(14 Nov 2012) SHOTLIST
Simon Bolivar Airport, Maiquetia, Venezuela
1. Wide of Colombian plane that will be used to deport Colombian drug lord Daniel Barrera from Venezuela to Colombia
2. Mid of armed and masked military police
3. Mid of police vehicle at airport
4. Various of Barrera being escorted to plane by armed and masked military police officers
5. Mid of cameraman
6. Wide of Barrera getting into plane, escorted by police
7. Close-up of armed and masked military police officer
8. Wide of plane taxiing on runway
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Bogota, Colombia
9. Wide of Barrera being escorted off plane by armed police officers
10. Mid of Colombian drug lord Jorge Milton Cifuentes Villa being escorted by police officers
11. Wide of Barrera and Cifuentes standing side by side near police van that will take them into custody
12. Mid of Colombian National Police director General Jose Roberto Leon approaching podium for news conference
13. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) General Jose Roberto Leon, Colombian National Police director:
"Among them is Daniel "El Loco" Barrera who is sought after by Colombian authorities as well as US authorities for crimes related to drug trafficking and asset laundering."
14. Wide of Barrera and Cifuentes being escorted into police vehicle
STORYLINE
Venezuelan authorities deported a prominent drug trafficking suspect to Colombia on Wednesday, nearly two months after his
capture in an operation aided by Colombian and US authorities.
Daniel Barrera, known as "El Loco," or "The Madman," is considered one of the country's most-wanted drug lords and Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has called him "the last of the great capos."
Barrera was handcuffed as he was led to a waiting plane at Caracas' international airport and then escorted from the plane by armed police when it landed in Bogota.
Colombia's National Police director General Jose Roberto Leon said that Barrera "is sought after by the Colombian authorities as well as US authorities for crimes related to drug trafficking and asset laundering."
Leon said that Barrera is to be extradited to the United States, a process that could take months.
The 50-year-old Barrera was arrested after Colombian officials, who had been working with US and British authorities, notified Venezuela that Barrera was making a call from one of dozens of public phones that were being monitored, officials said.
Colombian police say Barrera had been in Venezuela since 2008 and owned ranches worth millions of dollars.
Colombian authorities say Barrera operated in a swath of eastern Colombia including areas along the border in Venezuela, and had a drug smuggling alliance with rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known as the FARC.
According to a 2010 US grand jury indictment, Barrera was both manufacturing and trafficking drugs on a large scale, buying raw cocaine paste from FARC rebels and converting it into cocaine at his labs in eastern Colombia.
The indictment said that amounted to as much as 400 tons (36,300 kilograms) per year, and that Barrera then arranged shipment of the drugs through Colombia and Venezuela to the United States, Europe and Africa.
Barrera was one of six drug suspects handed over to Colombian authorities on Wednesday.
Alleged drug trafficker Jorge Milton Cifuentes Villa, also known as "JJ" was also deported.
Cifuentes was wanted by Colombian and US authorities, and was captured in Venezuela last week.
He is accused of smuggling more than 30 tons (27,200 kilograms) of cocaine to the US in the past three years and having links to Mexico's Sinaloa cartel.
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