Publicado por Verdad Abierta el 29 de agosto de 2020.
Summarizes recent ombudsman (Defensoría) alerts about the threats to the population of southwestern Antioquia department resulting from increased organized crime and neo-paramilitary activity.
August 29, 2020
Caption: “@ArmadaColombia en #Chocó ubicó y destruyó tres áreas campamentarias donde el #ELN procesaba sustancias ilícitas. Los hechos tuvieron lugar en los sectores de Puerto Bolívar, Cabré y Guapagra en el Bajo Baudó.”
June 25, 2020
Publicado por la Fundación Paz y Reconciliación el 10 de junio de 2020.
Examines how Mexican drug trafficking organizations have financed and linked up with Colombian counterparts during the post-accord period.
June 10, 2020
Publicado por 360-grados.co via Verdad Abierta el 9 de junio de 2020.
Sounds the alarm about the growing presence of the Gulf Clan and Pachencas neo-paramilitary groups in three Caribbean coast departments.
June 9, 2020
A refinery (for turning crude oil in to cocaine precursor chemicals) that the Army alleges was run by the ELN in Barbacoas, Nariño.
May 8, 2020
Publicado por Semana el 16 de abril de 2020.
A look at the U.S. military deployment to international waters near Colombia to interdict drugs, the current state of the drug trade, and U.S. pressure on the Venezuelan regime.
April 16, 2020
Publicado por Semana el 8 de abril de 2020.
Semana columnist Salud Hernández-Mora visits sites in Colombia’s Bajo Cauca region where narco-paramilitary leaders had luxurious mansions and victims are forgotten.
April 8, 2020
Publicado por Semana el 7 de abril de 2020.
Semana columnist Salud Hernández-Mora visits sites in the Yarí region of Caquetá department where narcotrafficker Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha, and the FARC, maintained facilities and landing strips.
April 7, 2020
Publicado por la Fundación Paz y Reconciliación el 6 de abril de 2020.
A look at recent changes in Colombia’s cocaine market, coca production, armed group participation, and transshipment patterns.
April 6, 2020
Published by InsightCrime on March 29, 2020.
The multi-part story of alias “Memo Fantasma,” a paramilitary drug trafficker with a long history and a low profile, who appears to have gotten away with it.
March 29, 2020
Publicado por El Comercio el 1 de marzo de 2020.
A look at the security and drug-trafficking situation in the remote zone where Peru borders Colombia, where Peru’s government has declared a state of emergency. Video accompanies an article and multimedia presentation by the Peruvian newspaper El Comercio.
March 1, 2020
