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Security & Strategic Review - December 2011 (ISSN 1741-4202)
Colombia awakens to real size of ‘Bacrim’ threat
The government of President Juan Manuel Santos is sounding even less triumphal than when the army killed ‘Alfonso Cano’ (Guillermo León Sáenz Vargas) the top leader of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) and when several prominent leaders of the new-generation ‘criminal bands’ were captured in recent months. Realisation is spreading, not only that the Farc are still a force to be reckoned with, but that the ‘criminal bands’ pose a far greater threat than was acknowledged when Santos took office in August 2010. Though close to 3,000 members of these bands have been captured in the past year, they have shown a great ability to recruit new members.
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