Alias ​​’Máscara’, paramilitary chief in Santa Marta, captured

For his section, the commander of the Santa Marta Metropolitan Police, Colonel Jorge Bernal, instructed journalists that Hidalgo’s arrest was once completed after an investigation that lasted months.

“After an exhaustive investigation, the function of this ‘bandit’ inside the felony group was once established. After all, the Drug Enforcement Management (DEA) supplied the site in actual time, which allowed the operation that culminated in his seize to be performed,” mentioned Colonel Bernal.

The detainee is sought after via the USA for the crimes of conspiracy to dedicate crimes and drug trafficking, amongst others.

The Self-Protection Forces of the Conquistadores of the Sierra Nevada, often referred to as Los Pachenca, had been born from the demobilization of the paramilitary United Self-Protection Forces of Colombia (AUC), the crowd attributed with probably the most homicides all over the armed struggle.

This gang operates principally within the division of Magdalena, having its base within the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, from the place it directs drug trafficking and extortion networks on this vacationer space.

Remaining August, the Colombian executive licensed the outlet of a “area for socio-legal dialog” with the ACSN paramilitaries, which has now not but been formally inaugurated and whose executive representatives can be Óscar Mauricio Silva Osorio, who will act as coordinator, and can be accompanied via Marcela Bustamante Morón and Ricardo Ernesto Villa Sánchez.

This would be the 5th area for socio-legal dialog – a class that the ‘overall peace’ legislation offers to approaches with teams that should not have political popularity – after the ones initiated with the gangs of Buenaventura, Quibdó and Valle de Aburrá and the only additionally licensed however now not began with the Extended family del Golfo, the principle felony gang within the nation.