Alejandro Char, Suspected Money Launderer for Sinaloa Cartel, is Elected Mayor of Barranquilla, Colombia

By Socalj 10/30/2023 10:15:00 AM
"Socalj" for Borderland Beat



The businessman and politician Alejandro Char, who is mentioned in an intelligence report on the activities of the Sinaloa Cartel on the Caribbean coast of Colombia, won this Sunday the elections for the Mayor of Barranquilla, the fourth largest city in the country.

Char, of the right-wing Radical Change party, obtained 73% of the votes, 60 points above his closest contender, the leftist candidate Antonio Bohórquez, of the Historical Pact, the political coalition of Colombian President Gustavo Petro.

The businessman and his family are identified in an intelligence report from the Military Attaché Office of the Mexican Embassy in Colombia as alleged participants in a network built by the Sinaloa Cartel on the Colombian Caribbean coast to launder money and control the ports of Barranquilla, Cartagena and Santa Marta to “guarantee their cocaine trafficking routes.”

The report, dated March 18, 2021, and revealed last Monday the 23rd by the Mexican media Eje Central, states that Alejandro Char and his brother Arturo are “two high-value targets” within the investigation into the network.

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In recent years, the governors of the Atlantic and the mayors of several cities in that coastal region have emerged from the “Char Clan,” which also has great influence at the national level. The family is close to former vice president Germán Vargas Lleras, political head of the Cambio Radical party, and to former right-wing presidents Álvaro Uribe and Iván Duque.

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