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Captured Sinaloa drug kingpin Edgar Valdez Villareal routinely dealt with Columbia's leftist Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) for the cocaine he sold in the US, according to Mexican news reports.
Villareal was captured only a few days ago in a police operation in the Mexican state of Mexico. His arrest has sparked a number of police and counternarcotics operations both in Mexico and in Columbia.
Columbia National Police announced the arrest of 11 individuals they say are related to the drug operations that supplied Mexican drug cartels with cocaine. Police operations spanned the cities of Bogota, Medellin, Pereira, Cali and Buenaventura.
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Police say Frente 30 averaged 3 tons of cocaine a month shipped. Much of that supply went through nearly every Mexican drug cartel.
The police operations dubbed Operation Gulf began in 2008 beginning with the capture in Costa Rica of Walberto Leather Salazar, who police said conducted narcotic operations with Panamanian guerrillas. Information gained from the capture led to police connecting FARC narcotic operations with Mexican drug gangs.
Mexican gangs' drug purchases also went to Europe as well.