Colombia's government today presented the "roadmap" with which they will face in the next four years to the guerrillas and the new paramilitary groups or criminal gangs-BACRIM as officially called, "that are considered by the commander Police Oscar Naranjo, the "biggest threat" to security. The outline of the security policy today introduced the Defense Minister Rodrigo Rivera, to the military and police.
Highlighted as one of its pillars, strengthening intelligence: in quantity, quality, be reinforced by-the-art equipment and training. There is also the application "strategic force." The idea is to maximize and focus it to allow the troop deployment and withdrawal strong. The word "surprise" is vital in this new policy.
It also aims to strengthen command and control and coordination between institutions responsible for security. "A qualitative and quantitative leap in how to plan and coordinate operations," said the minister. The protection of the population - "win the trust and hearts of Colombians" - respect for human rights and international humanitarian law have room in what was announced today.
The new plan of the Colombian State has been named Comprehensive Security Policy and Advocacy for Prosperity. Security replaces Democratic flag of the former government of President Alvaro Uribe. The minister said Rivera, "is an appropriate mix of continuity and change in the management of security, with more ambitious targets and new targets." Ariel Avila, security expert at the Rainbow Foundation, highlights a positive: "The Government recognizes that there are changes in how the war takes, try to upgrade," he told this newspaper.
"We'll see if it works," he added. Democratic Security was in the spotlight, basically, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). "The new strategy is accepted that the factors that affect security are different," says the analyst. And he has another goal in particular stands out: to bring a "historic low" the production of narcotics business that feed the guerrillas and criminal gangs.
Use two tools for this: to dismantle drug trafficking organizations and increase efforts to eradicate illegal crops. The latter two have been severely challenged by high costs, collateral damage and low efficiency. Crops travel the country to the sway of eradication. At this point, Avila is a great vacuum.
The business of retail drug sales-source of violence today in big cities is based on powerful networks of corruption that have infiltrated the state, so far have created tools to attack. The security map map security of this country of 46 million people is complicated. In 293 of the 1,111 municipalities operate the BACRIM, and according to the Rainbow Foundation, have between 9,000 and 11,000 armed men.
The Interior and Justice Minister has warned of a major threat to regional elections next October, they want to impose, by force candidates to serve their interests mobsters. The FARC operates in 246 municipalities, the largest in the country, and have about 12,000 fighters. Lately they have changed tactics, now operate in smaller groups and use more explosives.
To date, this group held hostage to all the inhabitants, some 200 people, a small town in Chocó in the northwest, where the situation tends to get worse because "they are running out of food," said Luis Moreno, the mayor's population , reported Efe. The weekend, in the same area, killing three people because they refused to stop at a checkpoint on the Atrato River.
Colombia has the second largest army in Latin America, almost similar to Brazil. Security spending accounts for 4.2% of GDP and 450,000 men make up the security forces. 
Highlighted as one of its pillars, strengthening intelligence: in quantity, quality, be reinforced by-the-art equipment and training. There is also the application "strategic force." The idea is to maximize and focus it to allow the troop deployment and withdrawal strong. The word "surprise" is vital in this new policy.
It also aims to strengthen command and control and coordination between institutions responsible for security. "A qualitative and quantitative leap in how to plan and coordinate operations," said the minister. The protection of the population - "win the trust and hearts of Colombians" - respect for human rights and international humanitarian law have room in what was announced today.
The new plan of the Colombian State has been named Comprehensive Security Policy and Advocacy for Prosperity. Security replaces Democratic flag of the former government of President Alvaro Uribe. The minister said Rivera, "is an appropriate mix of continuity and change in the management of security, with more ambitious targets and new targets." Ariel Avila, security expert at the Rainbow Foundation, highlights a positive: "The Government recognizes that there are changes in how the war takes, try to upgrade," he told this newspaper.
"We'll see if it works," he added. Democratic Security was in the spotlight, basically, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). "The new strategy is accepted that the factors that affect security are different," says the analyst. And he has another goal in particular stands out: to bring a "historic low" the production of narcotics business that feed the guerrillas and criminal gangs.
Use two tools for this: to dismantle drug trafficking organizations and increase efforts to eradicate illegal crops. The latter two have been severely challenged by high costs, collateral damage and low efficiency. Crops travel the country to the sway of eradication. At this point, Avila is a great vacuum.
The business of retail drug sales-source of violence today in big cities is based on powerful networks of corruption that have infiltrated the state, so far have created tools to attack. The security map map security of this country of 46 million people is complicated. In 293 of the 1,111 municipalities operate the BACRIM, and according to the Rainbow Foundation, have between 9,000 and 11,000 armed men.
The Interior and Justice Minister has warned of a major threat to regional elections next October, they want to impose, by force candidates to serve their interests mobsters. The FARC operates in 246 municipalities, the largest in the country, and have about 12,000 fighters. Lately they have changed tactics, now operate in smaller groups and use more explosives.
To date, this group held hostage to all the inhabitants, some 200 people, a small town in Chocó in the northwest, where the situation tends to get worse because "they are running out of food," said Luis Moreno, the mayor's population , reported Efe. The weekend, in the same area, killing three people because they refused to stop at a checkpoint on the Atrato River.
Colombia has the second largest army in Latin America, almost similar to Brazil. Security spending accounts for 4.2% of GDP and 450,000 men make up the security forces.
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