Security & Strategic Review - March 2012 (ISSN 1741-4202)

COLOMBIA | More on growth of Bacrims. In the latest of its periodical reports on the spread of what the government calls Bacrims (bandas criminales; criminal bands), the private Instituto de Estudio para el Desarrollo y la Paz (Indepaz) reports that these (which it prefers to call narcoparamilitares) are now present in 31 of Colombia’s 32 departments. Whereas in 2008 their presence had been reported in 259 municipalities, by 2011 the number had risen to 406, covering, by Indepaz’s estimate, almost 40% of the national territory. 

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