The trafficking ring was dismantled in 2011, but by that time Varon had already returned to Colombia to seek his revenge. Luis Calle Serna took control of the cartel once he ended the existence of his boss Wilber Varela. Men like Orlando Henao Montoya AKA The man in the overall and Luis Hernando Gómez AKA Rasguño began with Dracula, who died at the hands of a band called Los Cañaverales. After Orlando Henao’s death, the unity of command necessary for it to work in a coordinated manner disappeared. A not inconsiderable inheritance. However, they still controlled local criminal networks and lucrative Pacific coast drug trafficking routes, which they turned over to the Urabeños in return for money, weapons, and manpower. In May 1996, Nicol Parra, one of the best hitmen in the service of the people of Cali, was murdered. In one corner, Diego Montoya Sánchez AKA Don Diego with an armed group called “Los Machos” and in the other, Wilber Varela, AKA Jabón who commanded “Los Rastrojos”. All served to start the orgy of destruction and death that ended the existence of no less than 2,000 people. Stay with me so you can learn its whole story. On his release and return to Colombia, Patiño sought to reestablish himself in the Colombian underworld. We encourage readers to copy and distribute our work for non-commercial purposes, with attribution to InSight Crime in the byline and links to the original at both the top and bottom of the article. The bitter vendetta that split Colombia’s Norte Del Valle Cartel has now claimed its third generation of victims, and continues to play out as the Rastrojos battle the Urabeños. Under the direction of the Calle Serna brothers, the Rastrojos began to expand rapidly across the country, becoming arguably Colombia’s most powerful drug trafficking organization. The colossal fortune and boldness of the group of bosses was not enough to contain the harassment and get rid of the long arm of justice that caught some of them alive and today they have served or are serving heavy sentences in jails in the United States and Colombia. In 2004, four additional captures occurred of Norte del Valle hierarchy. We go into the field to interview, report and investigate. The North Valley cartel (Spanish: Norte del Valle cartel) was a Colombian drug cartel which operated primarily in the Valle del Cauca department of Colombia. Drug cartel based in southern Colombia, around the city of Cali and the Valle del Cauca Department. We have revamped the site to create a better display and reader experience. Whether he can also survive the cycle of betrayal and vengeance that has consumed these once powerful criminal armies remains to be seen. Nevertheless the violence continues. The demand remained unsatisfied and someone had to continue the task of maintaining the clientele. Gulf Cartel. They all thought they could do better than the others, so in a very short time the cartel split into two factions with their own commanders and army. Orlando Henao Montoya was … Certainly, the authorities of those countries, with the cooperation of others, succeeded in dismantling those criminal organizations, but the need to consume alkaloids remained and many routes remained alive. During it's early stages, the cartel was led by Amado Carrillo Fuentes and Rafael Aguilar Guajardo; and trafficked cocaine for the Cali cartel and later the Norte del Valle cartel. On the other, was Wilber Varela, alias “Jabon,” and his armed wing — the Rastrojos. However, the rivals’ contrasting fortunes did little to quell the bad blood between them and despite his weakened position, Urdinola began to assemble a coalition to confront the Rastrojos. North of the Valley and Cali never had the best of relationships. Such was the volume of white powder that it went out into the consumer markets that it was almost impossible for law enforcement to discover them all. Le cartel de Norte del Valle (en espagnol : Cártel del Norte del Valle), ou cartel de la vallée du Nord, était un cartel de la drogue qui opérait principalement dans le nord du département de la Valle del Cauca en Colombie, notamment dans la ville côtière de Buenaventura.. Historique. Orlando Henao Montoya (died 13 November 1998) was a leader of the Norte del Valle Cartel of Colombia. The show accurately points out that many of the founders of the Norte del Valle cartel were former police officers. Among the most powerful cartels in Colombian history are those of Medellín and Cali, but ¿did you know there was another cartel as powerful as these two called the North Valley Cartel? The cartel was created in 1989 when smugglers of the Juárez plaza, founded by Pablo Acosta, left the Guadalajara cartel. In May 2012, the most powerful of the Rastrojo’s leaders, Javier Antonio Calle Serna, turned himself in to the US authorities. According to former AUC commander “El Aleman,” the AUC supported the 1998 election of former President Andres Pastrana. Il Cartello di Norte del Valle è stata un'associazione criminale non più attiva nel campo del traffico di stupefacenti che operava principalmente a nord del Dipartimento di Valle del Cauca, in Colombia.Ha assunto rilevanza soprattutto dopo la seconda metà degli anni '90 a causa della frammentazione degli altri due grandi cartelli colombiani, il cartello di Medellín e il cartello di Cali. Formed in the 1980s, the cartel during it's initial years worked under the suzerainty of the much powerful Cali cartel. Das Norte-del-Valle-Kartell (NDVC[1]) war ein kolumbianisches Drogenkartell aus dem nördlichen Valle del Cauca. By 2002, the two groups were openly at war after Varela ordered the hit of one of Montoya’s allies, who, unknown to Montoya, was collaborating with the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Varon’s history remains murky, as tales of his underworld exploits often merge with those of his father, who passed on his alias of Martin Bala to his son. Control of the Rastrojos fell to Varela’s murderers — the Calle Serna brothers, known as Los Comba — and their ally Diego Perez Henao, alias “Diego Rastrojo,” a former Montoya associate who defected after the pair fell out. Experts estimate that the North Valley Cartel exported more than 500 tons of cocaine a month to the United States and accused them of establishing strategic alliances with the armed group known as the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, which was on the U.S. government’s list of organizations classified as terrorist. Its founders were the Rodríguez Orejuela brothers, Gilberto and Miguel, and José Santacruz Londoño, also known as "Chepe". Get fresh updates on organized crime from across the region delivered to your inbox. He took for himself the 1,300 kilometers of Colombia’s Pacific coast, sparsely guarded jungles and rivers, contacts with the Sinaloa cartel to obtain cooperation to introduce drugs into the much sought-after U.S. market, an army of 1,200 men who worked in coordination with armed groups with different ideologically oriented political objectives such as the National Liberation Army and the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia to guard some 21,000 hectares planted with coca and poppy plants, plus his entry on the DEA’s most wanted list. The most extensive database on organized crime in the Americas. However, it is known that Varon fled to Spain after an attempt on his life by the Rastrojos in 2005. Welcome to our new home page. The brains of the industry were in the custody of the authorities or had been shot down in the face of relentless persecution, leaving the business in the hands of the North Valley Cartel. The hegemony came to an end, as a result of the determination of the Colombian State and the Sheriff’s complex, in search of justice so proper to the American way of being. After the fall of the leaders of Cali, the North Valley would seize the opportunity to become the new kings of the city. Wílber Varela, alias Jabón, llegó a convertirse en el jefe del Cartel del Norte del Valle, uno de los grupos mafiosos más poderosos y sanguinarios de la historia del narcotráfico en Colombia. In 2011, the budding anti-Rastrojos alliance was cemented when Urdinola struck a deal that saw the Machos effectively absorbed by the Urabeños. The loss sparked a power struggle, which was fueled by the paranoia generated by the re-introduction of extradition for drug traffickers. From that moment on, Henao would climb up positions until he became master and lord of the cartel. For the last two years that alliance has fought alongside the neo-paramilitary group known as the Urabeños in a bloody turf dispute with rivals the Rastrojos. 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Norte del Valle cartel rose to prominence during the second half of the 1990s, after the Cali Cartel and the Medellín Cartel fragmented, and it was known as one … Those from Medellín or Cali had left a school and the business became headless. The mixture of these three elements usually leads to breaking the law and in a coarse manner. The Norte del Valle Cartel is said to have pushed more than 500 metric tons of cocaine from Colombia to Mexico as one of the Sinaloa Cartel’s largest partners. Cartel del Norte del Valle; Operacional: 1972-2008: Liderado por: Orlando Henao (†) Iván Urdinola Grajales (†) Efraín Hernández Ramírez (†) Fernando Henao Montoya; Arcángel de Jesús Henao Montoya; Lorena Henao Montoya (†) Víctor Patiño Fómeque; Juan Carlos Ramírez Abadía; C.N.G.P./Caiado - El Piloto; Diego León Montoya Sánchez; Wilber Alirio Varela (†) Drug cartel based in southern Colombia, around the city of Cali and the Valle del Cauca Department. In life it is difficult to come out unscathed after being an architect of cruelty, promoter of death and cultivating greed. Retired Jefe and founder of the cartel. It was called Cartel del Norte del Valle (North Valley Cartel) because it operated in the north of the valley of Colombia, in the cities of Buenaventura and Cali. Juan Carlos Ramírez Abadía AKA Chupeta was captured in Brazil in August 2007. In 1986, Henao Montoya upstarted the Cali … Urdinola was next, captured in January 2013 after police reportedly tracked him by placing a chip in the collar of his favorite dog. Competing factions of the Norte Del Valle Cartel were locked in a bloody war, and the AUC had demobilized. The Norte del Valle Cartel is believed to be the single most powerful existing cartel in Colombia with exception of the smaller North Coast Cartel, the FARC Marxist guerrilla, and the right wing paramilitary group AUC. In exchange for a short sentence, Patiño collaborated with the DEA, becoming a treasure trove of information for the US authorities. Please support our mission investigating organized crime. The Norte del Valle Cartel (Spanish: Cártel del Norte del Valle ), or North Valley Cartel, was a drug cartel that operated principally in the north of the Valle del Cauca department of Colombia. Escobar, Rodríguez Orejuela, Herrera, Rodríguez Gacha, Santacruz, Lehder. Through several rounds of extensive field investigations, our researchers have analyzed and mapped out the main illicit economies and criminal groups present in 39 border departments spread across the six countries of study – the Northern Triangle trio of Guatemala, Honduras, and El…, The staff at InSight Crime was awarded the prestigious Simón Bolívar national journalism prize in Colombia for its two-year investigation into the drug trafficker known as “Memo Fantasma,” which was…, This project began 10 years ago as an effort to address a problem: the lack of daily coverage, investigative stories and analysis of organized crime in the Americas. A fines de la década de 2000, habían detenido a dos de los principales jefes del cártel del Norte del Valle, y uno que permaneció, un hombre que se llamaba «Patemuro», fue a buscar sangre. Wilber Varela, the hitman replaced his boss Orlando Henao Montoya. Power in their rivals passed to the Urdinola clan, relatives of one of the NDVC founders —  Ivan Urdinola, who died under mysterious circumstances in a Colombian jail in 2002. 15 Years of Blood, Vengeance: The Norte Del Valle Cartel Feud Continues. The atomized Rastrojos factions are believed to be controlled by former lieutenants of the Calle Serna brothers and remain a force on a local level. A year earlier, Diego Montoya had been arrested by a Colombian Army command group and extradited to the United States. The Machos now fight under the name of the Urabeños, but reportedly remain under the influence of family and associates of Diego Montoya and the Urdinola family. Hours later, seven other cartel members would also be taken down. Authorities in Colombia have reported an 18 percent drop in national homicides in the first four months of 2014, while…, A US court has sentenced a top Colombian drug trafficker years after he negotiated his way back to criminal life…, A crime wave has hit Colombia's port city of Cartagena just days before government officials and FARC rebels are scheduled…. It rose to prominence during the second half of the 1990s, after the Cali and Medellín Cartels fragmented The roots of the feud between the young traffickers and the Rastrojos date back to the decapitation of the NDVC leadership in the late nineties. The capture of Greylin Fernando Varon Cadena, alias “Martin Bala,” at the end of May marked the end of an alliance of “junior narcos” related to fallen Norte Del Valle Cartel (NDVC) drug traffickers, which saw Varon combine forces with Mario Urdinola, alias “Chicho,” and Andres Arroyave, alias la “Maquinita.”. Arroyave fled Colombia for Mexico after his father, NDVC associate Jose Arley Arroyave, was killed in a 2010 hit that the young Arroyave believed was carried out by the Rastrojos. After authorities jailed Cali Cartel leaders Miguel and Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela in the mid-1990s, several of their associated clan leaders eventually filled the void, including the Henaos, Urdinolas, Montoyas and Patinos. Wikipedia. His assignment: speak to a jailed paramilitary leader in the Itagui prison, just south of the city. The war sparked rising violence, with Cali — the epicenter of the conflict — claiming the unwanted honor of being the most dangerous city in Colombia, and the seventh most dangerous in the world. Everything evolves. However, for Arroyave, the lure of revenge was also too strong to stay away, and in 2011 he returned to Colombia to, in his words: “Kill everyone who took down my father.”. Juan Carlos Ramírez Abadía, Chupeta [17] ː Después de la muerte de Orlando Henao tomó mucha relevancia en el cartel del Norte del Valle. The cooperation between the Norte del Valle Cartel and the AUC allowed the paramilitaries to pose as a political and military organization despite their active involvement in drug trafficking and ties to the cartel. Within months the Rastrojo’s command structure was decimated, likely as a result of Calle Serna’s snitching. Cruelty to prevent someone from violating the will of the “Beloved Leader”, death as the ultimate punishment for those who insist on doing so and greed as an excuse to get everything done faster. While in Spain, the family, including Varon’s sisters, used their connections to establish a lucrative trafficking route into Europe. William Rodríguez Abadía, the eldest son of Miguel Rodríguez Orejuela, was also badly injured in the same attack. THE INVISIBLE CLAN After many years of establishing control in the Valle del Cauca District of Colombia, later taking control over the rest of the country, Venezuela and, Brazil, the jefe of the notorious Sánchez cartel decided it would be wise to begin taking turf over in the states, specifically setting their base of operations in Los Santos and other counties of California. The Rastrojos suffered the most dramatic, yet fitting fall. During the war against Escobar, those from the North of the Valley sided with those from Cali, and for some time they collaborated with each other, but nothing more. The conflict also claimed the lives and freedom of leaders on both sides. Arcángel was arrested on January 10, 2004 in Panama and extradited to New York. A former narco who Colombian media dubbed the “life saver” of former President Alvaro Uribe‘s brother last year put another nail in the coffin of this “good Colombian” over the week.. Drug Lord. For Varon, Urdinola, and Arroyave, it was a way to reclaim the wealth and power they saw as their inheritance, and exact revenge. The Cali Cartel did not respond with violence, but sent a letter to Rasguño through a lawyer. In the process Arroyave — still in his early twenties — amassed a fortune believed to exceed $100 million. The work of the aforementioned terrorist organization, with links both in the politics of the neo-Granadian nation and in the business guilds, consisted of monitoring crops and cocaine production laboratories in Colombia. In return, his former allies in Colombia turned on his family, associates and business interests, and his snitching cost the lives of an estimated 35 people, among them his half-brother, who was shot, dismembered and dumped in a river by the Calle Serna brothers and their associates. The Machos, meanwhile, began a period of decline, struggling to assert themselves in the new world of next generation drug trafficking groups that followed the dissolution of the NDVC and the paramiltary army of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC). The bitter vendetta that split Colombia’s Norte Del Valle Cartel has now claimed its third generation of victims, and continues to play out as the Rastrojos battle the Urabeños. As a drug trafficker and mafia capo, Patiño Fomeque has outlived the Cali Cartel and the NDVC, and has now positioned himself with the Urabeños to survive the demise of the Machos and the Rastrojos as well. The capture of Greylin Fernando Varon Cadena, alias “Martin Bala,” at the end of May marked the end of an alliance of “junior narcos” related to fallen Norte Del Valle Cartel (NDVC) drug traffickers, which saw Varon combine forces with … The Norte del Valle Cartel, or North Valley Cartel, is a drug cartel that operates principally in the north of the Valle del Cauca department of Colombia. Wikipedia Our work is costly and high risk. The next day, an important chief of hired assassins of the Cali cartel who called him El Capí was assassinated. The Sinaloa Cartel (Spanish: Cártel de Sinaloa), also known as the CDS, the Guzmán-Loera Organization, the Pacific Cartel, the Federation and the Blood Alliance, is a large international drug trafficking, money laundering, and organized crime syndicate established during the late 1980s. Es gewann nach dem Zusammenbruch des Medellín- und des Cali-Kartells in der zweiten Hälfte der 1990er Jahre stark an Bedeutung. Men like Orlando Henao Montoya AKA The man in the overall and Luis Hernando Gómez AKA Rasguño began with Dracula, who died at the hands of a band called Los … For the Urabeños, the war was simply business, part of an aggressive nationwide expansion. Thus, the drug lords from the North Valley Cartel decided to put an end to their attacks and the war ended. De 'gatilleros' a capos del narcotráfico: la historia del Cartel del Norte del Valle Junio 10, 2012 - 12:00 a. m. 2012-06-10 Por: Redacción de El País Meanwhile, the figure of El Quimico — Victor Patiño Fomeque — looms large in the background. In March 2012, Arroyave became the first of the new generation to fall when he was arrested at a farm in Cundinamarca. The first phase of the war, known in Colombia’s as “the war of the snitches,” claimed well over a thousand lives, among them the friends, family, and business partners of leading figures on both sides. After first working with the Cali Cartel, Patiño later became a NDVC associate and close ally of Montoya, but in 2002 was imprisoned in the United States. Thanks to their dominance in these areas, they exported tons of drugs from the Colombian Pacific coast. In 2008, Wilber Varela, whose head was appraised by the U.S. justice system at $5 million, was murdered in Merida, Venezuela, by one of his former assistants in the assassination case: Luis Enrique Calle Serna, AKA “Comba”. Its founders were the Rodríguez Orejuela brothers, Gilberto and Miguel, and José Santacruz Londoño, also known as "Chepe". The PEPES membership included the founders and key members of what was to become the AUC, Fidel and Carlos Castaño, and Diego Murillo, alias “Don Berna.” The year 2006 was another watershed moment for the Colombian underworld. Contrary to what many people think, the North Valley Cartel originated in 1978, under the hand of a man named Gerardo Martinez AKA Dracula who became a drug trafficker in the lands of Santa Marta, thanks to the heyday of marijuana. …, In early 2009, Steven Dudley was in Medellín, Colombia. Varela had serious problems recognizing authority and establishing cordial relations with the rest of the world, which is why he was self-employed without consulting anyone. He was responsible for ordering the death of Cali Cartel leader Helmer Herrera, and he was murdered on the orders of Pacho's brother Jose Manuel Herrera. Template:Update Template:Infobox criminal organization The Norte del Valle Cartel, or North Valley Cartel, is a drug cartel that operates principally in the north of the Valle del Cauca department of Colombia. One of the first to join that coalition was Varon, son of one of Diego Montoya’s close allies, Martin Fernando Varon. The capture of Arcángel Henao Montoya, also known as "El Mocho" ("The Amputee"), was a top leader of the cartel. Contrary to what many people think, the North Valley Cartel originated in 1978, under the hand of a man named Gerardo Martinez AKA Dracula who became a drug trafficker in the lands of Santa Marta, thanks to the heyday of marijuana. Suite à l'arrestation et l'extradition vers les Etats-Unis de Diego Leon Montoya Sanchez – alias Don Diego – en septembre 2007, puis à l'assassinat de son rival Wilber Alirio Varela au Venezuela le 29 janvier 2008, une lutte pour le contrôle du Cartel del Norte del Valle, l'organisation criminelle transnationale (OCT) la plus puissante de Colombie, semble être engagée. Strictly advises the boss and holds no power over the family. Named after this fertile valley in the northern part of the province of Valle del Cauca from where many of its members hail, the cartel was itself born of war. The revelation of “Zeus,” a former army major who worked for the Norte del Valle Cartel, confirmed this week that his claim that Santiago Uribe was the victim of a conspiracy was a lie. The conflict continued until Montoya was arrested in 2007 and his enemy Varela killed the following year by his own lieutenants. The group began to fracture into local factions, its days as a major player in the Colombian underworld numbered. By this time the Machos had 35 fighters, a shadow of the army they once were. Due to their violent warfare that left more than 1,000 people dead between 2003 and 2004, the Colombian government with support of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), FBI, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement have pursued the cartel heavily for over four years. From the port of Buenaventura, speedboats and fishing boats loaded with white powder left directly for Mexico, and were later introduced into the United States. Varon later reportedly helped bring the third of the junior narcos into the fold, Andres Arroyave. Yet even as the Urabeños used the turmoil in the Rastrojos to tighten their grip on the Pacific region, the Calle Serna bothers’ bitter enemies from the NDVC days fared little better. We then verify, write and edit, providing the tools to generate real impact. Finally came Varon, who was nabbed while buying a Harley Davidson in Bogota. In the 1990s, two organizations dominated the world’s recreational drug market. The story turned out to have the same ending. The letter said that if they continued their attacks, they would publicly expose them and the members of the public forces who collaborated with them to the authorities. The conflict stems from Montoya Sánchez’s disagreement with the determination and execution of Miguel Solano, AKA “Miguelito” by Varela without having consulted him, as they learned in the old school of the Cali Cartel. The fighting is centered in southwest Colombia in and around the northern part of the province of the Valle del Cauca, from which the cartel took its name. The Mexican cartels took Arroyave under their wing, and together they used his family connections to establish trafficking routes from Colombia. Lurking behind the junior narcos and the renewed war with the Rastrojos was an elder statesman of the drug trafficking world, who also bore a grudge against the Rastrojos — Victor Patiño Fomeque, alias “El Quimico” (the chemist). Such organizations were Latin America’s contribution to globalization, since they were genuine transnationals whose production was for export purposes and whose operations produced such a large amount of money that they were obliged to create a web of companies in many countries to bring back the profits derived from investment in crops, logistics, bribes, among other tasks necessary to achieve the objective. 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