The Colombian and US authorities are dismantling an organization operating in La Guajira, in the far north of Colombia, and associated with the Sinaloa cartel. on Tuesday, Colombian police said he had smuggled more than 90 tons of cocaine since 2021.

“According to the evidence, this organization has been involved in more than 30 drug deals in Central America and the United States in the past two and a half years in the amount of $1.8 billion,” the general said. Director of the National Police, General William René Salamanca Ramirez.

During Operation New Horizon, conducted by the police in cooperation with the Colombian Navy, prosecutors and US authorities, the organization’s alleged top leader, Edicto Segundo Castañeda Hernández, known as “Operation New Horizon”, was arrested in Uribia. (La Guajira). Condor”.

This kapo used Wayuunaiki, the language of the area’s indigenous Wayuu people, to communicate and went unnoticed, but the police were able to determine that he ran “a powerful criminal organization with tentacles along with the Mexican Sinaloa Cartel, led by Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada Garcia,” the statement said.

The organization used the Rancherii, the Wayu villages, to collect drugs that were shipped from Catatumbo to the southeast, following the Venezuelan border, towards Alta Guajira, “using trails (roads) from Colombia and Venezuela and the waters of Coquivacoa Bay , or using 350 trucks or speedboats.”