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Security & Strategic Review July 2011 (ISSN 1741-4202)
COLOMBIA: Bacrims as a threat to the elections
Colombia’s forthcoming departmental and municipal elections, due on 30 October, will be ‘the first test of how democratic institutions under the government of President Juan Manuel Santos cope with the growing power of new illegal armed groups and paramilitary successors [...] now acknowledged as the country’s biggest security threat.’ This challenge is highlighted in a study recently published by the Brussels-based International Crisis Group (ICG).
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- REGION: UN fails to fill gaps in data on cocaine
- MEXICO: Trying to gauge the extent of 'collateral damage’
- MEXICO: Another black hole: kidnapping & disappearances
- MEXICO-US: Has targeting top cartel bosses been effective?
- COLOMBIA: Bacrims as a threat to the elections
- POINTERS
- BRAZIL-REGION: Flying start for the new 'border strategy’
- POINTERS
- GUATEMALA: High-profile killings obscure blow against Zetas
- POINTERS