Puntilleros
“Los Puntilleros” is the name given to paramilitary groups “Bloque Meta” and “Libertadores de Vichada,” two rival factions of AUC dissident group ERPAC. The Puntilleros is considered a Class A Organized…
“Los Puntilleros” is the name given to paramilitary groups “Bloque Meta” and “Libertadores de Vichada,” two rival factions of AUC dissident group ERPAC. The Puntilleros is considered a Class A Organized…
Oscar Mauricio Pachon, a.k.a. “Puntilla,” was allegedly one of Colombia’s most elusive drug kingpins, the alleged leader of “Los Puntilleros” and patron of many politicians and state officials. Puntilla was born in…
“Bloque Meta” (Meta Bloc) is a paramilitary group from estern Colombia that is considered part of drug trafficking organization “Los Puntilleros.” The group was formed around the 2011 demobilization of ERPAC,…
Colombia has a number of powerful drug trafficking organizations, who have tried to take control of drug trafficking previously controlled by the country’s largest guerrilla group in modern history, the…
Colombia will implement a number of far-stretching measures that seek to cut and prevent ties between the state, private enterprises and paramilitary groups if a deal with leftist FARC rebels is…
The party of Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos was embarrassed on Tuesday when the military arrested a coalition congressman’s assistant with $200,000 in cash, alleged drug money, stashed in the congressman’s car.
Colombia’s police on Sunday announced the arrest of the top boss of neo-paramilitary group “Bloque Meta.” With the arrest of “Jhonatan,” three of Colombia’s main drug trafficking groups lost their leader…
The “Bloque Meta” (Meta Bloc) is a neo-paramilitary drug trafficking organization active in Colombia’s eastern plains.
Former members of demobilized neo-paramilitary group ERPAC have admitted to eating alleged members of rival neo-paramilitary groups, weekly Semana reported on Monday.