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Weekly Report - 20 September 2018 (WR-18-37)

COLOMBIA: New ‘chuzadas’ scandal emerges

A new scandal involving the illegal wiretapping of mobile phones (locally known as ‘chuzadas’) of high-profile government officials has broken out in Colombia. The country has been here before on numerous occasions in recent years, raising concerns that the authorities have yet to come to grips with the practice. The fact that the new scandal implicates a previously respected former police chief suggests that this is an intractable security problem that the authorities may struggle to resolve in the medium term.

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