Los Pepes
Los Pepes ( Spanish Perseguidos por Pablo Escobar , Pursued by Pablo Escobar) were a Colombian paramilitary death squad . Their goal was the elimination of Pablo Escobar , the leader of the Medellín cartel , an association of various cocaine producers and smugglers. In an interview with the Colombian news magazine Semana , Fidel Castaño claimed he was the founder of Los Pepes .
The association was founded in the early 1990s by the competing Cali cartel , former partners of Escobar (especially Diego Murillo Bejarano , called Don Berna or Cdte. Adolfo Paz ) and paramilitaries (Castaño brothers, founders of the Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC)). The reason was the murder of the leaders of the Moncada and Galeano clans in Escobar's La Catedral prison, ordered by Escobar . It has been suggested on several occasions that both Colombian and US intelligence and law enforcement agencies supported the association.
Los Pepes were responsible for the murder of over 300 followers and relatives of Escobar. After Escobar's death in 1993, the Pepes went into the Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia .
literature
- William Aviles: Global Capitalism, Democracy, and Civil-Military Relations in Colombia . Suny Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-7914-6700-8 , pp. 115-116.
- Peter Dale Scott: Drugs, Oil, and War: The United States in Afghanistan, Colombia, and Indochina . Rownman & Littlefield, 2003, ISBN 978-0-7425-2522-1 , p. 88.
- William Avilés: Paramilitarism and Colombia's Low-Intensity Democracy . In: Journal of Latin American Studies , Volume 38, No. 2, May 2006, pp. 379-408 ( JSTOR 3875504 ).
- Mark Bowden : Killing Pablo: The Hunt for Pablo Escobar, Colombia's drug lord . Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 978-3-8270-0164-1 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Yo fui el Creador de Los Pepes . semana.com, June 27, 1994 (Spanish)