Fifth leader of Colombia’s largest cartel dies in operation with the DEA

Bogotá, Colombia. The fifth leader of the Gulf Clan, the largest drug cartel in Colombia, died in an operation between the national police and the U.S. anti-drug agency (DEA), President Gustavo Petro reported on Saturday.The president, who unsuccessfully tried to negotiate disarmament with that organization, decreed a unilateral ceasefire in January 2023, but suspended it after the group imposed a “mining strike” in the northwest of the country …

Colombian President Gustavo Petro announced today that one of the leaders of the Gulf Clan drug gang, José Miguel Demoya Hernández, known as "Chirimoy", was killed in a clash with police and the US Drug Enforcement Administration.

One guerrilla member of the National Liberation Army (ELN) died and another was arrested in a military operation in a rural area of the Colombian municipality of Tibu, in the convulsed region of Catatumbo (northeast), Defense Minister Pedro Sánchez Suárez reported this Sunday. “Our glorious Army battle against the ELN cartel in Catatumbo leaves two neutralized (one killed in the military operation and one captured),” Sanchez said in a message pu…

The fifth man in the command structure of the criminal group Clan del Golfo, identified as José Miguel Demoya Hernández, alias ‘Chirimoya’, was killed by the Colombian Police in an operation in the Caribbean department of Cordoba, reported the Ministry of Defense this Saturday (05.04.2025). The operation took place in La Apartada (Córdoba) [...] The entry Colombia announces death of high command of the Gulf Clan was first published in Informatio…

The operation took place in Cordoba and was led by the Police, with the support of the Prosecutor’s Office and the DEA. The fifth man in the command structure of the Gulf Clan, identified as José Miguel Demoya Hernández, alias ‘Chirimoya’, was killed by the Colombian Police in an operation in the department of Córdoba, the Ministry of Defense reported. The operation took place in La Apartada (Córdoba) and was led by the Police, with the support …

Nine members of the Gulf Clan, including a ringleader nicknamed "Hitler", died almost a month ago in a bombing by the Army and the Air Force.