Extradited paramilitary leader Salvatore Mancuso has said the Uribe administration invited drug dealers to the negotiation table during the AUC demobilization process. In an interview with El Tiempo from a…
An extradited AUC commander testified that his paramilitary group supported former president Alvaro Uribe’s 2002 presidential campaign in the south of Colombia, El Espectador reported Saturday. Guillermo Perez Alzate, alias…
Colombia’s intelligence agency DAS was infiltrated by paramilitaries, according to the testimony of its former deputy director of counter-intelligence. Jorge Alberto Lagos said that when he reviewed the organization in…
The Colombian internal conflict cost the country an average of $2.67 billion each year annually between 1980 and 2005, according to Finance Minister Juan Carlos Echeverry, newspaper El Espectador reported. With…
Business executives traveling to Colombia will be happy to hear that the Andean nation has outshone its neighbors in a recent survey on safety in the region. The Latin American…
Former paramilitary leader Aldides de Jesus Durango, alias “Rene,” was sentenced to 24 years on Monday for the murder of 31 people, Spanish news agency EFE reported. The prosecutor in…
Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon will travel to Colombia to work as an advisor to the Organization of American States (OAS) on human rights issues in the country and to monitor…
Three displaced land claimants have been killed within a 24 hour period, EFE reported Friday. Bernardo Rios Londoño, and Ever Verbel Rocha were killed on Wednesday in the departments of…
The leader of a group of people displaced by violence, who was campaigning for land restitution, is murdered in a busy shopping mall in the south of Medellin, Caracol reported…