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That's because much of the relative calm of recent years may have been due to the dominance of one local overlord. Paramilitary leader Diego Fernando Murillo, a.k.a. Don Berna, had a monopoly over the drug trade, ruling his empire and followers even from prison. But when Don Berna was extradited to the U.S. in 2008, mid-level narco-traffickers started fighting to fill the power vacuum the capo had left. "Little cats became tigers," says a former drug trafficker. Many demobilized paramilitary fighters picked up arms again instead of pursuing the work training and education opportunities offered...
...when thousands of narco-financed paramilitary groups started putting down their arms in exchange for amnesty or reduced sentences. At the same time, however, many observers attribute the reduced levels of violence to the control that another drug lord and paramilitary leader, Diego Fernando Murillo Bejarano, alias "Don Berna," held over the city, suppressing uprisings from other drug gangs. But in May 2008, Don Berna was arrested and extradited to the U.S. and Don Mario sought control over the monopoly held by his rival, ushering in a new wave of violence. Homicide rates in Medellin rose...
...Valley cartel. After he was arrested in 2007, Montoya presented such a security risk that prison officials decided to house him on a Navy ship off Colombia's Pacific Coast. But during his transfer there, clueless Colombian agents picked up the wrong prisoner, a paramilitary warlord known as Don Berna. After the confusion was cleared up, the two dons were eventually extradited...
Five years ago the scourge began to collect its toll: within a few months the two youngest of seven children died; next the mother went, and a brother, 10. Last year the father died, and Berna dette, new head of a family, was coughing and losing weight. Then at last she saw a doctor. County officials moved fast...
Super-Confusion. But machine toolmakers complained last week that they still weren't getting the steel. Reason: the warehouses which have always supplied their steel are only being allotted 80% of their base-period supplies. "What they're actually getting," said Cleveland's Tell Berna, general manager of the National Machine Tool Builders Association, "is about 40%." Last week the Government's new "solution" was a super-super-priority, which gives machine toolmakers first claim on any machine tools they may need to expand. But that, as Berna pointed out, will not supply steel. And this...