Weekly Report - 22 September 2011 (WR-11-38)

ARGENTINA| Colombian narco summit in Rosario. This week the Colombian daily El Tiempo reported that members of the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in Miami are trying to establish how two of Colombia’s most wanted drug-traffickers, ‘Valenciano’ (Maximiliano Bonilla Orozco) and ‘Sebastián’ (Ericson Vargas), managed to hold three meetings in the city of Rosario, Santa Fe, without being detected by the Argentine authorities. According to the paper, the DEA believes the meetings took place during the first week of September with the aim of splitting up the drugs peddling business in Medellín and avoiding an escalation in violence ahead of the 30 October regional elections in Colombia. The men are believed to have travelled on Central American passports; Colombia offers a reward of Col$2bn (US$1.07m) for ‘Sebastián’, while the US offers US$5m for ‘Valenciano’.

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