Available at: https://www.sptimes.com/2005/01/03/Worldandnation/Danilo_s_war.shtmlThe DEA boss in Colombia at the time, Joe Toft, went further.Aware that there would be retaliation from the Galeano and Moncada clans, Escobar dispatched sicarios to wipe out any threats from either family. González was the prototypical bureaucratic elite — a career officer who worked the government’s most important cases giving him access to huge amounts of resources, connections to politicians and international law enforcement. [75] El Espectador, “General Santoyo hacía parte de la nómina de la Oficina de Envigado: ‘Gordo Lindo’,” 19 July 2013. In August 2000, his men murdered the head of La Terraza, Elkin Sanchez Mena, alias “El Negro.” La Terraza responded by killing Berna’s brother, Rodolfo, the man who allegedly killed Escobar on that Medellín rooftop. He pleaded guilty rather than give up his associates and collaborators.

A decade later, the family would form the core of a nationwide, right wing paramilitary movement.González was to become the key contact with the PEPES, most particularly Berna but also Carlos Castaño. Moncada Family April 16, 2010. Available at: https://www.semana.com/nacion/articulo/general-montoya-llamado-version-libre-operacion-orion/250813-3[123] InSight Crime interview with Luis Fernando Quijano, Director of the Medellín NGO Corpades, former militia member and longtime Medellín security analyst, Medellín, 2 July 2013.But Berna was not done yet. Their ties to illegal activities, even drug trafficking, deepened,“Nothing happened in that city [Medellín] without Berna or the Oficina de Envigado giving the blessing,” Feistl told InSight Crime. Available: https://www.eltiempo.com/archivo/documento/CMS-12144489Coordination reportedly started well before the operation.

In the cocaine world, where the stakes are high and loyalties fragile, the regulator needed to be utterly ruthless and totally reliable. He became the priority target of the Search Bloc which, according to official reports, cornered him on a mountainside above Medellín and killed him in a shootout. Nearly eight months after the wiretaps were installed, the conversations on the phones suddenly changed.

The only man who accompanied him, alias El Limon, shouted: ‘El Patron, they have found us’ and ran out the back door of the residence. Available at: https://www.eltiempo.com/archivo/documento/CMS-5509827 This has been echoed by other underworld sources, including Norte del Valle Cartel member Hernando Gómez, alias “Rasguño,” and former AUC commander Salvatore Mancuso.Berna’s relationship with these elites began during the hunt for Pablo Escobar. c. 1953 - Unknown In 1985, Escobar — interested in the destruction of files and the intimidation of the country’s Supreme Court — was believed to have backed the M-19 left-wing rebel group’s attack on the Palace of Justice.

Punishment for failing to pay one’s debts, however small, ranged from having one’s fingers amputated to being shot dead in the street.“He called me,” Berna later testified. When the left-wing militias were expelled from Medellín, it was not the state that occupied the power vacuum, but Berna, and the Comuna 13 became one of the strongholds of the Oficina de Envigado. It transformed itself under the leadership of Berna, and evolved into the most sophisticated organized crime syndicate in Colombia, perhaps the most sophisticated in all of Latin America. Yet his allying himself with the paramilitaries against the Marxist rebels was another turning point in his criminal career. “With total calm, that filled me with terror, he said: ‘This is an economic coup. 1.8%

The average age of a Moncada family member is 65.9 years old according to our database “There were shots in the air and shouts of ‘Viva Colombia!’ He asked me to leave because the press was coming and it would not be convenient if they saw me there.”The PEPES became so effective, so quickly, that other members of the Medellín Cartel either turned themselves in to authorities, feeling they would be safer in prison, or lined up to cooperate with Berna and his colleagues.

Through their positions in the government, security forces or the judicial hierarchy, they are able to influence civil society, shape policy and carry out operations that directly impact everyday life. Berna himself testified as much.

Apr 23, 1931 - Aug 30, 2006 Catacamas is the largest municipality in Central America, home to thousands of square kilometers of pristine forest. The most Moncada families were found in the USA in 1920. The SSDI is a searchable database of more than 70 million names. [9] James Mollison, “The Memory of Pablo Escobar,” (Chris Boot, 2007), p.

“And if it did happen without their consent or approval, those people paid the price for it. If you want to work with me, I will respect your life. That strategy has been described by analysts such as Morales and La Rotta, as opportunistic and ruthless. UU.,” 20 August 2012. During his time as head of GAULA, he worked closely with politicians across the country, among them then Antioquia Governor and future Colombian President Alvaro Uribe. A short lifespan might also indicate health problems that were once prevalent in your family. It operated here in the comunas (poor neighborhoods). c. 1961 - Unknown 3,027 birth records Pablo was running across the roof when my brother came to the window, took aim and shot him in the head with his 5.56 M-16 rifle.

Moncada [14] Jeremy McDermott interview with Carlos Castaño, in northern Antioquia, 1 August 2001.The result, as was illustrated, was a plethora of allies amongst the bureaucratic elites. Guillem-Ramon Ii De Moncade Seigneur De De Moncada Tortosa, Seigneur De Tortosa