La Guajira Cartel
La Guajira Cartel or Alianza Fronteriza refers to a criminal organization originating from Maicao that operates in the Guajira Peninsula on the Caribbean Sea, north of the border between Colombia and Venezuela. Its base territory is the city of Maracaibo and a large part of the state of Zulia in Venezuela, also covers La Guajira Department in Colombia; especially Maicao, and to the north of the Cesar Department, particularly, its capital Valledupar, thus matching the historical territory of the Wayuu indigenous ethnic group, to which some of its members belong. The cartel specializes in the control of contraband of all kinds of supplies; especially, Venezuelan gasoline to Colombia, weapons, minerals, stolen cars, cattle and drug trafficking. They also commit all kinds of robberies, extortion, assassination, threats, kidnappings, and usury.
Activities
La Guajira Cartel processes the drug in the Colombian departments of Cesar, La Guajira and southern Bolívar, which is then transported to Venezuela passing through the states of Apure, Zulia, the region of the Paraguaná Peninsula in Falcón, Caracas, and then to the Isla de Margarita, where it is exported to other Caribbean islands such as the Dominican Republic and Haiti, bound for the United States and Europe.Members of La Guajira Cartel have also carried out kidnappings for extortion. One of the gangs related to the cartel was accused of the kidnapping of the Spanish citizens María Concepción Marlaska and Ángel Sánchez Fernández, which took place on 17 May 2013.