Major Drug Traffickers Killed and Captured

May 2008 | Ratings Update

In a major coup for President Álvaro Uribe, Colombian authorities in the space of a week have killed Victor Manuel Munera, and captured his brother Miguel Angel Mejia Munera. With the latter facingf extradition to the US, the brothers emerged as a powerful force in the late 1990s, joining the right-wing paramilitary group Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC) in the early 2000s. Despite a peace deal with the government offering reduced sentences, they did not turn themselves in. That the government moved against such actors of the right wing when it is embroiled in the 'parapolitics' scandal suggests integrity in

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