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Andean Group - September 2014 (ISSN 1741-4466)
SECURITY: The Farc and Clan Usuga under scrutiny
Following a deadly attack on a police patrol, the government led by President Juan Manuel Santos has accused the country’s main leftist guerrilla group, Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc), of joining forces with Colombia’s largest new criminal gang (Bacrim), ‘Clan Usuga’, to attack the security forces and of striking a formal alliance that would allow the Clan Usuga to expand its drug trafficking activities across national territory. If such suspicions are confirmed, it would represent a major new threat, both to national security and also to the current peace process with the Farc.
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