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Jul 26, 2016 · By Will Axford, Houston Chronicle July 26, 2016. Daniel Barrera Barrera, one of Colombia's most wanted drug lords, was sentenced to 35 years in federal prison in New York on...
- Will Axford
Daniel Barrera Barrera, also known as El Loco, is a Colombian drug lord suspected of being the boss of the illegal drug trade in Colombia's eastern plains. He was arrested in Venezuela on September 18, 2012 after trafficking drugs for more than 20 years.
- Sentenced to 35 years on July 25, 2016
- El Loco ("The Crazy One")
- Drug trafficker
- Colombian
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May 5, 2020 · Daniel Barrera Barrera, alias “El Loco,” was the closest thing Colombia has had to a modern Pablo Escobar. Until his capture in 2012, he used a vast network of collaborators, from former paramilitaries to leftist guerrillas, to move cocaine from the country’s Eastern Plains to the United States and Europe. History.
Apr 1, 2019 · While Colombian authorities in 2008 had put El Loco Barrera at the top of their wanted list together with Cuchillo and neo-paramilitary warlord “ Don Mario ,” the drug lord kept his low-profile. Until early 2012, only one undated photo of him existed.
Download this stock image: Daniel Barrera Barrera, one of Colombia's most wanted drug lords, whose alias is “El Loco Barrera,” is escorted in handcuffs and a flak jacket by National Guard officers as he is deported to Colombia from the Simon Bolivar airport in Maiquetia, near Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012.
Jul 27, 2016 · Daniel Barrera Barrera, 48, aka, Loco Barrera, a citizen of Colombia, worked with two Colombian terrorist organizations to manufacture and distribute thousands of kilograms of cocaine per year. He also laundered tens of millions of dollars in drug proceeds.
Jul 25, 2016 · For his decades-long trafficking of more than 720 tons of cocaine, creating a narcotics pipeline from Colombia to four different continents, Daniel Barrera Barrera will spend the next 35 years in federal custody. Thanks to the outstanding agents of the DEA and HSI, this international drug kingpin’s reign is over.”.