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Alleged Colombian gang leader seized in Venezuela
Source: Associated Press
Alleged Colombian gang leader seized in Venezuela
AP foreign, Monday June 4 2012
FRANK BAJAK
Associated Press= CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan soldiers captured an alleged Colombian drug trafficker Sunday who authorities say ruthlessly ran the neighboring country's biggest right-wing criminal gang and conspired to export tons of cocaine to the United States through Mexico and Central America.
Diego Perez Henao, 41, is one of Colombia's "most sinister drug traffickers and murderers," Colombia's national police director-designate, Gen. Jose Roberto Leon, told reporters in Bogota.
Colombian officials called him the leader of the "Rastrojos," or Leftovers, a violent offshoot of the Norte del Valle cartel that engages in drug trafficking, extortion and murder as it competes with other criminal bands that grew out of the far-right militias known as paramilitaries.
The gang, which is thought to have hundreds of members, operates on Colombia's Pacific coast and along the border with Venezuela, Colombian police say.
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AP foreign, Monday June 4 2012
FRANK BAJAK
Associated Press= CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan soldiers captured an alleged Colombian drug trafficker Sunday who authorities say ruthlessly ran the neighboring country's biggest right-wing criminal gang and conspired to export tons of cocaine to the United States through Mexico and Central America.
Diego Perez Henao, 41, is one of Colombia's "most sinister drug traffickers and murderers," Colombia's national police director-designate, Gen. Jose Roberto Leon, told reporters in Bogota.
Colombian officials called him the leader of the "Rastrojos," or Leftovers, a violent offshoot of the Norte del Valle cartel that engages in drug trafficking, extortion and murder as it competes with other criminal bands that grew out of the far-right militias known as paramilitaries.
The gang, which is thought to have hundreds of members, operates on Colombia's Pacific coast and along the border with Venezuela, Colombian police say.
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Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/10271690
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Maybe time in prison will allow him to catch up on the latest developements in rice farming journals.
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