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Professor of International Relations at the Curitiba University Center and actor of the book The Colombians, Andrew Traumann evaluates DW that the attacks go back to strategies to ward off police from the centers controlled by drug trafficking. EMC, Eln and Clan Del Golfo, quite fragmented groups, vie for the estate of Cali and Medellin cartels. “This is a tactic that guerrillas used in the 1990s, especially the FARC themselves, to use bombs in small barracks,” he says.