Kidnapping, extortion, robbery, and murder are commonplace.
Kidnapping, extortion and drug-trafficking rings are run from the jails by mobile phone.
He also faces charges of racketeering, kidnapping, extortion and several other serious crimes.
He was also wanted for criminal association, kidnapping, extortion and other crimes.
The detainees are accused of offenses like kidnapping, extortion and taking part in organized crime.
And with the cartels come other nightmares: kidnapping, extortion, contract killers and people trafficking.
The FARC makes money through kidnapping, extortion and the lucrative drug trade.
In the 1980s the FARC turned to drug-trafficking, kidnapping, extortion and, more recently, illegal gold mining to finance itself.
Most Colombians fear and condemn the FARC, whose 18,000-strong army is financed by kidnapping, extortion and drugs.
The Zetas traffic drugs, but their specialties are kidnapping, extortion, murder, robbery, human smuggling, and product piracy.
The report notes that drug organizations have atomized into a range of gangs carrying out kidnapping, extortion and other crimes.
