Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Colombia, Mexico crack down on drug gangs

A pair of major blows against drug gangs took place over the last 24 hours in Colombia and Mexico.

Colombian police captured one of the most wanted drug capos this morning: Daniel Rendon Herrera (alias "Don Mario"). Herrera was arrested in a clandestine police operation along with between twenty to thirty men at a farm where they were hiding.

A former right-wing paramilitary, "Don Mario" allied himself to a recently-formed criminal group and had offered a $1000 bounty for each police officer his gang killed. Herrera could be extradited to the U.S. for supposedly smuggling tons of cocaine in the 1990s.

In Mexico, meanwhile, authorities arrested a 20-year-old woman guarding a massive arsenal allegedly for use by the Beltran-Leyva drug cartel. An anti air-craft machine gun, five rifles, and part of a grenade launcher where some of the weapons confiscated by police during a routine patrol.

Yesterday’s actions come as the Mexican government claims that nearly 90% of the 12,000 pistols and rifles confiscated from drug gangs last year came from U.S. dealers.

Image- AP (“Anahi Beltran Cabrera, center, who was arrested guarding an arsenal, is presented to the media at a police base in Mexico City, Tuesday, April 14, 2009.”)
Online Sources- BBC News, Sky News, AP, UPI, The Telegraph, Colombia Reports

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