Colombia suspends ceasefire with the Gulf Clan

On 31 December 2022, the government had announced that it had reached a bilateral ceasefire with the Gulf Clan as well as rebels of the National Liberation Army (ELN) and dissidents from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) among others. But this past week, President Petro has accused the Gulf Clan of breaking the ceasefire, blaming it for an attack on an aqueduct and saying it had incited protests from informal gold miners. Colombian President Gustavo Petro has now suspended a ceasefire with the country’s main drug trafficking cartel, the Gulf Clan. Why is it so hard to tackle international drug cartels ?