REPUTED JAILED DRUGLORD SLAIN IN A VENDETTA-STYLE SHOOTING

BOGOTA, COLOMBIA -- Another reputed druglord was killed inside a Colombian
prison Friday, and the gunman was a brother of a jailed Cali cartel drug
boss killed in a recent gangland-style murder, authorities said.

Police identified the latest victim as Jose Orlando Henao Montoya, 45. He
was a suspected leader of the Norte del Valle drug gang, which has been
linked in local media reports to the Nov. 5 killing of Helmer Herrera, one
of the leaders of the Cali drug cartel.

He was shot six times in the head by Jose Manuel Herrera Moncada -- a
fellow inmate and brother of the slain Cali drug kingpin -- who somehow
managed to get a .38-caliber pistol, police and prison officials said.

They said the crime had all the hallmarks of a personal vendetta to avenge
the murder of Herrera.

Jose Manuel Herrera was wounded while carrying out the attack, apparently
by another prisoner wielding a knife, but spokesmen for the National
Prisons Institute said they were unable to comment on his exact condition.

Helmer Herrera, 47, was considered one of the top three members of Cali
drug mob, which once controlled up to 80 percent of the world's cocaine
trade.

He was shot seven times in the head by a gunman masquerading as a lawyer in
the Palmira prison near Cali.