Operation Agamemnon is the military and police campaign launched in 2015 to try to neutralize the Gulf Clan.
A police mayor died this Friday in the middle of a military operation against the Clan del Golfo, the largest criminal gang in the country, in a rural area of Antioquia, in the northwest of the country, the public force reported this Saturday in a statement.
This is Edwin Guillermo Blanco, a 34-year-old agent from Boyacá (center), who had been working in the Police for 15 years.
“Yesterday he died in the rural area of the municipality of Turbo, Antioquia, within the framework of sustained operations within the military and police campaign Agamemnon against the Clan del Golfo,” said Brigadier General Jesús Alejandro Barrera, director of the Carabineros and Rural Security, the section to which the young policeman belonged.
Operation Agamemnon is the military and police campaign launched in 2015 to try to neutralize the Gulf Clan and capture its top leader, Dairo Antonio Úsuga David, alias “Otoniel”, one of the most wanted men in the country.
“The National Police and the military forces continue with their full commitment to neutralize the threat posed by the Clan del Golfo as one of the main drivers of drug trafficking and other criminal economies that threaten public security in the country,” said Barrera.
The Clan del Golfo, also known as Autodefensas Gaitanistas de Colombia (AGC), was born after the demobilization of the paramilitaries Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC) in 2006 and became the largest criminal gang in the country, dedicated mainly to drug trafficking, extortion and illegal mining. (I)
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