Drug traffickers shut down Caribbean coastal towns after police kill boss
Drug traffickers shut down Caribbean coastal towns after police kill boss
by Adriaan Alsema June 18, 2019
Shops in villages around the Caribbean town of Santa Marta remained closed on Tuesday after local narcos shut down the area in retaliation of the killing of their leader.
The Pachenca gang, which controls much of the city and surrounding area, distributed a pamphlet on Monday in which they said “we don’t want to see any business, shop or restaurant open” for three days in response to the death of “Chucho Mercancia.”
“Anyone who goes outside is a military objective, including mototaxi drivers, students and street vendors. We will show who’s the boss,” the threat said.
Local police denied the veracity of the death threat, while admitting that the pamphlet seeks to sow terror “in reaction to the neutralization of alias ‘Chucho Mercancia’ and one of his lieutenants,” reported W Radio.
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https://colombiareports.com/drug-traffickers-shut-down-caribbean-coast-towns-after-police-kill-boss/
Google translation:
'Chucho Merchandise' handled 80% of drug trafficking routes in Magdalena and La Guajira: Police
Jesús María Aguirre Gallego, known as 'Chucho Merchandise ', leader of 'Los Pachenca' and considered a high value target for the Public Force, managed 80 percent of the drug trafficking routes in the Sierra Nevada, from La Guajira to the Magdalena department, confirmed the National Police.
The operation in which the dangerous offender was killed took place in the village of Guachaca, rural area of Santa Marta and in the vicinity of the Sierra Nevada, where the uniformed came after intelligence and criminal investigation work carried out by the Antinarcotics Directorate. There, another alleged member of the structure, which is in the process of being identified, was also neutralized.
'Chucho Merchandise', 45, was requested by a Court in Dallas (Texas), United States, for the crime of drug trafficking.
At present, under the command of 'Los Pachenca', it was also related to multiple homicides registered in that region of the country, extortion and forced displacement.
Likewise, 'Chucho Merchandise' exercised criminal control over some banana producing farms and sent cocaine hydrochloride abroad.
This organization maintains territorial disputes with the structure called 'Los Santa'.
At the same time, it maintained criminal alliances with the criminal structure led by the subject known as ' Nacho Pana', who offenses in Dibulla, Riohacha, Manaure and Uribia, in La Guajira, for the collection, shipment and trafficking of narcotics, through the modality of speedboats or Go-fast.
In his criminal trajectory he was part of the 'Tayrona Resistance Block' of the extinct self-defense groups under the command of Hernán Giraldo.
Later, he joined the criminal structure of the Mejía Múnera brothers, known as ' Los Nevados', where he coordinated drug trafficking activities.
The Office of the Attorney General of the Nation required it for the crimes of manufacture, trafficking and carrying of firearms, aggravated homicide, conspiracy to commit a crime, drug trafficking and extortion.
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Nephew of expara Hernán Giraldo died along with 'Chucho' Merchandise
JUN 17 2019 03:37 PM
Mario Giraldo, nephew of former paramilitary Hernán Giraldo Serna, died in the operation against the head of the band 'Los Pachenca' Jesús María Aguirre Gallego aka Chucho Merchandise.
The police indicated that Giraldo was meeting with Aguirre Giraldo in the house against which the operation was deployed in the rural area of Santa Marta.
The objective of this was the leader of the gang appointed to handle drug shipments and order crimes in the region.
In the past, 'Chucho Merchandise' was part of the 'Tayrona Resistance Block', led by the ex-paramilitary Hernán Giraldo, extradited to the United States. Of there the nexus with the nephew of Giraldo, with who was reunited.
The leader of the band continued to dominate the area in which Hernán Giraldo was present before his demobilization and maintained control over former members of the Self-Defense Groups who continued to commit crimes in the region.
Hernán Giraldo Ochoa, son of Hernán Giraldo Serna, had already fallen in the area, and it was noted that other members of the clan had maintained their ties with illegal businesses.
Several of them were part of the criminal gang of the Mejía Múnera brothers, known as 'Los Nevados', who was involved in drug trafficking activities. In it was also 'Chucho Mercancia'.
https://primeronoticias.com.co/2019/06/17/sobrino-de-expara-hernan-giraldo-murio-junto-a-chucho-mercancia/
Uncle of Chucho's comrade:
Hernán Giraldo Serna (born August 16, 1948), also known as the "Lord of the Sierra", is the leader of the Colombian paramilitary organization Tayrona Resistance Block, a 1,166-member armed group, part of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia. Colombian prosecutors have labeled Giraldo “the biggest sexual predator of paramilitarism”.[1] In the Justice and Peace process, he accepted responsibility for 35 acts of gender-based violence — some committed by his subordinates — including the rape of 11 girls under age 14. He has been accused of sexually abusing a girl as young as 9 years of age.[2][3] A Colombian court sentenced him to 20 years in prison for his role in the massacre of 20 workers; he was tried in absentia. He is also suspected in the murder of two narcotics agents and in the killings of Kankuamo Indians as part of his war against Marxist rebels, and the abduction of Colombian senator Jose Gnecco.[4][5]
On February 2, 2006, he signed a peace deal with the Colombian government and demobilized his armed faction.[6] He is expected to serve a prison time of 5 to 8 years, if he complies with the terms of the agreement. There are also outstanding warrants for his arrest in the United States for his role in the cocaine trade, but it is expected that part of his peace deal includes an implicit no-extradition pledge, as long as he doesn't violate any of agreement's terms. Hernan is one of the 14 criminals that have been extradited to the United States.[2] According to U.S. DEA website, Hernan "pleaded guilty in 2009 to one count of conspiracy to distribute cocaine knowing and intending that it would be imported into the United States." However the website indicates he was not sentenced until Friday, March 3, 2017. He was sentenced to "198 months" (16.5 years) in prison.[7]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hern%C3%A1n_Giraldo
