US designates Colombia’s biggest drug cartel Gulf Clan as terrorist organization
Marco Rubio calls drug-trafficking militia, present in at least 20 of Colombia’s departments, ‘violent and powerful’The US has designated the Gulf Clan, Colombia’s largest and most powerful illegal armed criminal group, as a foreign terrorist organisation.The notorious drug-trafficking...
<p>Marco Rubio calls drug-trafficking militia, present in at least 20 of Colombia’s departments, ‘violent and powerful’</p><p>The US has designated the Gulf Clan, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/colombia">Colombia</a>’s largest and most powerful illegal armed criminal group, as a foreign terrorist organisation.</p><p>The notorious drug-trafficking militia with its roots in far-right paramilitary forces, is present in at least 20 of Colombia’s departments, and dominates people- and drug-smuggling routes through the Darién Gap. It has also battled unsuccessfully against leftwing rebels for control of criminal networks along the Venezuelan border.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/16/gulf-clan-colombia-us-terrorist-organization">Continue reading...</a>
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