Narcotráfico

¿Qué es el Clan del Golfo y cómo opera en Costa Rica?

Un colombiano naturalizado costarricense vinculado a este grupo narco colombiano operaba desde Ciudad Colón

(FILES) In this file photo taken on August 10, 2017 members of the Colombian antinarcotics police test cocaine from a pack of a one-ton shipment seized to the country's biggest drug gang, the Gulf Clan, in a container with destination to Europe, in Buenaventura, Colombia's main port on the Pacific Ocean. 

Europe is witnessing a "resurgence" in cocaine use as the drug's output increases in Latin America, an EU watchdog reported on June 7, 2018, voicing concern over tens of thousands of people seeking treatment for the first time. An estimated 2.34 million people between 15 to 34 years old used cocaine in the last year in the European Union, or 1.9 percent of that age group, the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction said. "The findings from our new report indicate that Europe is now experiencing the consequences of increased cocaine production in Latin America," EMCDDA Director Alexis Goosdeel said. / AFP PHOTO / Raul Arboleda
(FILES) In this file photo taken on August 10, 2017 members of the Colombian antinarcotics police test cocaine from a pack of a one-ton shipment seized to the country's biggest drug gang, the Gulf Clan, in a container with destination to Europe, in Buenaventura, Colombia's main port on the Pacific Ocean. Europe is witnessing a "resurgence" in cocaine use as the drug's output increases in Latin America, an EU watchdog reported on June 7, 2018, voicing concern over tens of thousands of people seeking treatment for the first time. An estimated 2.34 million people between 15 to 34 years old used cocaine in the last year in the European Union, or 1.9 percent of that age group, the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction said. "The findings from our new report indicate that Europe is now experiencing the consequences of increased cocaine production in Latin America," EMCDDA Director Alexis Goosdeel said. / AFP PHOTO / Raul Arboleda

El Clan del Golfo es una peligrosa organización criminal colombiana, centrada en el narcotráfico y la extorsión, y considerada una de las mayores amenazas del crimen transnacional. Este martes, autoridades judiciales detuvieron en Costa Rica a un hombre identificado como Alexis Meléndez León, por su vínculo con este grupo.

Se presume que Meléndez, de origen tico - colombiano, comandaba una organización que exportaba cocaína a Europa y legitimaba las ganancias mediante la compra de suntuosos bienes.

El Clan del Golfo se fundo en 2007 por Daniel Rendón Herrera, alias Don Mario, quien fue capturado y extraditado a Estados Unidos, esta banda criminal surgió tras la desmovilización de las Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC). Su líder más reciente, Dairo Antonio Úsuga, alias Otoniel, fue capturado en 2021 y extraditado en 2022.

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