Publicado por Verdad Abierta el 9 de diciembre de 2020.
One of a three-part series about the Bajo Cauca region of Antioquia department.
December 9, 2020
La Guerra ‘Fratricida’ que Tiene en Vilo a una Región
Tag: Organized Crime
Una máquina paramilitar intimida a Santa Marta
Publicado por La Liga Contra el Silencio el 3 de diciembre de 2020.
Warnings of security deterioration in the Caribbean city due to the presence of criminal groups that can trace their heritage back to the old AUC paramilitaries.
December 3, 2020
Una trama criminal rodea la masacre de Llano Verde
Publicado por La Liga Contra el Silencio el 26 de octubre de 2020.
Contends that an entire web of uninvestigated organized-crime activity lies behind the August 11 massacre of five minors in a marginal Cali neighborhood.
October 26, 2020
Los impactos del covid-19 en la seguridad y la implementación del Acuerdo de Paz
Publicado por la Fundación Ideas para la Paz el 26 de octubre de 2020.
A look at the security situation amid the health crisis in Catatumbo, southern Córdoba, and Antioquia’s northeast and Bajo Cauca regions.
October 26, 2020
El covid y una venganza contribuyeron a acabar “la paz” en Tumaco
Publicado por La Silla Vacía el 21 de octubre de 2020.
A non-aggression pact between criminal groups has broken in the embattled port city in southwest Colombia.
October 21, 2020
Seguridad en Tiempos de Pandemia: Legados de Guerra y Crimen Organizado en Colombia
Publicado por la Fundación Paz y Reconciliación el 14 de septiembre de 2020.
The annual security situation overview produced by researchers at Bogotá’s Fundación Paz y Reconciliación.
September 14, 2020
La ‘Oficina’ y ‘Gaitanistas’ afectan la vida cotidiana en el Suroeste antioqueño
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
‘La Voz de San José’ que no puede hablar en el sur de Córdoba
Publicado por La Liga Contra el Silencio el 12 de agosto de 2020.
Journalists who would report on the severe violence in San José de Uré, southern Córdoba, are silenced.
August 12, 2020
Regresaron las masacres: ¿Qué pasa en Colombia? ¿Por qué volvió el terror a las regiones?
Publicado por Semana el 30 de julio de 2020.
Colombia has suffered four massacres in the previous two weeks.
July 30, 2020
La guerra contra la minería ilegal
Publicado por Semana el 28 de julio de 2020.
Illegal mining is worsening in Chocó’s Atrato River basin.
July 28, 2020
Las guerras del Eln por dominar la frontera venezolana en Norte de Santander
Publicado por Verdad Abierta el 27 de julio de 2020.
The ELN is the largest of several armed groups operating, and mostly fighting each other bitterly, along the border between Norte de Santander department and Venezuela.
July 27, 2020
Criminalidad en la Guajira: ¿quién es Marquitos Figueroa? ¿qué hizo Kiko Gómez?
Publicado por Semana el 22 de julio de 2020.
A narco-criminal organization has taken control of politics and corruption in La Guajira, one of Colombia’s poorest departments.
July 22, 2020
Por lo menos 140 bandas criminales ponen en riesgo la vida en Medellín
Publicado por Verdad Abierta el 21 de julio de 2020.
An overview, relying on studies from the Defensoría, of recent criminal gang dynamics in Medellín.
July 21, 2020
Presunta red de tráfico de armas involucraría sectores del ejército
Publicado por Semana el 18 de junio de 2020.
Revelations about a network of military personnel involved in weapons trafficking to criminal groups.
June 18, 2020
June 16, 2020
Carlos Lehder, a top leader of the Medellín cartel in the 1980s who pioneered aerial cocaine transshipment to the United States, completes a lengthy sentence in U.S. prison. A dual citizen of Germany, the 70-year-old Lehder departs for Berlin.
June 16, 2020
June 14, 2020
The daily El Espectador reveals the existence of “Code Black,” a corruption network within the U.S.-funded Antinarcotics Directorate of Colombia’s National Police. Starting in 2017, police whistleblowers began denouncing embezzlement and a scheme to use wiretaps to shake down narcotraffickers for money. The Prosecutor-General’s Office’s (Fiscalía’s) investigation has since moved very slowly.
June 14, 2020
Radiografía de la ominosa presencia de los carteles mexicanos
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
Presencia de carteles mexicanos en Colombia: ¿seguridad en jaque?
Publicado por Semana el 10 de junio de 2020.
A discussion with experts about the activities of Mexican criminal organizations in Colombia.
June 10, 2020
El fantasma del narcoparamilitarismo que ronda a Cesar, Magdalena y La Guajira
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
Forced Disappearance in the Borderland: Unveiling Victims’ Invisibility in Norte de Santander
Published by SSRN on June 5, 2020.
U.S. researchers explore forced disappearance and other security dynamics at the Colombia-Venezuela border region in Norte de Santander department.
June 5, 2020
Líderes sociales del Catatumbo: todas las armas les apuntan
Publicado por El Espectador el 7 de mayo de 2020.
A look at threats faced by social leaders in the Catatumbo region, with a thorough mapping of the security situation and illicit economies in each of 10 municipalities.
May 7, 2020
Desaparición forzada y terror en la frontera colombo-venezolana
Publicado por Semana el 5 de mayo de 2020.
The security and human rights situation amid fighting between armed groups along the Colombia-Venezuela border.
May 5, 2020
Tres municipios de Meta en alto riesgo por masiva presencia de grupos armados
Publicado por Verdad Abierta el 30 de abril de 2020.
A summary of findings, from the Ombudsman’s Office’s early warning system, about the dire situation in Puerto López, Puerto Gaitán, and Cabuyaro.
April 30, 2020
April 28, 2020
A presidential decree lowers judicial penalties to members of criminal groups who agree to demobilize peacefully and submit to the High Commissioner for Peace.
It does not apply to the ELN, whose “political character” the state recognizes, making benefits available to individual ELN deserters. It applies instead to FARC dissident groups, the Gulf Clan and Caparros neo-paramilitary groups, and the Pelusos or EPL. These are the groups that, according to the government, meet the Geneva Conventions Protocol II definition of those “which, under responsible command, exercise such control over a part of its territory as to enable them to carry out sustained and concerted military operations.”
April 28, 2020
April 9, 2020
Police capture Abel Antonio Loaiza Quiñonez, alias “Azul”, whom the Prosecutor-General’s Office holds responsible for the killing and forced displacement of 11 social leaders and former FARC combatants in Putumayo, mainly in Puerto Guzmán municipality. “Azul,” allegedly a member of a local FARC dissident group, was instrumental in a string of rural social leader killings that the magazine Semana called “the caravan of death.”
April 9, 2020