Colombia, corporate mercenaries, and int'l law. Please send comments and replies directly to Ross Regnart . Thanks to Ross for sending this along. In Colombian Increasingly, U.S. corporations contract in other countries, private security forces to protect their corporate interests. Private security forces often constitute several hundred people.
Members are often former military personnel, intelligence officers, and other assets.
Private security corporations now work so closely with U.S. Government agencies that they appear to merge. Recent publications have stated the US Government intends to pay private contractors to train in Colombia, private and Colombian security forces. It is foreseeable that the Colombian government may not wish to compensate victims. In effect, acting like gangsters abroad.