Venezuela: Colombian far-right paramilitary warlord arrested

[Judi Lynn]

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Venezuela: Colombian far-right paramilitary warlord arrested
Feb 7 2012

Venezuela said it has arrested on murder and drug trafficking charges the last major Colombian far-right paramilitary warlord still at large.

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He said Llanos, whose given name is Hector Buitrago, and brother Nelson Buitrago, known as Caballo, would be delivered immediately to Colombian authorities.

Llanos unleashed a bloody war against rivals in 2003 in Colombia’s eastern plains in which about 1,000 combatants were killed and hundreds displaced.

Nelson Buitrago was convicted in absentia in the 1997 massacre of 11 judicial investigators.

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/latest-world-news/2012/02/07/venezuela-colombian-far-right-paramilitary-warlord-arrested-91466-30281390/

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Senior AUC commander 'Martin Llanos' arrested in Venezuela
Monday, 06 February 2012 17:45
Adriaan Alsema

Venezuela has arrested one of Colombia's most wanted fugutive drug lords and senior commander of paramilitary organization AUC, "Martin Llanos," together with his brother, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos confirmed Monday.

According to the newspaper, Llanos, whose real name is Hector Buitrago, was arrested only hours after Venezuelan authorities announced the arrest of the former AUC commander's younger brother, alias "Caballo."

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The family of Martin Llanos were commanders and founding members of paramilitary group the ACC, a group of the now-demobilized paramilitary umbrella organization AUC. The family refused to participate in the Colombian government's demobilization process, in which some paramilitaries were offered lesser sentences for voluntarily disbanding.

The father and a cousin of Martin Llanos were captured since the AUC demobilization, while the ex-AUC commander continued to control drug and arms trafficking routes from Colombia's eastern plains to Venezuela competing with other groups like the FARC, ELN and ERPAC.

http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/22052-martin-llanos-arrested-with-brother-venezuela.html

[Peace Patriot]

1. Interesting how good Venezuela has gotten at finding and arresting drug lords...

...since it jettisoned the corrupt, failed, murderous U.S. "war on drugs."

I think that the Bush Junta in particular was foiling honest efforts to get the real bad guys because they themselves were/are the biggest bad guys of all--the upper echelon mafia that smoothes the way for those who cooperate with them, and who may be the biggest cocaine profiteers.

We've had similar news stories in Bolivia, where government forces are finally able to get at the serious criminal operations, since they threw the U.S. ambassador and the DEA out of the country (in 2008).

Some day, somebody's going to put this all together--the connections between the Bush Junta and the cocaine trade in Latin America, and the associated murder and mayhem that is their preferred milieu. This could be sooner rather than later, given the on-going investigations of Bush Jr pal, Alvaro Uribe, in Colombia. One can hope, anyway, that the utter evil of the Bush Junta, at it has manifested in Latin America, will at last be exposed. I don't think that the Obama administration is dirty in this way but I think that they are covering it up (--and there may well still be elements in the DEA, the FBI, the CIA, the Pentagon and other agencies who are filthy Bushwhacks and over whom Obama has little or no control). (Obama's horrible policy on the "war on drugs" is about hypocrisy and war profiteers, not overt crime, whereas the Bushwhacks were/are outright criminals using all the resources of government to aid and profit from crime. They flipped the U.S. "war on drugs" right over into a war FOR drugs and used it to consolidate the cocaine trade into fewer hands and to better direct its trillion+ dollar revenue stream to themselves and other beneficiaries. This is what Uribe was doing with the Colombian government; and I think that that dreadful process--the mafia in charge of the government--was a replication of what his mentors in the Bush Junta were doing.)

[COLGATE4]

2. More likely they just hand over the low-hanging fruit

while protecting FARC.