Infiltrados

Interessante (e breve) artigo de Elizabeth Dickinson para a Foreign Affairs sobre como novas gangues do crime organizado estão ameaçando a legitimidade das eleições colombianas. O declínio dos paramilitares e da guerrilha levou criminosos a se reestruturarem em novos grupos armados que estão disputam o controle territorial da produção e do transporte da droga por meio da cooptação de candidatos. Trecho:

Colombia's fight against organized crime is in flux; the traditional actors in the conflict, leftist guerrillas, who contested the state, and right-wing paramilitaries, who co-opted government institutions in response, have been respectively dilapidated and disarmed. As welcome news as this may be, it also means that all bets are off in the criminal world over who will control Colombia's lucrative cocaine exports. Whichever armed groups win control of local territory and influence would be able to consolidate their gains in the coming months and years. [...] Now, a new set of bacrim gangs, with names such as the Rastrojos, the Urabeños, and the Paisas, has cropped up in the vacuum left by FARC's demise, capturing illicit trade routes. Every one of these groups will try to "win" the elections in its own way.