Paramilitary chief evicted from Venezuela
Venezuelan authorities deported Thursday to Colombia Jerson Álvarez Dueñas, identified as the
commander of ultra-rightwing paramilitary front "Águilas Negras" (Black Eagles) and the kingpin of drug and kidnapping cartels operating globally.Álvarez Dueñas "lived in San Carlos, northeastern Cojedes state, where he used ranches to store drugs, which would be shipped to Europe and North America," Minister of the Interior and Justice told reporters. No further details were provided about his capture.
The deportee, wanted by Interpol, led drug-traffic gangs and other groups involved in bribery and kidnapping, Efe reported.
In addition, Carreño noted, Álvarez Dueñas "became the commander of paramilitary front 'Águilas Negras' following the detention of Rodrigo Tovar, alias Jorge 40, the leader of demobilized Colombia's United Self-Defense (AUC).
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http://english.eluniversal.com/2007/06/14/en_pol_art_paramilitary-chief-e_14A885207.shtml(Venezuelan opposition newspaper)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~Google translation from a Venezuelan newspaper:
Deported paramilitary Gerson Alvarez to Colombia
ABN 14/06/2007
Caracas, 14 Jun. ABN. - The Colombian citizen Gerson Alvarez Owners, presumed narcotics trafficker and commander of the paramilitary group Black Eagles, was deported to east Colombia Thursday, therefore the holder informed into the Ministry of the Popular Power for the Inner Relations and Justicia (MIJ), Pedro Carreño.
From the seat of the Direction of the Intelligence services and Prevention (Disip), where Carreño is carried out the first Factory of Formation of Moral Brigadistas and Lights of the MIJ, needed that “the deported citizen, that lived in San Carlos, Cojedes state, used the properties for drug storage and later he sent it to Europe and North America”.
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He detailed that Alvarez Owners, “with the organized bands that he had in the Venezuelan State, not only worked with the drug trafficking, but also with the cattle rustling, the extorsion and the kidnapping”.
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