Colombia's most hunted kokainkung was shot dead by snipers

Police managed to find kokainkungens hideout after a failed operation in september, when the Guacho survived thanks to his bulletproof vest. After the police have been working to pay informants who live in rural areas, where the world's largest kokafält spreads out. On Friday abandoned Guacho their security procedures and a sniper, who waited on him in weeks, shot him with a shot.

– Guacho was one of our country's most brutal criminals, " said the president.

The 29-year-old kokainkungen ruled over the world's most lucrative kokafält located on the border between Colombia and Ecuador. He was responsible for exporting tons of cocaine into speedboats along the coast of the Pacific ocean to the cartels in Mexico.

he was forced to join in Farcgerillan and became one of the group sprängmedelsexperter. When Farcgerillans leaders agreed to lay down their arms and sign the peace agreement with the government two years ago chose Guacho to leave the guerrillas. He started his own guerrilla group, which consisted of about 180 men and women. Since then he has led a reign of terror in the state of Nariño, and forced so many kokabönder as possible to work for him.

For a little more than a year ago saw the outbreak of the first languages other than English between his private army and the police. The police had come to snatch up kokaplantor and Guachos men responded by firing ruthlessly across the fields. It led to six kokabönder were killed. A few months later went a reportageteam from Ecuador's largest daily newspaper delivered to the region to write about Colombia new kokainkung. It ended up that they were kidnapped by Guacho and executed when the military came near in the search for them.

Guacho is also behind the slaying of three people from the Colombian public prosecutor's office, six soldiers from the ecuadorian navy and a couple on the trip from Ecuador. The neighbouring country received the news with joy, but the parents of the killed journalists regretted that the Guacho had been killed. They would have preferred that he had been taken alive so that the families could get to know exactly what happened with their sons.

increases in the world and it is only Colombia, Peru and Bolivia that has the right weather conditions for large-scale production. It makes to rural areas in these countries are controlled by criminal gangs bribing their way in order to be able to get his dominion. Colombian president Ivan Duque has said that he intends to put hard against hard and promised to increase funding for the military. That the police managed to kill the country's most wanted criminal a few days before christmas was a christmas present to him.

Also kokainkungens other man, who went under the name Pitufo, was killed in connection with the operation. To get the gang's leader, near, the police had bugged the 120 mobiltelefonlinjer and paid 15 informants. Overall, the 3,000 military personnel involved in the jagandet after Guacho in the state of Nariño during the past year.