Colombia dismantles drug trafficking network linked to El Mayo

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Colombian authorities dismantled a "Family Clan" that exported shipments of cocaine through speedboats to Panama, Costa Rica, Mexico and the United States.

The captures of nine members of the "Family Clan" were carried out by the Anti-narcotics Police in coordination with the Attorney General's Office and international agencies in the Colombian Pacific, the anti-drug institution reported. The coup that allowed dismantling "the criminal organization known as 'El Clan Familiar', was possible to the work of criminal investigation against that drug trafficking structure led by Iván Darío Valecilla Hurtado or 'Pali', who supposedly was the link in Colombia of 'El Mayo Zambada' leader of the 'Sinaloa' cartel.

This criminal structure "managed to seize nearly four tons of the alkaloid in different operations," said the report of the Antinarcotics Police. The information collected indicated that "El  'Pali' made direct coordination with 'El Mayo Zambada' and that it was in charge of financing the production of cocaine hydrochloride, as well as guaranteeing the shipment of this through 'Go Fast' type boats. 'And semi-submersible, bound for Mexico and the United States. "