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STEINITZ, Mark
The Terrorism and Drug Connection in Latin America´sAndean Region
2002
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
colombia, senderlo luminoso, terrorism, narco traffiking
Resumen:
| MONEY FROM THE ILLICIT DRUG TRADE has increasingly helped to finance |
| terrorist groups worldwide, but perhaps nowhere has this development |
| been more significant than in Latin America’s Andes.1 In recent years, |
| funding derived from the cocaine and heroin industry has largely underwritten the |
| terrorism of that troubled region. |
| The principal Andean leftist groups with drug connections are the Armed |
| Revolutionary Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the Peruvian Shining Path |
| (Sendero Luminoso [SL]). Colombian right-wing terrorists, referred to |
| collectively as paramilitaries, also have longstanding ties to traffickers. Since |
| 1997, the paramilitaries have often been known by the name of their main |
| umbrella organization, the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC). |
| The drug-related money of these rural-based terrorists has come primarily |
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