Monthly Archives: December 2017
When I arrived in Bogota to begin my assignment, Pablo Escobar had organized a group of Medellin-based traffickers facing extradition to the United States to press the Colombian government to abolish the extradition treaty. The group called themselves the “Extraditables,” and they initiated a terror campaign to force the government to heed their demands using assassinations and indiscriminate…..
Villavicencio, Colombia
As I had previously mentioned, the purpose of my assignment to Colombia was to assist the Colombian government’s struggle against the Medellin cartel and the subversive elements destabilizing the country. Only an insignificant fraction of the thousands of firearms seized from the drug traffickers and the guerrillas by the Colombian police and military had…..
My training as an agent and then as a certified explosives specialist had exposed me to a variety of grenades and other ordnance commonly encountered on the U.S streets. I had seen my share of grenades, mortar rounds, and mining explosives working on the border out of El Paso, Texas. I had dealt with the legendary pineapple…..