Libertadores del Vichada
COLOMBIA /
23 APR 2021
The Libertadores del Vichada are a splinter group of the Popular Revolutionary Anti-Terrorist Army of Colombia.
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COLOMBIA
COCAINE /
30 AUG 2016
The Colombian government claims it has forced the country's main criminal organization out of the remote Eastern Plains region, but the area's strategic value as a cocaine production and trafficking…
COLOMBIA /
15 JUL 2016
Colombian authorities captured yet another drug boss in the country's lucrative Eastern Plains, keeping up the pressure on criminal organizations that are also busy fighting each other over key illicit…
COLOMBIA /
26 JAN 2016
One of Colombia's most powerful criminal organizations could be moving into new territory in the eastern part of the country in an attempt to fill the vacuum left by the…
COLOMBIA /
29 SEP 2015
Police have killed a major drug trafficker operating in Colombias eastern region, possibly creating a power vacuum along important drug transit corridors leading to neighboring Venezuela and Brazil.
COLOMBIA /
20 AUG 2014
A former paramilitary known as "Pijarbey" is rebuilding the drug empire of fragmented trafficking group the ERPAC in Colombia's Eastern Plains, and is now positioning himself to become a major…
COLOMBIA /
2016-11-07 21:59:53
Martin Farfan Diaz Gonzalez, alias "Pijarbey" was a powerful criminal operative in Colombia's Eastern Plains region.
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