Thousands of Children Recruited by Armed Groups in Colombia

The Washington Hispanic

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Pablo Escobar formed during the 1980s an army of poor teenagers willing to kill police, politicians and magistrates. With the money of drug trafficking he convinced them to commit horrific crimes, an inheritance that is still alive in Colombia. This type of crimes, common in the time of the capo killed in 1993, returned to the memory of the country this week, after the assassination attempt of aspiring president Miguel Uribe while meeting Saturd…

César Miguel Rondón

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We return to the years when crime tried to subdue, through chaos and terror, the State Published in: ABC By: Carlos Granés Colombia has receded in history thirty, forty years, to those times when politicians fell from the stands shot down by child assassins. It seemed that democracy, despite not having eradicated the violence altogether, had managed to resist the attempts of Pablo Escobar, the FARC and the paramilitaries to bend or corrupt the i…

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The mayor of Bucaramanga, Jaime Andrés Beltrán, told Q’hubo that in the last capture of six members of the criminal gang ‘Los Búcaros’, who pretended to be the Aragua Train, the authorities realized that they were mostly young people under the age of 21. “They are young people who, because of their criminal activity, one can interpret that they started in the criminal world when they were minors. They already used firearms, and they themselves f…