Blog #5 Colombia’s Most Wanted Drug Lord “Don Mario” was Captured

Daniel Rendon or better known as “Don Mario” was the most wanted drug lord in the country of Colombia. It is known that Rendon commanded a private army with hundreds of soldiers who have shipped about 100 tons of cocaine to the United States. The president of Colombia Alvaro Uribe described Rendon as a 43 year old man, and “one of the most feared drug traffickers in the world” is believed to have committed about 3,000 murders in the last 18 months in which a lot of them have happened in territory battles among other drug lords. It is also known that Rendon was working closely with the Mexican traffickers to have better routs of smuggling drugs in other countries specially United States. Rendon was found “like a dog under a palm tree” according to President Uribe. When Rendon was captured he was living like a dog hiding, in the jungle. It took many months of patient planning and intelligence work in this high risk operation. The reason was because Rendon was known to be a high risk person, who killed without compassion, who did not care what he did in order to obtain more control or to protect himself. Prior to this fantastic operation, there was an operation that failed because Rendon had hired people to kill any cop getting close to him, and that person would he a reward of 1,000 dollars for every police officer. This time Rendon was alone and he was easy target.

Colombia’s way of combating organized and the way their operations are being handle is great. The captured of one of the most fearful drug lords in this country is a huge deal because this is showing other drug lords that soon they will be captured. On the other hand, drugs is a business and like any other business if the main boss dies or something happens to him/her another one will substitute. In this case since Rendon was captured soon there will be another person replacing him who will control Rendons territory. But the Colombian government is hoping to capture many drug lords to decrease the drug trafficking coming out Colombia.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/15/don-mario-colombians-most%1f_n_187247.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZnsud9B4bw