Colombia’s intelligence agency DAS made an alliance with the paramilitary organization AUC in the 2004 murder of a trade union representative, a court ruled. The court’s decision is the first…
An ex-AUC member could be expelled from Colombia’s Justice and Peace process amid claims that he threatened a lawyer, while he insists he is the victim of a conspiracy orchestrated…
Colombia’s police have seized nearly 900 assets supposedly belonging to ex-paramilitaries, worth an estimated value of around $8.5 million, La F.M. reported Monday. Authorities seized 883 assets in total, of…
A Federal judge in Florida said Friday that a lawsuit filed against banana company Chiquita by 4,000 family members of Colombians killed by paramilitaries is allowed to move forward. U.S.…
Chiquita Brands International is facing a mass lawsuit filed on behalf of the family members of over 4,000 victims of paramilitaries, alleging that the banana corporation is liable due to…
Conservative Party politician and former Congress President Luis Humberto Gomez Gallo on Wednesday was sentenced to nine years in jail for his ties to paramilitary death squads. Colombia’s Supreme Court…
Former Colombian “para-politics” Senator Mario Salomon Nader has been officially charged with having ties to the AUC, El Espectador reported Wednesday. Salomon Nader was originally arrested on September 17, 2010,…
A former deputy director of Colombia’s intelligence agency DAS ordered the assassination of a leftist politician by paramilitaries, the Prosecutor General’s Office said Tuesday. According to prosecutors, there is enough…
Luis Carlos Restrepo, the peace commissioner who oversaw the demobilization of the AUC, was called to explain why he took part in fake acts of demobilization of paramilitary and guerrilla…