Ferrari Mailing List: Fwd: Montoya

[red5hilser (red5hilser]

Hey cLyDe: That was a well thought out observation. By your brilliant thinking, 
do all people with the last name of Romero have links with the infamous?Night 
Stalker, Richard Romero? My heart goes out to you in your obvious time of need.

Yer pal, Shitbox Bubba

-----Original Message-----
From: clyde romero <clyderomero [at] worldnet.att.net>
To: willi <red5hilser [at] aol.com>
Cc: The FerrariList <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Sent: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 9:03 pm
Subject: [Ferrari] Montoya



Ya see I told ya Montoya was Drug connected!

 

 

Diego Montoya, who sits with Osama bin Laden on the FBI's 10 most-wanted
list and has a $5 million bounty on his head, allegedly leads the Norte del
Valle cartel. It is deemed Colombia's most dangerous drug gang and is
accused of shipping hundreds of tons of cocaine to the U.S.

Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos told a news conference at Bogota's
airport that Montoya was responsible for 1,500 killings in his career.

"Drug traffickers take note: This is the future that awaits you," Santos
said before Montoya limped out of an air force plane wearing plastic
handcuffs and escorted by five commandos.

Montoya put up no resistance when the army finally cornered him in the
cartel's stronghold of Valle del Cauca state on the Pacific Coast, officials
said. He is to be questioned before being extradited to the U.S., a process
that Santos said would take at least two months.


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After months of planning, elite commandos raided the small farm before dawn
Monday and nabbed Montoya along with an uncle and three other cartel
members, authorities said.

The government has been closing in on the cartel since last year, when
soldiers killed eight members of a private militia believed to be protecting
Montoya. But a wide network of cartel informants had frustrated the search
for the alleged drug boss himself. Local media have recently carried stories
on the cartel's alleged infiltration of Colombia's army and navy.

Better known as "Don Diego," Montoya is said to be in a bitter turf war with
his cartel's other leader, Wilber Varela, who goes by the nickname "Jabon,"
or "Soap," and is reported to be living in Venezuela. Hundreds have died in
fighting between their rival armed bands along Colombia's Pacific coast.

A U.S. indictment unsealed in 2004 against Montoya and Varela said that over
the previous 14 years, their cartel had exported more than 1.2 million
pounds _ 600 tons _ of cocaine worth more than $10 billion from Colombia to
Mexico and ultimately to the United States for resale.

Colombia's government has made major gains against the cartel this year.

Montoya's brother, Eugenio Montoya, was captured in January. Former cartel
leader Luis Hernando Gomez Bustamante, known as "Rasguno" or "Scratchy," was
extradited to the U.S. in July after pledging to cooperate with U.S.
authorities. The gang's alleged money-laundering chief, Juan Carlos Ramirez
Abadia, known as "Chupeta" or "Lollipop," was arrested last month in Brazil.

Colombia is the source of 90 percent of the cocaine entering the United
States. Supply has remained robust despite record extraditions to the U.S.
and eradication of coca crops. And despite Montoya's capture, recent history
indicates it probably won't take long for someone to take his place.

The Norte del Valle cartel rose in the mid-1990s from the ashes of the once
dominant Medellin and Cali gangs, paying for drugs and protection from both
far-right paramilitaries and leftist rebels. The latter two forces have
squeezed the drug gangs out of much of Colombia's countryside and finance
their armed struggle by selling drugs to the new criminal groups.

The United States is funneling more than $700 million a year to Colombia in
anti-narcotics and military aid.

Since taking office in 2002, President Alvaro Uribe, a key U.S. ally in
Latin America, has approved the extradition of more than 540 Colombians to
the United States, the majority on drug-trafficking charges.

Most of those extradited are thought to be low or midlevel drug traffickers.
High-profile extraditions included Gilberto and Miguel Rodriguez Orejuela,
brothers who helped found the Cali cartel.

Montoya's group appeared to learn from the successes and failures of the
earlier cartels.

Escobar and the Rodriguez Orejuela brothers seemed to relish the limelight
that eventually brought them down. The newer generation of traffickers
sought a lower profile, and they wielded unrestrained violence at the
slightest provocation.

Victor Patino, one high-ranking Norte del Valle cartel member who decided to
testify in the U.S., saw at least 35 family members and friends slaughtered
in retaliation for his betrayal.

 

 

 

 

 

Clyde

 

C.Romero [at] ALPA.ORG

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