The Leones' Revenge - How an Extortion Attempt Went Badly Wrong in Guatemala EXTORTION / 25 MAY 2021
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25 MAY 2021 BY CHRIS DALBY
A settling of scores in Guatemala left at least eight people dead after the son of a long-dead druglord took revenge for the assassination of his wife, again proving how being locked up is no barrier.
On May 19, seven inmates were killed, most of them beheaded amid a riot at the Cantel prison in the western city of Quetzaltenango, the Attorney General’s Office announced on Twitter.
According to police sources cited by the Guatemalan press, the riot and the murders were organized by Carlos Roberto León Barillas, a former member of the Leones drug trafficking clan, in retaliation for his wife’s murder.
Earlier on May 19, Anais del Carmen Gamboa, a Venezuelan national and wife of León Barillas, was shot dead by two men on a motorcycle while driving her car in Guatemala City.
The murdered prisoners had reportedly tried to extort León Barillas, threatening to have his wife killed unless he paid them 20,000 quetzales (around $250). They appear to have followed through on their threat.
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