ERPAC

Óscar Mauricio Pachón, alias “Puntilla,” was a drug trafficker who controlled a criminal network n Colombia’s strategic Eastern Plains region.

Colombia Colombia Personalities

Óscar Mauricio Pachón, alias ‘Puntilla’

by InSight Crime 7 Dec 201810 Oct 2023

ERPAC

by InSight Crime 10 Mar 20174 Oct 2023

Pedro Oliverio Guerrero, alias ‘Cuchillo’

by InSight Crime 10 Mar 201724 Apr 2023

Jose Eberto Lopez Montero, alias ‘Caracho’

by InSight Crime 9 Mar 201710 Oct 2023

Martin Farfan Diaz Gonzalez, alias "Pijarbey" was a powerful criminal operative in Colombia's Eastern Plains region

Colombia Colombia Personalities

Martin Farfan Diaz Gonzalez, alias ‘Pijarbey’

by InSight Crime 7 Nov 201610 Oct 2023

Arrested criminal boss "Puntilla" PachÃ³n

Colombia’s Wild East: a Cocaine Hub Without a Capo

by Mimi Yagoub 30 Aug 201624 Apr 2023

ERPAC paramilitaries demobilizing

Brief

Latest Colombia Drug Boss Arrested in Ongoing Crackdown

by Mimi Yagoub 15 Jul 201624 Apr 2023

Alias "Puntilla" was arrested on February 26

Brief

Colombia’s Eastern Plains Up for Grabs After Drug Lord Capture

by Mimi Yagoub 1 Mar 201624 Apr 2023

Colombia's BACRIM are expanding, says ombudsman's office

Brief

Colombia’s BACRIM Expand as FARC Talks Peace

by Marguerite Cawley 5 Nov 201424 Apr 2023

Deputy Attorney General Jorge Fernando Perdomo

Brief

Colombia Legal Reform to Aid Mass Surrender of Criminal Groups

by Kyra Gurney 13 Oct 201424 Apr 2023

The most recent image of Pijarbey

Narco-Paramilitary Boss Pijarbey Set to Be Major Colombian Kingpin

by Kyra Gurney 20 Aug 201424 Apr 2023

A Pacific Rubiales oil tank in Meta, Colombia

Brief

Colombia Network Provided Stolen Fuel to Eastern Plains Narco-Paramilitaries

by Kyra Gurney 18 Jul 201424 Apr 2023

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