Seven drug gang members captured by security forces will be extradited to the U.S. Thursday to face trial, reports Radio Santa Fe.
4,000 Chinese rifles were exchanged for cocaine.
A series of country-wide raids on Wednesday saw the capture of 28 members of drug gangs, demonstrating Colombia’s desire to wipe out what some officials have called Colombia’s number one security threat.
The U.S. is also stepping up action against the drug gangs, many of whom are direct descendents of the paramilitary groups who demobilized in 2003-2006. On Wednesday it announced the indictment of several leaders of Colombian neo-paramilitary and drug gangs.
According to U.S. Attorney Wilfredo Ferrer, the Southern District of Florida, the DEA,