Identify and asses armed groups and criminal actors through the largest database on organized crime in the region. Understand each group’s history and leadership structure, and review in-depth profiles of key criminals.

  • National Liberation Army (ELN)
    The National Liberation Army (Ejército de Liberación Nacional – ELN) is Colombia’s last true insurgency and one of Latin America’s most powerful criminal organizations.
  • Conquering Self Defense Forces of the Sierra Nevada (ACSN)
    The Conquering Self Defense Forces of the Sierra Nevada (Autodefensas Conquistadoras de la Sierra Nevada – ACSN), also known as Los Pachenca, is an armed group that emerged following the demobilization in 2006 of the paramilitary army led by Hernán Giraldo, alias “El Patrón,” on Colombia’s Caribbean coast.
  • José Manuel Sierra Sabogal, alias ‘Zarco Aldinever’
    José Manuel Sierra Sabogal, alias “Zarco Aldinever,” served with the 51st, 52nd, and 26th fronts, in the departments of Meta, Cundinamarca and Boyacá and became one of the top commanders of the FARC’s Eastern Bloc.