Spotlight - Government negotiations with gangs and organized crime

Abstract

Criminal armed groups (CAGs) manifest through multiple forms in Colombia. While the paramilitary heir bacrims (criminal gangs) benefitted from the criminal operations and infrastructures left by the right-wing paramilitary group that officially demobilized in 2003-2006,1 they are by no means the only form of such illicit, organized, armed activity currently operating within the country.