The Colombian government has definitively “closed the door” to the possibility of future demobilized fighters being able to participate in politics. The Interior Minister German Vargas Lleras said the proposed…
Colombian business leaders lobbied Congress to pass 2005 legislation leading to the demobilization of paramilitary organization AUC, a demobilized member told Caracol Radio Tuesday. “Gonzalo,” the political chief for one…
Former Colombian president Alvaro Uribe denied conspiracy to discredit the Supreme Court, during the trial of a former AUC leader’s lawyer Monday. Uribe testified in front of a Bogota court:…
Two frontmen for demobilized paramilitary leader “Jorge 40” have been arrested over illegal land grabs carried out a decade ago, Colombian newspaper El Espectador reported Friday. The two members of the now…
Former AUC leader Salvatore Mancuso told Colombia’s Supreme Court Monday that former Congress President Javier Caceres sought paramilitary support in 2003. Mancuso told the court that Caceres met with paramilitary…
A former senator admitted in front of Colombia’s Supreme Court of meeting with guerrilla and paramilitary groups, but claimed it was with government approval. Ex-parliamentary Vicente Blel defended the former-President…
Salvatore Mancuso, a former leader of paramilitary group the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), was charged with numerous crimes Thursday for his suspected role in over 100 criminal acts, local…
Hundreds of women were raped and abused by paramilitaries in the AUC’s northern bloc between 1997 and 2005, reveals a new report documenting sexual violence in Colombia’s Caribbean region. “Women…
A former Colombian senator was banned from holding public office for 20 years on Wednesday because of his association with paramilitaries. Colombia’s Inspector General, Alejandro Ordoñez Maldonado, dismissed ex-Senator Luis…