Dominican drug trafficking networks aren’t always controlled by the Mexican drug route to Venezuela. Colombian gangsters like ‘Soap’ and ‘Comba’ helped them and lead the way. How did they consolidate in the area?

‘Lollipop’ was one of the drug traffickers who used the route over Venezuela.

‘Lollipop’ was one of the drug traffickers who used the route over Venezuela.

If there is an issue these days it occupies the attention of the DEA and drug authorities of the continent on how to stop the process of diversification of routes of drug traffickers and find their links in countries that were not as relevant as the illegal routes of transiting products to the United States and Europe.

It is an ambitious goal, because the more you scrutinized the more surprises you find about the number of officials of all ranks and from several countries who succumb to the temptation of easy money.

The routes changed, or is reactivated many years ago were not used, and there are facts that lend themselves to conflicting interpretations. For example, while U.S. intelligence indicates that the route by the Pacific Ocean is most often used to bring to that country Colombian drugs that passed through Central America, reports indicate that most seizures are the Caribbean Sea.

It is no doubt that, given the pressure against the Colombian guerrillas, the criminal gangs, the paramilitaries and drug traffickers pure , these organizations have been forced long ago to diversify its forms and shipping points to supply the international market . DEA documents revealed by The Spectator on May 4 last realize that for more than a decade the role of Venezuela became more important in this regard. The maps indicate that Jamaica lost its importance as a transit and shipments increased following the route of Isla Margarita, Aruba, Puerto Rico or alternate routes through Venezuela to reach Africa and then to Europe.

Two weeks after The Spectator also documented that business for Venezuela was so attractive to drug traffickers who soon became criminals from other countries to dispute the hegemony of the Colombians, using time division by the fall of certain bosses or internal vendettas. It was thus between La Guajira in Colombia and Venezuela’s Zulia showed signs Dominicans and ‘Los Zetas‘ Mexicans.

How did the Colombian cartels become entrenched in Venezuela and what was the turning point for other countries were taken away control of the business? The Fm RCN, in its news broadcast on Friday morning gave new stitches on the subject track in his investigation of the daily alias “Lollipop” and documents seized from Luis Enrique Calle Serna, alias “Comba”.

These are two of the most Colombian drug traffickers used the Venezuelan path over the past decade and who, as revealed by the station, had carefully detailed the names of at least a dozen high-level contacts in Venezuela , between military and civilian – to move quietly in the country. One such document, 2008, states that Wilber Varela, alias “Soap”, one of the bloodiest drug traffickers in the last generation and who was killed in Venezuela on January 31, 2008, had to establish contact with Nestor Reverol, then general of the National Guard of Venezuela and current deputy director of Public Safety and National Anti-Drug Office (ONA). also speaks of a former general of the state of Lara, among others.

Which are designated as contact persons does not mean that the narcos really been addressed. Much less proves that the aforementioned officials and former officials of the neighboring country have accepted the proposals of the alleged offenders. Simply provides the means to match the analysis times and places where the Colombian mafia would have acted.

In fact, the documents are evaluated by the Colombian authorities to establish who could also be involved on this side of the border in the expansion of these criminal structures. From the March 26, 2009, said La Fm, the Chupeta documents were sent to the Prosecutor by former Navy Admiral Cesar Augusto Narváez Arciniegas, head of Naval Intelligence.

Meanwhile, the governments of Colombia and Venezuela are working to block his way to the extreme violence that extend for 2,200 kilometers of common border. A strategy of retreat of the FARC , which run to seek refuge in Venezuela after attack in Colombia, to the Black Eagles, that since 2004 profit from the drug smuggling and vaccines to livestock in the Venezuelan state of Apure.

The smugglers of gasoline, which is a new business with increased participation from emerging groups they generate clashes between all of the above, whom the lust for easy money has led to a war in which those who bear the brunt are farmers on both sides of the border.