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The violence between drug trafficking gangs in Spain has intensified due to the arrival of Mexican and Albanian cartels, as well as the increase in the price of cocaine, which has led to an increase in settling scores and drug thefts. #Narcotráfico #Violencia #Cárteles (translated)

Abelardo De La Espriella reported that four suspected members of the Edwin Román Velásquez Valle substructure of the Gulf Clan had been captured in Santa Fe de Antioquia and Betulia. Among them, he identified alias “Caliche,” whom he described as a coordinator of hitmen, and aliases “Pachito,” “Valeria,” and “Lina.” He stated that they participated in the attack in Betulia in which sub-inspectors Wilmer Ovidio Gallego Sepúlveda and Edwin Danilo Chamorro Bastida were killed. He also pointed out that in Nuquí, Chocó, alias “Niño Potro” had been captured, wanted for extradition by the United States and accused of coordinating the shipment of nearly two tons of cocaine a month. De La Espriella said he would seek to dismantle the Gulf Clan and bring its members to justice, and concluded with patriotic and religious slogans. #Narcotráfico #Justicia #Colombia (translated)

Abelardo De La Espriella reported that, in Yarumal, Antioquia, the National Army killed in combat two people identified as members of the Gulf Clan and seized a rifle and a pistol. In Mitú, Vaupés, five members of the Armando Ríos structure were captured and 1,058 kilos of marijuana, two boats, and an engine were confiscated, he noted. He also indicated that the Police seized 611.8 kilos of cocaine in Ibagué that were being transported in a truck and captured one person. In Puerto Asís and Puerto Santander, he added, two illegal fuel refining infrastructures were destroyed, and 43,453 gallons were either disabled or destroyed. De La Espriella said that the balance of the last 24 hours was 29 captures and that, since August 7, there had been 32,503 captures, 129,526 kilos of drugs seized, and 3,456 firearms taken out of circulation. He stated that his order had been to pursue criminals and disrupt the economies that sustained them. He closed with patriotic and religious slogans. #Narcoterrorismo #Justicia #SeguridadCiudadana (translated)

The Maritime Police seized approximately 464 kilograms of hashish in 10 bales along the coast between Cabo Espichel and Sines, a day after the GNR arrested three men and seized about four tons of cocaine in an operation related to drug trafficking. #TráficoDeDroga #PolíciaMarítima #ApreensãoDeDrogas (translated)

Ecuador has carried out a police operation that has resulted in the arrest of 21 people, including a key financier of a drug trafficking network, following the seizure of 13 tons of cocaine that links the country's most wanted trafficker with a police inspector detained in Madrid. #Narcotráfico #Cocaína #Ecuador (translated)

The Civil Guard, in collaboration with Europol and the DEA, has dismantled a wholesale cocaine supply network in Barcelona, arresting 20 people, seizing more than 50 kilos of drugs, 400,000 euros in cash, and a weapon, while investigating money laundering offenses related to the organization. #Cocaína #Narcotráfico #Barcelona (translated)

The Spanish drug lord Alejandro Salgado Vega, alias 'Tigre', is suspected of collaborating with the DEA, which has generated distrust among his partners in the drug trafficking organization that controls important European ports and ships cocaine from Latin America from his hideout in Dubai. #TigreSalgado #narcotráfico #DEA (translated)

Gustavo Petro stated that some airlines intended to apply the U.S. OFAC law in Colombia due to his ties with Colombian individuals. He asserted that this legislation did not apply in Colombian territory and that for it to do so, the country would need to change its Constitution through a Constituent Assembly. Petro said that OFAC had stopped focusing on drug traffickers and that, according to him, people opposed to the genocide in Gaza were included on its lists. He claimed that he was sanctioned for his speech before the UN and for asking for the formation of a United Nations army to defend Gaza, which would include the Colombian battalion deployed in Sinai to protect Palestinian children. He also accused the DEA of spending a year searching for and fabricating evidence regarding alleged links of his with drug trafficking. He said that drug traffickers whom he himself extradited, and who he claimed wanted to kill him, were the ones who believed those accusations. He maintained that Colombian drug trafficking had political influence, but that it was not found in progressivism, which, according to him, the narcos had pursued and attacked. Petro accused drug trafficking of supporting extreme right-wing ideas and stated that Colombian drug traffickers had access to the White House while poor farmers and people transporting small amounts of drugs through the Caribbean were being pursued. He added that drug traffickers with judicial agreements in the United States were moving shipments in submarines and had fleets of planes, and asserted that cocaine traveled in containers from companies of presidents who met with Donald Trump. Finally, Petro claimed that alias Fito contradicted journalist Vicky by saying he did not know him and that, instead, he was a friend and partner of the person who accused him. #Colombia #DerechosHumanos #JusticiaSocial (translated)