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Judi Lynn

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Mon Nov 2, 2015, 08:30 PM Nov 2015

This man may be Colombia's next top drug lord

This man may be Colombia's next top drug lord
Arron Daugherty Tomorrow at 7:54 AM



A new report stating that a shadowy drug trafficker, known as “Puntilla Pachon,” has become Colombia‘s latest narco boss brings into question whether criminal figureheads are still needed to regulate the underworld.

According to Semana, Oscar Mauricio Pachon Rozo, alias “Puntilla Pachon,” has inherited the criminal empires of two former associates who were recently killed during security operations, Victor Ramon Navarro Serrano, alias “Megateo,” and Martin Farfan Diaz Gonzalez, alias “Pijarbey.”

Megateo controlled coca crops, drug laboratories and trafficking routes across a large swath of Colombia’s northeastern Norte de Santander department. Pijarbey ran a drug trafficking group primarily based in the central department of Meta and the eastern department of Vichada. By inheriting these assets and combining them with his own territory in eastern Colombia, Puntilla has become the major drug lord in that part of the country, reported Semana.

Puntilla has spent decades in the underworld, working for the powerful Medellin and Cali Cartels before joining kingpin Daniel “El Loco” Barrera. Following Barrera’s extradition to the United States in 2013, Puntilla reportedly formed an alliance with Megateo, Pijarbey and neo-paramilitary organisation the Urabeños. Puntilla was also reportedly the successor to Barrera’s drug trafficking empire in Colombia’s Eastern Plains region.

More:
http://www.businessinsider.com.au/this-man-may-be-colombias-next-top-drug-lord-2015-11

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This man may be Colombia's next top drug lord (Original Post) Judi Lynn Nov 2015 OP
I wonder if he's cut a deal with Netflix flamingdem Nov 2015 #1
I'd bet! forest444 Nov 2015 #2
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