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Special - The "Victory" of the Urabeños: The New Face of Colombian Organized Crime (Web/PDF)

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Weekly InSight | 9 May 2014

Special - The "Victory" of the Urabeños: The New Face of Colombian Organized Crime (Web/PDF)

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The Urabeños - The Criminal Hybrid

The mad scramble for criminal power in the aftermath of the demobilization of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) is over. The Urabeños, or as they prefer to call themselves, the "Autodefensas Gaitanistas de Colombia," have won.

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The BACRIM and Their Position in Colombia's Underworld

The name BACRIM was created by the government of former President Alvaro Uribe in the aftermath of the demobilization of the AUC. Then-President Uribe was keen to draw a line in the sand, to avoid undermining the AUC peace process. For this reason, any drug trafficking organizations post-2006 were not to be considered paramilitary groups, but rather, "criminal bands," (for the Spanish "bandas criminales" – BACRIM). 

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    massacresParamilitaries were responsible for the vast majority of thousands of massacres perpetrated in Colombia since 1982. 

    urabenosinfluenceMap showing how area of influence ofColombia's Urabeños criminal group had expanded by 2013. 

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