Friday 24th May 2013,
An alleged army report said alias “Carlos Pesebre,” the captured “leader” of Medellin’s largest crime syndicate Oficina de Envigado, could have been seeking a peace deal with the neo-paramilitary organization Full Article »
Medellin’s High Tribunal on Friday said that the Colombian Army must apologize for not stopping a paramilitary massacre of eight civilians in the northwestern Antioquia department in 2005. The Tribunal Full Article »
A prosecutor who specialized in Colombia’s paramilitary demobilization process was transferred after working in the same department for more than six years, raising fears that years worth of insight could Full Article »
Medellin on Tuesday commemorated the 10th anniversary of Operation Orion, a military offensive in the western Comuna 13 that successfully removed left-wing rebels, but ended up installing paramilitary groups still Full Article »
A Medellin NGO said Sunday that records of an investigation of the extradited former security chief of former President Alvaro Uribe has been stolen. Human rights NGO Instituto Popular de Full Article »
Colombia prosecution has charged former paramilitary commander “Don Berna” with 32 crimes, reported local media Wednesday. Ex-leader of the AUC Paramilitary group Diego Fernando Murillo, alias Don Berna, received the Full Article »
Lawyers of the ex-AUC commander “Macaco” said Monday their client would not continue collaborating with Colombia’s Justice and Peace process without guarantees of legal immunity in the United States. Macaco, Full Article »
Several paramilitary leaders with knowledge of the alleged wiretapping of political officials by the former head of Colombia’s now-dismantled security agency and former President Alvaro Uribe’s chief of staff were Full Article »
Colombia’s former President Alvaro Uribe claimed extradited paramilitary leader Diego Murillo Bejerano, alias “Don Berna,” is plotting to assassinate him. “Authorities informed me that the extradited ‘Don Berna’ would be Full Article »
Local authorities, analysts and statistics clashed with U.K. daily The Guardian Wednesday after the newspaper claimed Medellin’s security improvements over the past ten years had been “blown apart” by drug Full Article »
