Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s Office announced Tuesday it will order some 40 politicians from the northwest of the country to respond to accusations that they had ties to the local paramilitary…
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…
Colombia’s Supreme Court ruled Friday that a group of victims who suffered at the hands of an AUC front will have their pending compensation benefits suspended. Victims of the AUC’s Jose…
Colombian authorities exhumed the bodies of five paramilitary victims in the central Antioquia department on Friday. The army accompanied a prosecution unit from the “Justice and Peace” program to three graves…
More than 11,000 Colombian politicians, state officials, businessmen and citizens are facing accusations of being accomplices to paramilitary groups, said research group Verdad Abierta Thursday. “We asked the Prosecutor General’s…
An estimated 700 emails from the computer of former AUC commander and drug lord Vicente Castaño revealed the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and many top Colombian politicians may have…
Colombia’s Supreme Court on Wednesday dropped a criminal case against Bogota’s mayor Gustavo Petro who was being investigated for allegedly bribing a paramilitary fighter who had implicated former President Alvaro Uribe…
Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s Office warned Tuesday that 1,500 demobilized paramilitaries could be released in 2013 without having been investigated for human rights violations. As part of the 2005 widely-criticized Justice…
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…