the only way he could get out of the drug war. Over the past five years, Toro has been required to work for the DEA or face potential deportation back to Colombia, his country of birth, where he says he would be killed by remnants of the cartel.