Colombia captures top drug lord

[edesignuk]

Colombian authorities have arrested the country's most wanted drug lord, the government has said.

Daniel Rendon Herrera, known as "Don Mario", was captured early on Wednesday near Necocli in north-western Colombia, officials said.

The government had offered a bounty of up to $2m (£1.3m) for information leading to his arrest.

Colombia is the world's leading cocaine producer. Drug trafficking has fuelled the country's decades-long conflict.

Daniel Rendon is accused of smuggling hundreds of tonnes of cocaine from an area on the Caribbean coast controlled in the 1990s by his brother - a paramilitary leader who is now in prison.

Earlier this year he offered his gunmen almost $1,000 for each police officer they murdered, as security forces closed in on his network.

Defence Minster Juan Manuel Santos said Daniel Rendon could be responsible for huge number of deaths.

"He could be charged with over 3,000 homicides in the course of gaining control over territory to be used in the illicit drug trade," he said.

The minister said Daniel Rendon had been found cowering under a palm tree and had "practically looked like a dog".

BBC.

 

[MacNut]

Hurry the war on drugs is over......wait. Capture one 10 more will take over. We will never win this.

 

[thomahawk]

oh... soon we'll get that war in mexico. and if we ever do, it better end the whole problem. do it once completely rather than do it and then have to go back and do it again.

lets not make the same mistake we did in somalia and in the middle east

 

[ravenvii]

oh... soon we'll get that war in mexico. and if we ever do, it better end the whole problem. do it once completely rather than do it and then have to go back and do it again.

lets not make the same mistake we did in somalia and in the middle east

From what I hear, there's already almost an all-out civil war in Mexico that's not covered by the media at all.

 

[cdcastillo]

From what I hear, there's already almost an all-out civil war in Mexico that's not covered by the media at all.

Yes and no. There is already an all-out war, yes, but it is not a civil war, that's a really different thing.

Right now (or at least up to february, that was when I moved out) if you are not a drug dealer nor a member of some law enforcement agency, you have almost nothing to fear, but a lost bullet on some cities in México.

And about the media coverage, I don't know what about the states, but in México every time something happens, it makes it to the evening news and to the news papers.

 

[ravenvii]

And about the media coverage, I don't know what about the states, but in México every time something happens, it makes it to the evening news and to the news papers.

Yeah that's what I meant, in the States.

 

[Redline13]

Hurry the war on drugs is over......wait. Capture one 10 more will take over. We will never win this.

I totally agree. For every "Kingpin" captured someone else will step in to feed the demand. Nothing will change until the massive demand for illegal drugs abates.

 

[Abstract]

Wow. This is pretty amazing news.

It's the real-life equivalent of catching Kaiser Söze.

 

[Don't panic]

Hurry the war on drugs is over......wait. Capture one 10 more will take over. We will never win this.

still arresting a guy responsible for thousands of violent deaths can't be too bad.

 

[Mr. Giver '94]

I was expecting him to look more like this...

 

[yojitani]

still arresting a guy responsible for thousands of violent deaths can't be too bad.

...until the next guy tries to outdo him.


@ Mr. Giver '94's pic. Wine & crack house?