HomeThe OrganizationGaitanistas Refuse to Let Otoniel Go Quietly
Gaitanistas Refuse to Let Otoniel Go Quietly
THE ORGANIZATION

Gaitanistas Refuse to Let Otoniel Go Quietly

13 MAY 2022 BY INSIGHT CRIME EN

InSight Crime’s continuing coverage of the extradition of Otoniel has become a reference point for Latin American and international media. Otoniel was the last in Colombia’s old guard of drug traffickers. Having begun as a left-wing guerrilla, transformed into a right-wing paramilitary, he then headed up the Gaitanistas, Colombia’s most powerful drug trafficking organization with some 2,000 members. 

The World interviewed InSight Crime’s Jeremy McDermott on the nationwide campaign of violence carried out by the Gaitanistas, also known as the Gulf Clan, Urabeños, and Gaitanist Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (Autodefensas Gaitanistas de Colombia – AGC), in the wake of Otoniel’s extradition. BBC News and El Colombiano also referred to our analysis in their coverage. 

READ ABOUT: The wider consequences of Otoniel’s fall


share icon icon icon

What are your thoughts? Click here to send InSight Crime your comments.

We encourage readers to copy and distribute our work for non-commercial purposes, with attribution to InSight Crime in the byline and links to the original at both the top and bottom of the article. Check the Creative Commons website for more details of how to share our work, and please send us an email if you use an article.

Was this content helpful?

We want to sustain Latin America’s largest organized crime database, but in order to do so, we need resources.

DONATE