Petro Criticizes the Police Raid That Killed 'Bendito Menor,' Even Though His Own Government Failed to Capture the Narco Boss for Four Years

Petro Criticizes the Police Raid That Killed 'Bendito Menor,' Even Though His Own Government Failed to Capture the Narco Boss for Four Years

Naín Andrés Pérez Toncel, the 26-year-old cartel boss known as “Bendito Menor,” is dead. Police killed him and his fiancée in a raid on a house in Riohacha on the night of September 3rd into September 4th, four weeks into the administration of President Abelardo de la Espriella. Former President Gustavo Petro, whose own government spent four years failing to capture the same man, is now publicly questioning why police didn’t take him alive. The …