Former paramilitary bosses to resume testimonies before Colombia’s 2026 elections
Colombia’s government plans to reveal paramilitary testimonies that could cost the heads of...
Tag: AUC demobilization
Colombia’s Big Lie: the fake paramilitary demobilization
The fake demobilization of paramilitary organization AUC has been one of the most successful...
Colombia’s government failed to seize AUC paramilitary mining assets for victim compensation
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 Tiempo newspaper on...
How Colombia is trying to prevent a FARC demobilization fraud
When paramilitary umbrella organization AUC demobilized between 2003 and 2006, their...
Only 47 of Colombia’s 30,000 demobilized paramilitaries convicted: report
No more than 47 of approximately 30,000 paramilitaries who demobilized more than a decade ago have...
Release of former drug lords and paramilitaries could threaten Colombia’s fragile peace
The return of notorious drug lord Hector Restrepo Santamaria, aka “Perra loca” to Colombia after...
Colombia indicts 725 ex-paramilitaries for over 22000 war crimes
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...
Santos ‘studying’ paramilitary successors’ request to take part in Colombia peace process
Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos will study paramilitary successor groups’ request to...
Lessons from Colombia’s past: Is the FARC’s demobilization mass suicide?
In the years after Colombia’s largest paramilitary organization AUC demobilized, thousands...
Paramilitary leader freed from jail after completing 8 year sentence
A former AUC paramilitary commander was released from jail after serving eight years for his part...
Unrepentant paramilitary commander given 40 years
A former paramilitary commander was excluded from the transitional justice process Thursday and...
1st wave of demobilized paramilitaries reach end of their sentences
Forty-six incarcerated ex-paramilitaries accused of homicide, forced disappearances, forced...
