Especially in Bogota there are representatives of the bigger Mexican cartels like Sinaloa, CJNG, Zetas around where they conduct business with Colombian organized crime groups - usually representatives of the Urabeños group that are active in Bogota as well.

Miguel Devesa is a former police officer from the Spanish region of Galicia. Traditionally in Galicia there are small, often family-based groups active who act as "brokers" between bigger Colombian and European (often from the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, France, Italy, Turkey and the Balkans) criminal organizations. A European organized crime group connects with a Colombian group to procure a large shipment of cocaine. And when they use the Spanish route, both groups often acquire the services of a Galician smuggling group to get the shipment safely from point A to point B. Clan Devesa is such a group. A noteworthy element is that Miguel Devesa for a long time operated from Mali and controlled a few smuggling routes through West Africa. Many Galician smuggling groups aren't really all that active anymore - they were never exceptionally large and (compared to other criminal organizations) not exceptionally violent groups - and in recent years Colombians themselves controlled quite a few routes to Spain. The Devesa clan on the other hand was still an active example of the traditional Galician smugglers.