On October 30, 2011, Bogotá elected Gustavo Petro as its next mayor. After earning a plurality of 32 percent of the vote in a highly contested election, Petro—a former member of the leftist M19 guerilla movement—made history as the first ex-guerilla to have won this post. During that same week, the Colombian government arguably achieved its greatest victory against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) by killing its top leader Guillermo León Sáenz, otherwise known as ‘Alfonso...
Mediante tácticas aéreas y terrestres, son las fuerzas armadas de América Latina quienes llevan adelante la guerra contra el narcotráfico en cada país de la región. El 15 de octubre de 2011, LatinNews informó sobre el ejército mexicano y su detención de Alfredo Alemán Narváez, alias el Comandante Alemán, jefe en San Luis Potosí de la organización de narcotráfico Los Zetas. Posteriormente, el 4 de noviembre de 2011, también llegaron noticias al ser abatido...
Through employing both air and land tactics, Latin America’s armed forces have driven the region’s war on drugs within their respective countries. On October 15, Latin News reported on the enthusiasm displayed by the Mexican military upon capturing Alfredo ‘El Comandante’ Alemán Narváez, the leader of the San Luis Potosí branch of Los Zetas drug cartel. Then, on November 4, similar feelings were expressed after the Colombian armed forces captured and killed Alfonso Cano,...
On November 4, 2011, the Colombian military launched a successful raid that resulted in the death of the commander-in-chief of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), Guillermo León Sáenz Vargas, better known as Alfonso Cano. Responding to the death of the leftist group’s leader, Colombian president Juan Manual Santos asserted that the FARC’s “leadership will come down like a house of cards.” Despite this optimistic declaration, the FARC’s leadership might prove to be...
