Venezuelan authorities capture leader of Colombian drug gang 'Los Rastrojos'

[Judi Lynn]

Venezuelan authorities capture leader of Colombian drug gang 'Los Rastrojos'
Monday, 30 May 2011 16:32
Jim Glade

The Venezuelan government has confirmed the capture of a high level commander of the Colombian drug trafficking gang "Los Rastrojos," Caracol Radio reported Monday.

Ruberney Vergara Sanabria, alias "Maniquemao," was caught by Venezuelan authorities in the border region of Tachira.

According to authorities, Maniquemao is a leader of Los Rastrojos, which mainly controls the drug trade on the west coast of Colombia, but also has presence in one third of the country's 32 departments.

A report from 2009 by Colombian newspaper El Tiempo named Vergara on a list of enemies of the state and placed the reward for his capture at $550,000. At that time, he was reported as a leader of the neo-paramilitary organization "Aguilas Negras."

More:
http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/16628-venezuelan-authorities-capture-leader-of-colombian-drug-gang-los-rastrojos.html

[Peace Patriot]

1. Ha! They caught a leader of the fascist "Black Eagle" infiltrators in Venezuela!

This is the new "death squad" arm of Colombia's fascists and militarists.

I finally figured out what the accusations against Venezuela, by former president and crime boss of Colombia, Alvaro Uribe, were all about. He kept saying that Venezuela was "harboring" FARC guerrillas--even in his last two weeks in office, when the war he wanted against Venezuela could never be--but nobody believed him and the "evidence" was laughable. So why did he keep saying this? My "rule of thumb" for Bushwhacks was the key: Whatever they say, the opposite is true, and whatever they accuse others of doing, they are doing or planning to do.

I figured that Colombia's fascists must be infiltrating Venezuela and causing all those troubles in the border areas. That's where my Bushwhack "rule of thumb" leads: that the accusation about FARC guerrillas was COVER, and that the exact opposite of what Uribe was saying was true--it was fascist operatives, protected by the Colombian government and military, who were violating the border, intent on murder and mayhem in Venezuela. But at the time that I got at this truth, using the Bushwhack rule, the evidence of 'Black Eagles" in Venezuela hadn't surfaced yet. Then we got the first reports of it, recently. Now this. Venezuela has caught one of the main operatives!

Bushwhacks and their pals aren't just liars. They project their evil onto others as misdirection away from their own evil. It is a tactic of congenital liars and psychopaths. I figured Uribe for a psychopath when he stated publicly that "everybody who opposes" him is "a terrorist." He was meanwhile illegally spying on judges, prosecutors, political opponents, congress members, human rights groups, labor unions, academics, journalists and others. He was not only close to the Bushwhacks, and funded and empowered by them, he is just like them. You cannot trust a single thing that he says. And assuming that the opposite is true is the best way to get at the truth. It, at least, points you in the right direction, and sometimes hits a bull's eyes, as here.

[gbscar]

2. Venezuela is still big enough to "harbor" guerrillas and paramilitaries alike

Not that it means Chavez was actively allowing and promoting this in the manner Uribe and his lackeys were suggesting, but guerrilla warfare tends to cross borders out of both tactical and strategic necessity.

That Venezuela has also recently captured and deported a few guerrillas practically confirms such things do happen from time to time, even if the Colombian and U.S. governments may have intentionally exaggerated this for anti-Chavez political purposes. Therefore, I can't strictly follow or believe in your "rule of thumb" in the most literal sense, if that implies denying that even the most worst manipulations and distortions may have a small hint of truth behind them.

The fact remains, however, that capturing this death squad assassin is a welcome development.