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Weekly Report - 4 April 2013 (WR-13-13)
COLOMBIA: Confronting the ‘atomised’ Bacrims
President Juan Manuel Santos and his defence minister, Juan Carlos Pinzón, are claiming that the neo-paramilitary organisations they call ‘Bacrims’ (for ‘bandas criminales’, or criminal bands) are on their last legs. At a late March session of the security council held in Santa Marta, on the Caribbean coast, Santos said that the only Bacrim that still has a countrywide presence is Los Urabeños. Their main rivals, Los Rastrojos, are “ever more reduced”, he said.
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