Byline: CHRIS TORCHIA Associated Press
BOGOTA, Colombia A leader of the Cali drug cartel who is suspected of involvement in a bombing that killed 29 people surrendered to authorities on Monday.
Henry Loaiza, alias ``The Scorpion,'' is considered to be a hard-line cartel member who had wanted to respond to police pressure on the cartel with violent revenge attacks. He is accused of involvement in several massacres.
His surrender comes after the June 9 capture of Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, believed by U.S. officials to be the strategic planner of the cartel, which supplies 80 percent of the world's cocaine.
The surrender also follows a …
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