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This article focuses on the spillover from the conflict in Colombia and the associated impact on each of the five countries bordering the country. The author states that the crisis in Colombia is not just a question of extraterritorial armed combat across frontiers with illegal drug traffickers, leftist insurgents and rightist paramilitary groups, but goes further. The paper states that every conflict has global, political, economic, social and security implications including trade disruption, the growth of criminal organizations, refugee flows, violent clashes and local and regional political instability.