Organised crime is biggest security and humanitarian threat to Colombia - U.N.

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5. The difference between us is that you read whatever somebody

else chooses to post and believes it based on nothing more than your preconceived notions. I maintain extremely close ties with Colombia after living and working there for more than 20 years and so actually know what I'm talking about. Colombian criminal gangs have been around forever - trying to label them now as "prior paramilitaries" is sophism at its worst. Some criminals undoubtedly became paramilitaries (or used the label of paramilitary to justify their criminality) but to now try and pretend that these criminal organizations are somehow a reincarnation or a direct offshoot of the paramilitary movement is both tendentious and false.