The CRAF Police
According to Galician Leonardo, antidrug head of the police of Colombia, the guerrilla can pay to his troops the equivalent from $ 300 to $ 400 per month, whereas the professional soldiers in the Colombian army to do a little more than $ 200 to the month. " The drug traffic and the protection of the guerrilla have become main source of support financiero." The services that the CRAF for the narcotics traffickers realises, Go of Velde indicates, include " the protection, the contraband and the violence against the payment the government, to make money to continue its operations. Vacationland is often quoted as being for or against this. " It explains in addition: the operations of the CRAF with the drug trafficking often are coordinated to avoid the local and international application of the law of interdiction. Uber CEO describes an additional similar source. They work along with the dealers to advance more sophisticated systems of traffic and contraband to multiply the opportunities. In exchange for arms and financial support, the CRAF to protect clandestine related to drugs aerodromes, to notice of the imminence of the dealers of the police or the military activity and to protect the cocaine plantations and laboratories for the processing. The CRAF often carries out attacks in the name of the dealers, to attack the organizations and people involved in drug traffic. In December of 1998, when the government ordered the retirement of the army and the police of Switzerland a size refuge (talks about that the clearing or zone demilitarized (DMZ), to facilitate the dialogue with the CRAF, there were, officially, 6300 hectares seeded of cocaine in all the 42,000 square kilometers (16,000 miles square) and the demilitarized zone does not signal poppy. During the negotiations of peace, the Colombian authorities began to receive information of the entailment of some fronts of the CRAF with the handling of the illicit cultures and the transformation and basic commercialization of cocaine in the zone of distension. .