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Paramilitaries control 25% of Medellins gangs: report
written by Adriaan Alsema October 23, 2017
Paramilitary successor group AGC has allegedly taken control of approximately a quarter of the approximately 1,000 street gangs in Colombia’s second largest city, Medellin.
The Gaitanista Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AGC) have been vying over control in the city of 2.5 million with the Oficina de Envigado, the crime syndicate founded by late drug lord Pablo Escobar.
The prosecution told local newspaper El Colombiano that the group has strategically usurped gangs in some of the most strategic neighborhoods in the periphery of the city.
A history of lawlessness
Medellin’s slums and lower-class neighborhoods for decades have been under control by urban militias and gangs and were unified by Escobar to function as his enforcer army in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
More:
https://colombiareports.com/paramilitaries-control-25-medellins-gangs/
