Don Berna: The Extradition He Could Not Stop
In the years after Pablo Escobar's death, Medellin's criminal economy runs through a single quiet clearinghouse, the Envigado Office, coordinating debts, violence and cocaine exports across the city's comunas. The man behind it is Diego Fernando Murillo Bejarano, known as Don Berna, a former Escobar bodyguard who made himself indispensable to Colombia's paramilitary peace process while keeping his networks moving. Prosecutors in the Southern District of New York estimate the organization exported multi-ton quantities of cocaine to the United States and Europe, protected by a peace law his…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.