Juan Carrinson Castro Estupinan , a notorious drug lord wanted by prosecutors in the United States escaped from a prison in Columbia on Friday, authorities confirmed. Estupinan known as Matamba was said to be a powerful figure in the Gulf clan drug trafficking organization.
Matamba who was detained last May and accused of asset laundering and of trafficking cocaine and heroin, had escaped from the La Picota Prison in Bogota allegedly with inside help.
Ivan Duque, Columbian president told reporters that he had instructed the attorney general to ensure that those who helped Castro Estupinan escape were arrested. one guard has already been detained,” justice minister wilson ruiz, said. 
Duque said he was leading investigators in hatching a plan to recapture this criminal. The drug lord was also under investigation from commiting crimes with the aim of commiting murder, as well as extortion and the illegal carrying of weapons. He was formerly a communist guerrilla and he subsequently fought on the side of right wing paramilitaries during Colombia’s 60-year conflict between the government and radical left wing rebels.
Furthermore he struck a deal with Gulf clan leader, Dairo usage who was also in prison, to take control of a group of 200 men inside the cartel authorities said. Duque announced a comprehensive reform of Colombian’s penitentiary and prison system after Estupinan’s escape.
The National penitentiary and prisons instituted been embroiled in several scandals.
