Miguel Angel Melchor Mejia Munera, the leader of Los Nevados, a major Colombian narcotics trafficking ring, was reported killed this week in an operation conducted by the Colombian National Police. Mejia, who was wanted in the United States, with a $5m reward posted by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), was a former AUC member who was doing business with the FARC, and has been described as the most wanted of all Colombian criminals by the country's Defence Minister. He was described as wearing a US military uniform when he died in an engagement between his bodyguards and the police, in which two members of his gang were killed, and three arrested. The problem is, nobody seems to be sure whether it was Miguel, or his twin brother, Victor Manuel, his partner in the Nevados drug cartel. So who was it?

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