President Juan Manuel Santos has called for the support of Colombian businessmen in the reintegration of demobilized paramilitaries, newspaper Terra reported Wednesday. Speaking at the forum titled “Reintegration, a business committed…
The army has found 10 bodies thought to be former AUC members in a mass grave in the municipality of Toledo, northern Antioquia department, reported El Tiempo. After three days…
The Colombian Supreme Court has begun preliminary investigations into a further case against former Senator Mario Uribe Escobar, regarding ties to extradited drug trafficker Juan Carlos Sierra, alias “El Tuso,”…
A former subcontractor of Alabama-based coal company Drummond will have to appear before a Colombian court for the murder of two unionists. The suspect, Jaime Blanco Maya, is accused of…
A jailed former paramilitary has escaped prison during an expedition to an alleged paramilitary mass grave. According to media reports, the former paramilitary ringleader, Juan Manuel Barreto, alias “Javier,” fled…
Eighty families of peasants and ex-AUC members in the municipality of Unguia, Choco department, have been displaced by alleged members of the FARC’s 57th Front, newspaper El Espectador reported Monday.…
Lawyers for the former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe have argued that comments made by the U.S. government over three weeks ago with regard to the request for his testimony in…
The Organization of American States (OAS) expressed on Wednesday their concern over the terrorizing of Colombia’s population by criminal groups comprised of formerly demobilized paramilitaries, AFP reported Wednesday. During a…
U.S. authorities have moved forward a series of 200 proceedings in investigations into over a dozen ex-paramilitary leaders detained in the U.S. since 2008, Colombian media reported Monday. After meeting…