Paramilitary groups in Colombia organization
also: paramilitary organizations, paramilitary leaders, paramilitary auxiliaries, paramilitary warlords
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FARCorganization · 3Narco Eliteorganization · 3War on Drugsevent · 2Colombiacountry · 2Assassination of 5,000 activists and leadersevent · 1Wealthy Drug Baronsorganization · 1Key Financial Figuresorganization · 1Senior Government Bureaucratsorganization · 1High-Ranking Military Officersorganization · 1Peasantsorganization · 1FARC Alleged Involvement in Drug Traffickingorganization · 1Main Findingorganization · 1Paramilitary Groups in Collaboration with Wealthy Drug Baronsorganization · 1Not the FARCorganization · 1Complicit Role with the CIA in Drug Traffickingorganization · 1Cocaine Decadeorganization · 1United States Armed Forcesorganization · 1Colombian Armyorganization · 1Colombian Stateorganization · 1
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Affairs found no evidence of FARC involvement in drug trafficking, but its main finding pointed to an extensive drug smuggling into the U.S. by the paramilitary groups in collaboration with wealthy drug barons, the military, key financial f…
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That's basically what it boils down to. Okay. The Colombian narco elite at the profit end of the cocaine commodity chain is also determined to defend its political and economic interests through their insurgency strategy, which involves the…
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Members of the narco elite, the cartels, the high-ranking military officers, and the paramilitary leaders would take the land closest to the controlled FARC to drive them off and kill their support base. This insurgency strategy has been co…
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and much of rural Colombia is part of the FARC's resistance to U.S. imperialism. Colombia's cocaine decade coincided with a period of intensified political activity on behalf of the U.S. via MAS, which was the paramilitary narco-state creat…
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or Laos in the 1960s. Our principal proxy in 2001 and 2002 during the Afghan war was a dominant element in regional drug traffic. In Colombia also, we were fighting a war supposedly on drugs, but in fact financed by drugs. There was a drug …
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In 2001, Colombian government sources estimated that 40% of Colombian cocaine exports were controlled by paramilitary warlords and their trafficking allies that had been set up by the CIA. Meanwhile, the amount controlled by the Revolutiona…