The Prosecutor General’s Office is to investigate Jorge Visbal Martelo, Colombia’s ambassador to Peru, for his alleged ties to paramilitary groups, El Espectador newspaper reported Monday. The investigation is to…
The State Department and a one-time adviser to former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe are being pressed for information in a U.S. court case brought by families of death squad victims…
Anti-narcotics police captured regional head of “Los Urabeños” who is said to be repsonsible for murder, kidnapping, extortion and the theft of land, reported El Espectador Friday. Giovannis Waldir Ustariz…
Former Congressman Oscar Leonidas Wilches has been captured in the city of Ipiales and sentenced to seven years and five months in prison for “parapolitics” and the crime of conspiracy,…
Two allegedly key figures in the neo-paramilitary group ERPAC have been captured by Colombian authorities, one of whom was in charge of infiltrating October’s upcoming regional elections while the other…
Two sons of former President Alvaro Uribe responded to accusations Wednesday from demobilized paramilitary leader, “El Canoso,” that they met with a former mayor accused of “parapolitics.” In a report…
“Ernesto Baez,” one of the former leaders of paramilitary organization AUC, was sentenced to 36 years in jail Thursday for the murder of a union leader in 2001. A Bogota…
Documents from Chiquita Brands International have contradicted the banana company’s earlier claims that it was extorted by Colombian paramilitary and guerrilla groups, instead showing they saw the illegal armed groups…
Founding members of the paramilitary organization the AUC, brothers Vicente and Carlos Castaño, were trustees of Colombia’s drug enforcement agency the DNE for over 15 years, El Tiempo reported Wednesday.…