Gaitanista Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AGC) / Gulf Clan
The “Autodefensas Gaitanistas de Colombia” (AGC), a.k.a. “Clan del Golfo” or “Gulf Clan, is Colombia’s most powerful paramilitary group that controls most the country’s drug trade.
The “Autodefensas Gaitanistas de Colombia” (AGC), a.k.a. “Clan del Golfo” or “Gulf Clan, is Colombia’s most powerful paramilitary group that controls most the country’s drug trade.
Following the arrest of “Otoniel,” the central command of paramilitary group AGC, a.k.a. “Clan del Golfo,” will have to choose a new leader. How this process works is unknown as…
Unless Colombia’s government extradites “Otoniel” to the United States, the captured warlord will likely spend the rest of his life in prison. According to the prosecution, the long-time commander of…
Colombia’s most wanted man, paramilitary leader “Otoniel,” has been arrested by the security forces, the government said Saturday. According to newspaper El Colombiano, the commander of paramilitary group AGC was…
Paramilitary groups remained active in almost one in every five of Colombia’s municipalities after the demobilization of paramilitary organization AUC in 2006, according to a think tank. In its annual…
Colombia’s most powerful paramilitary leader has turned the largest manhunt since Pablo Escobar into one of the security forces’ greatest embarrassments. Former President Juan Manuel Santos announced “Operation Agamedon” in…
Police in Cali tried to detain the voluntary bodyguards of journalist Jose Alberto Tejada, who has been suffering harassment after reporting on police brutality in Colombia’s third largest city. In…
The human rights chief of the United Nations expressed her concern on Sunday over collusion between #Colombia’s police and paramilitaries in the mass killing of anti-government protesters. In a statement,…
Paramilitary group “Los Caparrapos” shut down the Bajo Cauca region in northern Colombia, threatening to kill anyone who disobeyed their order to stay inside. The paramilitaries announced the so-called “armed…