Exclusive: State Dept. to Designate Colombia’s Clan del Golfo as Terror Organization

The State Department will announce the designation of the Clan del Golfo, a cocaine- and human-trafficking organized criminal militia in Colombia, as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) on Tuesday, Breitbart News learned.

The State Department will also brand the Clan del Golfo a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT), a separate category that imposes distinct sanctions on members and leadership of the terrorist group. Breitbart News first reported the designation exclusively on Tuesday alongside the Colombian newspaper El Tiempo .

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