Daniel Rendón Herrera


Daniel Rendón Herrera is a Colombian drug lord. He was captured on 15 April 2009 while hiding in a jungle.
Rendón Herrera once led the Los Gaitanistas drug trafficking paramilitary gang, formerly known as Auto-defensas Gaitanistas, and founding member of the "Los Urabeños" criminal gang.

Biography

Rendón Herrera was born in 1966 in Antioquia to a poor family, one of 14 children. One of his brothers is former paramilitary leader Freddy Rendón-Herrera, alias "El Aleman"
Daniel Rendón Herrera was second in command, after his brother, of the Elmer Cárdenas block of the ACCU, a paramilitary group that belonged to the AUC. He was friend of Carlos Castaño Gil, who was the top commander of the AUC; and in his honor named one of his organizations, called Heroes of Castaño, that later became a block of a new narco-paramilitary organization, created by himself, the AGC, in which took command of 400 men in the Urabá region, and controlled the drug traffic, through alliances made with the guerrillas.