Dandeny Muñoz Mosquera

Who is Dandeny Muñoz Mosquera?

Dandeny Muñoz Mosquera, also known as "La Quica", was purported to be the chief assassin for the Medellín Cartel of Colombia. He was responsible for the deaths of an unknown number of people, supposedly murdering members of both the Medellín Cartel and the rival Cali Cartel, as well as police officers and government officials. Among his crimes is the 1989 bombing of Avianca Flight 203, which killed 110 civilians.

Some people have doubted about his guilt in the plane attack. The media in Colombia blamed this incident on Pablo Escobar and his associates as he was allegedly responsible for nearly all of the major attacks in the drug war, as the result of being a public enemy in America, who was pressuring Colombia to fight the drug trade.

In 1991, Muñoz Mosquera was arrested in Queens, New York for traveling with a fake passport. He was convicted and sentenced to six years in jail. While he was in jail, federal prosecutors claimed that he was a major player in the Medellín Cartel and the bombing of Avianca Flight 203. Muñoz Mosquera was charged with “conspiracy to import and distribute cocaine, substantive importation of cocaine, participating and conspiring to participate in a racketeering enterprise, engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise, various offenses relating to the bombing of a civilian airliner and the extraterritorial murder of two citizens of the United States." His first trial was declared a mistrial. In his second trial, he was convicted on all counts and sentenced to 10 life sentences plus 45 years, all to be served consecutively. He is currently incarcerated at ADX Florence.