Daniel Rendón Herrera

Daniel Rendón Herrera (alias Don Mario; born 1966) is a Colombian drug lord. He was captured on 15 April 2009 while hiding in a jungle.[1]

Rendón Herrera after being captured by the Colombian police.

Rendón Herrera once led the Los Gaitanistas drug trafficking paramilitary gang, formerly known as Auto-defensas Gaitanistas (Gaitanist Self-Defence Group), and founding member of the "Los Urabeños" criminal gang.[2][3][4]

Biography

Rendón Herrera was born in 1966 in Antioquia to a poor family, one of 14 children.[5] One of his brothers is former paramilitary leader Freddy Rendón-Herrera, alias "El Aleman" ("The German")[6][7][8][9]

Daniel Rendón Herrera was second in command, after his brother, of the Elmer Cárdenas block of the ACCU (Peasant Self-Defense Forces of Córdoba and Urabá), a paramilitary group that belonged to the AUC (United Self Defense Forces of Colombia). He was friend of Carlos Castaño Gil, who was the top commander of the AUC; and in his honor named one of his organizations, called Heroes of Castaño, that later became a block of a new narco-paramilitary organization, created by himself, the AGC (Gaitanist Self-Defense Forces of Colombia), in which took command of 400 men in the Urabá region, and controlled the drug traffic, through alliances made with the guerrillas.[10][11][12]

References
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  2. ""Urabeños", más que una banda". Elcolombiano.com. Retrieved 20 September 2015.
  3. "¿Quién es Daniel Rendón Herrera, alias "Don Mario"?". Caracol.com.co. 15 April 2009. Retrieved 20 September 2015.
  4. "Dario Antonio Usuga David". State.gov. 15 September 1971. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
  5. "Perfil de Daniel Rendón Herrera" (in Spanish). Elheraldo.co. Retrieved 20 September 2015.
  6. "News from DEA, Domestic Field Divisions, New York City News Releases". Justice.gov. 22 April 2009. Archived from the original on 17 April 2014. Retrieved 20 September 2015.
  7. "Policía excluyó de los más buscados a hermano de alias "Mario"". Elcolombiano.com. Retrieved 20 September 2015.
  8. "John Jairo de Jesús Rendón-Herrera profile". eltiempo.com. Retrieved 20 September 2015.
  9. "Todo empezó en Envigado". Elespectador.com. 12 February 2011. Retrieved 20 September 2015.
  10. "Conflicto Armado en Colombia". VerdadAbierta.com. Retrieved 20 September 2015.
  11. "Queda libre el hermano del confeso narcoparamilitar alias 'Don Mario'". eltiempo.com. Retrieved 20 September 2015.
  12. "La telarana de los paras en Uraba". Verdadabierta.com. Retrieved 20 September 2015.
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