Bolivia captures fugitive cousin of AUC leader

[Judi Lynn]

Bolivia captures fugitive cousin of AUC leader
Wednesday, 29 June 2011 09:43
Sarah Cast

Bolivian police will immediately hand over the cousin and confidante of the paramilitary leader "Martin Llanos" to Colombian authorities for prosecution for terrorism and drug trafficking, reported El Espectador Wednesday.

Following months of coordination with the Colombian state, Bolivian police arrested Carlos Noel Buitrago Vega, alias “Porremacho,” Tuesday in the eastern Bolivian department of Santa Cruz.

The cousin of the detainee, Hector German Buitrago Parada, alias “Marin Llanos,” was the leader of the Peasant Self Defense Forces of Casanare (ACC), a faction of the Colombian umbrella paramilitary organization AUC. An internal AUC war in 2004 virtually destroyed the ACC, but Martin Llanos never demobilized in the government's peace process and is believed to still be active in the central eastern Casanare region.

Like his cousin, Porremacho is allegedly heavily involved criminal activity. The Bolivian minister of the interior referred to Porremacho as the “big fish” of drug trafficking.

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