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.