The sexual obsession for girls that eventually sank the founder of the largest criminal gang in Colombia

Zully was 12 years old and lived in Turbo, the coastal municipality of the department of Antioquia, when she found herself in the hands of Juan de Dios ugsuga, akaGiovanny& # 39; the founder of Gulf Clan, the largest criminal gang in Colombia today. His own wife, Elvira Sánchez, a 40-year-old midwife, took her to satisfy her badual appetite. Other girls were also exploited in the jungles of Darién, on the border with Panama, but she did that none of them did: he gave it.

"Giovanny" was targeted by the authorities in January 2011 after ordering the murder of 23-year-old Margarita Gómez and 27-year-old Mateo Matamala. Two biology students from the prestigious University of the Andes, Bogotá, who subconsciously decided to camp in an inhospitable area of ​​San Bernardo del Viento, a small town in the north of the country, near a drug pool in the Gulf of Morrosquillo, in the Caribbean Sea, which controlled the clan of the Gulf.

After months of investigation, the army confirmed that their camp was somewhere in the thick jungle of Darién. They flew over the camp for days until they found their farm. The problem was then how to get there. It was there that Zully appeared who on December 20, 2011, told them that the capo was looking for the vallenato singer. Farid Ortiz to liven up the end-of-year party, according to the portal Both banks. But the artist did not agree, so they searched for a local group.

Two infiltrators infiltrated a meeting with the vallenato group a few days before leaving for the camp and placed a GPS on a guitar by one of the musicians. The locator was turned on December 31 and located the target in a luxurious farmhouse called Casa Verde, located in Acandí, in the heart of the Chocoana Forest, facing the Caribbean Sea. The home was the extradited drug dealer Daniel Rendón Herrera, aka "Don Mario", with whom "Giovanny" was badociated many years ago and who inherited the organization that would later be called Clan del Golfo.

The geography of the place makes the operation difficult by land, so it is carried out by helicopter. On January 1, 2012, at six o'clock in the morning, a 30-minute confrontation began in the two-story house where the evening was held with 93 guests, including 27 minors alleged to have been kidnapped for badual slavery. . & # 39;Giovanny & # 39; was shot in the chest and another in one leg. He wore the uniform of the football team, two pistols and an M4 rifle. He was recognized by an 18-carat gold ring with the letter J,

Juan de Dios ugsuga is from Necoclí, a small town in Antioquia urabá, bordering the Caribbean Sea. badped by the war. In an interview with the newspaper The weather, his mother, Ana Celsa David, attributes to the fact that her children have gone astray. They were not revolutionaries, she said, but they found themselves in the guerrilla ranks People's Liberation Army (EPL)), he and his brother Dario, known today under the pseudonym of & # 39;Otoniel& # 39; the most wanted man in the country at this time.

They entered the fronts of Elkin González, in the east of Antioquia, and Luis Carlos Galán, in Urabá. But when the demobilized group in 1991 They decided to knock on the door of those who until then were their enemies, the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC). "Giovanny" was sent to the Meta to reinforce paramilitary expansion in the Centauros block. There he met the nickname "Don Mario," one of the leaders of the armed organization in the Eastern Plains.

He was with him even after the demobilization of the AUC in 2006, which, as was the case in his time in the guerrillas, has distanced himself from the agreements to prosecute crime. & # 39; Don Mario & # 39; created with the ex-combatants the Black Eagles, who were then called The Urabeños. But with his capture in 2009, "Giovanny" and his brother "Otoniel" took control of the organization of 250 fighters, with a presence in the departments of Antioquia, Córdoba and La Guajira.

The criminal gang was completely dedicated to drug traffic, and bloody conflicts over territorial control in these areas against Los Rastrojos and Los Paisas. As a result, for 2009, the municipalities of the Caucasus and Tarazá, Antioquia, have recorded high homicide rates, due to the bloody and incendiary fighting on the drug distribution channels, according to the foundation. Insight Crime.

They also doubled the drug harvests in Córdoba between 2008 and 2009, according to figures from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). In 2010, "Giovanny" was already on the list of drug traffickers United States Treasury Department. At that time, the governments of Colombia and the United States offered a reward of up to $ 250,000 for information to recover them.

But he hid very well in the jungle of Urabá and did not go beyond the area where his organization had full control, especially because of conflicts with other criminal gangs. From there, it was enough to create a large network of contacts with collaborators from 14 countries in Latin America and even Spain, according to Insight Crime.

From there, the criminal gang extended its illegal rents to other activities such as extortion and illegal mining, develop more and more with forced recruitment and become a major contributor to the systematic killings of social leaders. And there, "Giovanny" knew that he would die, he still disagreed with a submission as recently planned his brother "Otoniel" with the government of the former president Juan Manuel Santos, and claimed that he preferred death to prison.

In the jungles of Darién, the festivities organized by Los Urabeños were known, especially since most of its leaders had almost obsession with minors. And they had a strategy to capture them, according to a survey published by the director of criminal investigations and Interpol, Brigadier General Jorge Luis Vargas Valencia, in the newspaper The weather.

The investigation began with the statement of a 12-year-old Turbo girl who, once tired of harbadment in the "Giovanny" camp, escaped and surrendered to the police to find refuge. There, they knew the location of the capo and the badual exploitation to which she subjected many rural and African descendants. "She painfully pointed out that she did not want to see other young women suffer the same fate, that she should suffer," Vargas said in her article.

This girl was the one who stressed Elvira Sánchez, the 40-year-old midwife, with several cosmetic surgeries, as the main pimp of the criminal gang, who was already known as Clan del Golfo. She looked for the girls and offered them to the drug dealers for money. Between the raids that the authorities made to this organization, they found accounting sheets where they reported the accounts of payments of badual favors.

According to General Vargas, the payments were made by intermediaries. It was not only cash, but also gifts: designer clothes, motorcycles; so they blackmail the girls or their parents. was a whole network of pimping, so big that even relatives of the victims "lent" them in exchange for drugs, school supplies, food or anything else they needed.

Sometimes, they were also raped by subordinates or the pimping network before reaching the leaders of the Gulf clan. They looked for them in schools, sidewalks, rural hamlets. In general, they were vulnerable areas with great needs and without the presence of the state. and most were under 14 years old. This is how Juan de Dios ossuga stayed until his death.

Later, power was in the hands of his brother "Otoniel", currently the most wanted man in Colombia.