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Andean Group - December 2009 (ISSN 1741-4466)
SECURITY: Democratic security policy faltering?
President Alvaro Uribe's hardline 'Democratic Security' policy has
hit a ceiling in terms of results and is now in decline, according to a recent
report published by a think-tank in Bogotá. The Fundación Nuevo Arco Iris argues
that the country's main guerrilla group, the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de
Colombia (Farc), has increased its activity; that the smaller Ejército de
Liberación Nacional (ELN) is undergoing a renaissance; and that emerging
criminal groups, or 'new' paramilitaries, are increasingly active. Uribe's
government, whose popularity is founded on the success of its get-tough security
strategy, says that the report's findings were exaggerated for political
ends.
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