Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 08/2010

Improving Security Policy in Colombia

June 2010

International Crisis Group

Abstract

President Álvaro Uribe's eight-year military campaign against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) has taken a heavy toll on Colombia's largest insurgent organisation. The government is now working to consolidate security gains by expanding state presence in several of the formerly most conflict-ridden regions.