A FARC leader, alias “Valenciano,” has been killed during military operations in northern Colombia, reported local media Wednesday. Valenciano, the leader of the FARC’s 5th Front, was taken down during combat...
Local authorities, analysts and statistics clashed with U.K. daily The Guardian Wednesday after the newspaper claimed Medellin’s security improvements over the past ten years had been “blown apart” by drug gang...
Colombian crime boss Carlos Esneider Quintero Galvis, alias “El Gomelo,” has died in Venezuela, reports local media. The right hand man of the drug lord “Valenciano” and the heir apparent of the drug...
Colombia has extradited alleged drug traffickers Jacinto Enrique Baez and Jose Benito Villarreal to the U.S. Tuesday, local media reported. As leader of the “Baez Clan”, Baez is suspected of overseeing the shipment...
Colombian crime boss “Valenciano” was extradited from Venezuela to the United States Thursday to answer charges of drug trafficking. Valenciano was arrested during a Colombian and Venezuelan joint operation November...
Venezuela said Thursday it will deport the girlfriend of arrested drug lord “Valenciano,” leader of the Medellin-based “Oficina de Envigado” to Colombia. According to newspaper El Tiempo, Viviana Cecilia...
Four men have been killed in a shooting in Colombia’s second largest city, Medellin, local media reported on Monday. The quadruple murder happened in the eastern Manrique neighborhood of the Antioquian capital. According...
Maximiliano Bonilla Orozco, alias “Valeciano,” will not face trial in the United States as his guilt has already been established, said the director of Colombia’s National Police. “This person is not...
Colombia’s National Police Force launched on Thursday a “major offensive” against Medellin drug trafficking organization “Oficina de Envigado.” Following the arrest of the illegal gang’s...
Venezuela said Monday it will extradite Colombian drug lord “Valenciano” to the United States if a formal request is made by that country. Valenciano, whose real name is Maximiliano Bonilla, will be “deported...
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez announced the bilateral lifting of tariffs on 3,500 products, following a meeting Monday. Santos said the aim was to recover trade between the two...
Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos arrived in Venezuela Monday morning to meet with his counterpart, Hugo Chavez, to discuss crime and trade. Santos thanked his Venezuelan counterpart for the capture of Medellin drug...
