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As of 2023, the United States of America OSAC Country Security Report advises that travelers reconsider visiting Colombia due to crime and terrorism. The report assesses Bogota a critical-threat location and Cartagena as a high-threat location. [1]
Travelers who decide to visit Jamaica, Colombia, or any country with safety risks are urged to enroll in the State Department’s free Smart Travel Enrollment Program, read the destination’s ...
The largest paramilitary organization, the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia—AUC), [1] had an estimated 10,600 members. [ citation needed ] It operated as a loose confederation of disparate paramilitary groups, the largest of which was the Peasant Self-Defense Forces of Córdoba and Urabá (Autodefensas ...
The Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC) was established by the Diplomatic Security Service of the United States Department of State in 1985 as a mechanism for sharing security information between the U.S. private sector and the U.S. government. [2] The FBI Criminal Investigative Division (CID) began to advise OSAC
Colombia's four main illegal armed groups grew during 2023 as they consolidated territorial control financed by drug trafficking and illicit gold extraction, according to a secret security report ...
Across Colombia, decades of war between leftist guerrillas, rightwing paramilitaries, trafficking groups and the government have left more than 9.5 million people – nearly 20% of the population ...
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The report shows that the humanitarian crisis in Colombia is extremely serious in terms of both lethal and nonlethal violence. The report examines the widespread use of sexual violence against women and girls as a weapon of war, as well as the invisibility of this phenomenon.