Search Bloc
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Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Sidebar/configuration' not found. The Search Bloc (Template:Langx) is the name of three different ad hoc special operation units of the National Police of Colombia. They were originally organized with a focus on capturing or killing highly dangerous individuals or groups of individuals.[1]
First Search Bloc
The original Search Bloc was created in 1986 by President Virgilio Barco with the sole objective of apprehending drug lord Pablo Escobar and his associates. Its original commander was Colonel Hugo Martinez.[2][3][4]
Over 600 Search Bloc members received training from the United States and the Colombian army and were specially selected to be impervious to police corruption from the drug cartels. Throughout its mission, Search Bloc faced many obstacles, including a spy within the group. There were claims that the Search Bloc collaborated with anti-Escobar vigilante groups such as Los Pepes, including vigilantism in the suspicious deaths of Escobar's subordinates.[5]
Escobar was killed on December 2, 1993, in a shootout with members of the Search Bloc.[6]
After dismantling the Medellín Cartel, the Search Bloc was transferred to Cali to locate and shut down the Cali Cartel.
Second Search Bloc
The Search Bloc was revived in 2004 to root out cocaine and heroin traffickers in southwest Colombia. The new Search Bloc was tasked with taking apart the Norte del Valle cartel and arresting its leader, Diego León Montoya Sánchez, which it did successfully in 2007.
Third Search Bloc
In 2007, the Colombian government again ordered the creation of a new Search Bloc against the Águilas Negras, or Black Eagles, classified as a gang of former paramilitaries.[7]
See also
References
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- ^ Killing Pablo, Mark Bowden, Atlantic Monthly Press, 2001, Template:ISBN
- ^ Killing Pablo, Mark Bowden, Atlantic Monthly Press, 2009, Template:ISBN
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Cran, William; Tepper, Stephanie (March 25, 1997). "The Godfather of Cocaine". Frontline (#1309). PBS.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Carlos Castaño Gil – TRIAL International". trialinternational.org. Archived from the original on 2016-07-08. Retrieved 2020-09-27.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."U.S. experts played large part in drug lord's death, report says". The Tampa Bay Times. November 12, 2000. Retrieved August 6, 2025.
- ^ Killing Pablo, Mark Bowden, Atlantic Monthly Press, 2009, Template:ISBN
- ^ Captured nine presumed members of the Águilas Negras Colombian Army Accessed 20 August 2007.
External links
- Mark Bowden, Killing Pablo (a copy of Bowden's serial articles in The Philadelphia Inquirer is available here: [1])
- Jane's Jane's Terrorism & Security Monitor March 01, 2004
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