Colombia extradites former paramilitary warlord to the United States
Colombia extradites former paramilitary warlord to the United States
by Stephen Gill April 23, 2018
Colombia on Monday extradited the founder of the country’s largest illegal armed group, the AGC, to the United States on drug trafficking charges.
Daniel Rendon, who is better known as “Don Mario,” left Colombia in the early hours of the morning for New York where he will face trial.
Mario “left at 4AM heading to New York where he has two of the three indictments against him,” confirmed his lawyer in a press statement.
The former warlord was arrested in 2009 and serving a 20-year sentence for homicide, forced disappearance, torture, kidnapping, drug trafficking and forced displacement in a prison in the capital Bogota.
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3/1/2016 9:22:00 AM
Who are the cellmates of Santiago Uribe?
A former governor, a former paramilitary chief and three businessmen have been detained for a long time in the cells of the Prosecutor's Office.
Santiago Uribe, Álvaro Cruz, 'Don Mario' and Julio Gómez. ' Photo: WEEK
Santiago Uribe, that farmer and the former president's favorite brother, spent his first night in a cell in the prosecutor's bunker. He was transferred to the capital after being captured as part of a process for alleged support for paramilitarism.
There, in that judicial complex in the west of Bogotá, not only lives the random confinement that is felt when entering a semi-basement full of bars where little light enters, but at the same time draw a double uncomfortable situation.
On the one hand, the bitter accusations that accuse him of integrating the group known as the '12 Apostles' that acted in Antioquia, and on the other, having to share space with a former paramilitary leader who has pointed out several times.
It is Daniel Rendón Herrera, alias 'Don Mario', who has been held for a long time in the bunker of the Prosecutor's Office. The financial chief of the Centauros Bloc of the AUC has said that relations with Santiago Uribe were key to achieving the extension of paramilitary power in Antioquia.
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