The fake demobilization of paramilitary organization AUC has been one of the most successful hoaxes of master conman and Colombia’s former President, Alvaro Uribe. The former Medellin Cartel associate claims…
Colombia’s government failed to account for an excess of $137 million made by the now-defunct AUC paramilitary organization through mining, which should have been used for victim reparation, reported El…
When paramilitary umbrella organization AUC demobilized between 2003 and 2006, their demobilization benefited numerous unaffiliated drug traffickers. Demobilized former FARC guerrillas are now helping to prevent a repetition in their…
No more than 47 of approximately 30,000 paramilitaries who demobilized more than a decade ago have since been convicted of war crimes, reported Colombia’s leading newspaper El Tiempo Thursday. The “Justice…
The return of notorious drug lord Hector Restrepo Santamaria, aka “Perra loca” to Colombia after serving five years in a US prison has stoked fears of growing activity in Colombia’s…
Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s Office indicted 725 former members of paramilitary group AUC for over 22,000 crimes 10 years after the group officially disbanded. The charges were filed in accordance with the country’s Justice…
Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos will study paramilitary successor groups’ request to take part in an ongoing peace process with Marxist guerrillas, according to the governor of the Antioquia province. The…
In the years after Colombia’s largest paramilitary organization AUC demobilized, thousands of its demobilized members were assassinated. FARC rebels, currently negotiating peace with the government, could await the same fate.
A former AUC paramilitary commander was released from jail after serving eight years for his part in several massacres in northern Colombia.