Another Drug Baron Found (Dead) in Venezuela

By Douglas Farah

One of Colombia's main drug lords, who had a $5 million U.S. bounty on his head, has been found dead in Venezuela, where he had been living for some time.

Wilber Varela, AKA "Soap," was a leader of the massively violent and powerful Northern Valley cartel, a former hitman, who is now suspected of being killed by his own men.

Such is the life in one of the most violent of the cartels. Previous leaders (Ivan Urdinola, Diego Montoya etc.) earned their infamy by chopping up their victims with chainsaws and dumping the bodies in the Cauca River, earning the body of water the title of "River of Death." This was terrorism in the name of greed rather than religion.

But what is more interesting is that Varela seems to have been living in the Venezuelan city of Merida. My full blog is here.

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