Ex-congressman arrested for ‘parapolitics’
Former congressman Manuel Avila was arrested for alleged ties to paramilitary groups, newspaper El Espectador reported Tuesday. Avila is one of a long succession of current and former congressmen arrested…
Former congressman Manuel Avila was arrested for alleged ties to paramilitary groups, newspaper El Espectador reported Tuesday. Avila is one of a long succession of current and former congressmen arrested…
Former congressman Jesus Doval was arrested Tuesday for his alleged ties to paramilitary groups. Doval was arrested in his home in Apartado, Antioquia. The former Congress representative of the coalition…
Colombia’s prison authority on Monday ordered senator Javier Caceres to be moved to jail, following certification of his health by doctors. He had been rushed to the hospital for diabetes-related…
A paramilitary jailed for his role in the 2001 murders of two Drummond coal company unionists reveals more detail about the crime to RCN Radio. Jairo de Jesus Charris Castro, alias “El Viejo…
Former lawmakers Zulema Jattin and Eleonora Pineda testified before the Supreme Court that they were not aware of any illegal ties between former senator Mario Uribe and paramilitary groups.…
Manuel Bernal, the accountant of extradited paramilitary chief Salvatore Mancuso, was murdered in Bogota by unknown assassins, radio station La FM reported Wednesday. Manuel Bernal had been Mancuso’s accountant for years…
A total of 217 guerrillas demobilized in August according to the Program for Humanitarian Attention for the Demobilized (PAHD), El Espectador reports. The central Colombian department of Cundinamarca registered 34…
Former paramilitaries admit to cremating the bodies of some 150 of their victims in northern Colombia between 2000 and 2004, prosecutors told news agency AP. According to Leonardo Cabana of…
The administration of Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos is seeking to take away the government’s power to demilitarize areas of the country, used in 1998 to facilitate peace talks with…