Posted by Brandon Barrett | Jun 4, 2012 | News
Six members of the Colombian armed forces were sentenced to prison Monday for their role in the death of a mentally disabled man in 2008, after he was falsely presented as a guerrilla soldier killed in combat. During the...
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez assured authorities Monday that arrested druglord Diego Perez Henao, alias “Diego Rastrojo,” will be returned to the Andean nation promptly to face charges. Rastrojo was the military...
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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...
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Colombian leftist group the FARC denied that they released a statement Friday in support of a constitutional reform known as the Legal Framework for Peace that would give legal benefits to demobilized guerrillas and...
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Colombia’s Supreme Court sentenced former congressman Mario Salomon Nader to seven and a half years in prison for his ties to paramilitary group the AUC. Nader was found responsible for receiving political and electoral...
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