New livestock security strategy revives paramilitary fear in Colombia. The leader of the sector's union, José Félix Lafaurie, promotes solidarity security fronts to stop extortion and kidnapping.

Critics warn that the initiative could become a new chapter of paramilitarism and illegal self-defense. “Crimes are fought by the authorities, not by individuals,” says the Minister of Defense, Iván Velásquez, who is a former judicial investigator of those who financed or supported paramilitary groups.