http://theowp.org/minatitlan-and-a-sad-history-of-massacres/

Minatitlán And A Sad History Of Massacres

https://www.insightcrime.org/news/analysis/la-linea-gang-colombia-venezuela-border/

La Línea’ Gang Takes Deadly Hold on Colombia-Venezuela Border

https://www.insightcrime.org/news/analysis/medellin-oficina-envigado-capos-shuffle-game/

For Medellín’s Oficina Capos, the Shuffle is Part of the Game

https://www.kxii.com/content/news/T...to-be-extradited-to-Texas-510543771.html

Thirteen Colombians, some part of drug cartels, to be extradited to Texas

https://colombiareports.com/is-this-the-new-medellin-cartel/

Is this the new Medellin Cartel?

From what I´ve heard the nightlife of Medellin is amazing.

https://thewest.com.au/news/crime/w...run-by-24-year-old-mr-big-ng-b881224421z

WA police smash criminal empire run by 24-year-old known as ‘The Kid’

Medellin’s ‘top mafia boss’ arrested

https://colombiareports.com/medellins-top-mafia-boss-arrested/

https://colombiareports.com/one-of-colombias-most-wanted-narcos-killed-by-police/

‘Chucho Mercancia’, one of Colombia’s most wanted narcos, killed by police

In an international partnership between the Colombian authorities and Europol under the name Operation Tayrona, 19,522 kilos of cocaine was intercepted. It concerns 140 different shipments. In total almost 600 arrests were made.

More than 100 weapons and 14,000 items of ammunition were seized. Rocket launchers and grenades were also found. Operation Tayrona, which set up a command center in Bogota, Colombia and one in The Hague, Holland, ran from 8 March to 16 June.

Europol has not disclosed anything about the identity of the more than 500 suspects.

https://foxsanantonio.com/news/local/5m-reward-for-one-of-deas-most-wanted

Huge reward for one of DEA's most wanted drug lord Otoniel

Atlantic County man killed in Colombia in targeted hit.

https://www.breakingac.com/2019/06/atlantic-county-man-killed-colombia/

https://www.thesun.ie/news/4269777/irish-man-cocaine-gun-arrest-spain/

COKE & GUN BUST Irish fugitive who ‘led gang with Colombian cartels to smuggle tonnes of cocaine to UK’ nabbed in Spain

Interesting those former paramilitaries are very low key.

https://colombiareports.com/one-of-...ds-protected-by-the-military-for-months/

One of Colombia’s most wanted drug lords ‘protected by the military for months’

https://world.greekreporter.com/2019/06/29/roberto-escobar-pablos-brother-tells-his-story/

Roberto Escobar: Pablo’s Brother Tells His Story

https://www.insightcrime.org/news/brief/key-arrests-reveal-constru-quiet-rise-power-colombia/

Allies in High Places Behind ‘La Constru’ Rise in Colombia

https://metro.co.uk/2019/07/15/drug...-pablo-escobars-brother-claims-10319181/

Drug smugglers are using Tesla’s Autopilot to dodge the police, Pablo Escobar’s brother claims

https://colombiareports.com/how-colombias-booming-drug-trade-is-threatening-democracy/

How Colombia’s booming drug trade is threatening democracy

The Tour dream of drug lord Escobar
By RAYMOND KERCKHOFFS

Updated 1 hour ago
Today, 06:44 in WHEEL RIDING

MEDELLIN / BAGNÈRES - DRUG baron Pablo Escobar tried to participate in the Tour de France with his own Colombian cycling team in the golden years of his Medellin cartel. That explains his brother Roberto Escobar, who is three years older than him, in an exclusive interview with De Telegraaf that appears on Saturday.


Roberto Escobar, the brother of Pablo Escobar, makes a striking revelation: "Our dream was to participate in the Tour de France with the first Colombian cycling team in history."

As children, the brothers Roberto and Pablo Escobar fall under the spell of cycling when they see their local cycling hero Ramon Hóyes defeat the European stars Fausto Coppi and Hugo Koblet on a climb near Medellin. Later both brothers cycle on the steep streets of the Colombian metropolis and dream that they will ride the Tour de France.

Roberto Escobar opts for the sport and grows to become the third best cyclist in his country in the late 1960s, while Pablo develops into El Patrón in the global drug trade. Later both started the Ositto bicycle brand, which is mainly abused to launder money. With this Roberto makes his appearance as the accountant of the Medellin cartel.

Cocaine bikes
When Pablo Escobar wants to go for the presidency of Colombia, both brothers set up their own cycling team in the late 1970s to promote his campaign: the 'Pablo Escobar Renovacion Liberal' team. "Our dream was to participate in the Tour de France with the first Colombian cycling team in history," reveals the now 72-year-old Roberto. "We wanted to give Colombian talents a chance in the most important race." It is probably no coincidence that a number of Colombian cyclists will be stopped later in Europe while their bicycle tubes are full of cocaine.

The best rider of the Escobar team, Gonzalo Marín, grows to be one of the cartel's most feared criminals after his short active career. Marín is designated as the perpetrator of the terrorist bombing of the building of the Colombian security service in Bogota, where 52 people were killed.

Close the cash tap
When Pablo Escobar's political career gets stuck because his drug trafficking for the congress is proven, the money for the cycling team closes. There is also a conflict with the chairman of the Colombian cycling federation Miguél Angel Bermudez during that period, who is also busy lobbying to get a team with the Eagles of the Andes in the Tour de France. Bermudez barely survives a bomb attack in his car, which is linked to the Medellin cartel. Bermudez nevertheless managed to get a Colombian amateur team to the start of the Tour for the first time in 1983.

Out of sheer frustration, the Escobar brothers are building a private cycling track near the El Tesoro shopping center in Medellin where the world's best cyclists are invited to private competitions.

https://kfgo.com/news/articles/2019...fraud-cartel/925919/?refer-section=world

Colombia arrests eight, breaks up $670 million VAT fraud 'cartel'

Former Colombian boss targeted by attempted murder last week.

Edgar Guillermo Vallejo Guarín was shot twice while in his car in the Calima Lake area, north of Cali, Valle del Cauca Department. Nicknamed "Beto el Gitano", he was on the list of the most wanted traffickers in the 1990s and was arrested for drug trafficking in Spain in 2008. He was then extradited from Spain to the United States, before returning to Colombia after serving his sentence. To the police arrived after the attack, the man presented fires identification papers but with his real photo.
The building where the attack took place is believed to be linked to Leyner Valencia Espinosa, who was sentenced to 7 years in prison in the United States and returned to Colombia in 2014. "Beto el Gitano" was with Dairo Valencia Espinosa, brother of Leyner, during his arrest in Mexico in 2010. He was also close to the third brother, Nelson Rubiel Cañar Valencia, extradited in 2009 to the United States for trafficking in cocaine and heroin. The brothers, nicknamed the "Valencia clan", were then linked to the Mexican cartel Beltran Leyva.

Colombia, Suarez mayor candidate killed in ambush

Karina Garcia, a candidate for mayor of Suarez, in southwestern Colombia, was killed along with five other people who were with her. The armored car on which the candidate of the Liberal party traveled, along with the escort and her mother, was riddled with bullets and subsequently set on fire.

In a tweet, the Colombian Ombudsman condemned the "massacre perpetrated". The area where Garcia was killed - previously threatened with death - "is an area of ​​the indigenous community" repeatedly hit by violence linked to drug trafficking and illegal extraction, explained Jair Rossi, the regional ombudsman.

The governor of Cauca, Oscar Campo, said that in total inside the vehicle there were seven people, one of whom threw himself out of the car at the time of the attack and was saved, while the others died. The governor added that it is too early to establish the perpetrators of the massacre with certainty, but stressed that Suarez is surrounded by illicit crops and laboratories for cocaine processing, and a dissident group of the Farc and the criminal gang of the Farc are active in the territory. "Los Pelusos".

The security forces, however, report the media, not have currently been able to confirm the band's involvement in the attack. Karina Garcia, as shown by a video she herself shot in mid-August, had received several threats during the election campaign. An alarm extended to many of the participants in the political dispute, reports the newspaper "El Espectador" citing a document presented by the People's Defender in early July. A text in which various testimonies of threats attributed to local armed groups are reported including factions of the same FARC. Local authorities also report that last Saturday - in the same province - three more people were found murdered, and three other bodies with heads in plastic bags were found on Sunday night. On 27 October there will be elections of regional leaders in Colombia: mayors,

https://twnews.it/it-news/colombia-uccisa-in-un-agguato-la-candidata-sindaca-di-suarez

Mexican Sinaloa Cartel claims responsibility for the killing.

https://sputniknews.com/latam/20190...r-killing-colombian-politician--reports/

‘Mafia planning to assassinate journalists who revealed ties between narco and Colombia’s ruling party’

https://colombiareports.com/mafia-p...etween-narco-and-colombias-ruling-party/

https://www.insightcrime.org/investigations/the-invisibles-of-the-drug-world/


Great article on one of the "Invisible" Narco's. We hear all about El Chapo and Escobar but I always wonder about the ones that go under the radar and quietly make there money away from the limelight.

The author does some great investigative journalism to uncover Memo and it really gives a clear picture how the Guerrillas and Narcos worked together after the fall of Escobar and the Medellin Cartel.

This was a killer article, thanks! Researching further, didn’t find anything similar. Found this on Pablo Escobar’s hippos 🦛.

https://www.gangsterismout.com/2020/04/pablo-escobars-cocaine-hippos-doing-fine.html?m=1

Its almost as if the Shadow Government = a quasi Narco/Mafiosi Government, this quarantine, could be another step towards something like that!!

Massive opportunities available or soon to be.

Earlier this week in rural Alcalá, Valle del Cauca, the Police Dijin captured Miguel Antonio Meneses, alias El Ingeniero, the main leader of 'La H', a criminal organization dedicated to drug trafficking in Cauca and Nariño.

​​El Ingeniero is wanted by the Dallas, Texas district of the United States for drug trafficking and terrorist financing. According to the investigations, his drug trafficking organization established in Cauca and Nariño has the support of Manuel Vásquez Castaño of the ELN, said Defense Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo.

The capture, for extradition purposes, was supported by the Attorney General's Office, the American DEA, and the Jungle Company of the Anti-Narcotics Directorate.

According to the investigation, this man coordinated the shipment of cocaine to Central American countries and to the United States; the drug used to be marked with the logo of a horseshoe.

The man, whose criminal activity dates back to the 1980s, when he produced cocaine for the Medellín Cartel, was reported as dead last year before the National Registry of Civil Status.

The chief of the Public Prosecution Service in Colombia confirmed in an interview this week that an extremely wealthy Colombian, who heads a real estate company in Madrid, is indeed a cocaine trader, known only in small circles in Colombia as The ghost. His identity and whereabouts were revealed by Colombian journalists last month.

In a radio interview , Attorney General Francisco Barbosa now says that police investigations have concluded that Acevedo Giraldo is indeed the criminal Memo Fantasma.

Sensitive
The case is sensitive in Colombia because it was published in April about a business relationship between the husband of Colombian Vice President Marta Lucía Ramírez and a Colombian company owned by Acevedo Giraldo. The vice president denied being aware of this.

After the publication by InsightCrime, Acevedo Giraldo filed a complaint of defamation and slander in Colombia .

The Colombian police completed an investigation file on Acevedo Giraldo in April, according to the Attorney General. As of now, the man is not known to be actively tracked down by either the Colombian authorities or the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). It is unknown whether justice in Colombia now wants to start a case against him.