Colombia captures top drug lord

Source: BBC News

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

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

The government had offered a $1.3m (£870,000) bounty for the drug baron, AFP news agency reported.

Colombia is a major source of cocaine, and drug trafficking has helped fuel the country's decades-long conflict.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8000528.stm

Colombian authorities arrest drug lord "Don Mario"
Americas News
Apr 15, 2009, 15:02 GMT

Bogota - Colombian police arrested Wednesday Daniel Rendon, known with the alias 'Don Mario,' the boss of a paramilitary gang devoted to drug trafficking.

Cesar Mauricio Velasquez, press secretary at the government palace in Bogota, said that the man - one of the most sought after suspects in Colombia - was arrested in the town of Apartado, in the northwestern region of Antioquia.

Police said that the operation that led to the arrest started a month earlier, when 600 elite officers cornered 'Don Mario' between Apartado and Necocli, a town in the Urabab region, on the Panamanian border.

Rendon was the leader of a group of some 1,000 paramilitaries known as the Autodefensas Gaitanistas, which was regarded as one of Colombia's main drug cartels.

Colombian authorities had offered a reward of some 2.1 million dollars for information leading to the arrest of 'Don Mario,' 43. The United States is seeking his extradition.

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"Don Mario," Daniel Rendon

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Colombian policemen guard an assortment of weapons on May 17, 2008, in Bogota. According
to authorities the machine guns seized belonged to drug lord Daniel Rendon Herrera a.k.a
"Don Mario" and were found in Santander department, Colombia, near the border with Venezuela.

:sarcasm:

they show communist flags of Peru's Shining path and Colombia's FARC linked to their drug trafficking activities but did not see any pictures or mention of the paramilitaries and soldiers involve in such activities, wonder why?

like the slow ones among us who claim Nazis are communists.

Apparently they want people to believe that all the evil in the world is created by "Not Republican U.S. Americans."

You would expect more from a federally created DEA museum exhibition, (funded by left-wing AND right-wing Americans) wouldn't you?

with all the facts, not being bias omitting information.