Extradited paramilitary Rodrigo Tovar Pupo, alias “Jorge 40,” refuses to testify in the parapolitics trials against former Magdalena Governor Jose Domingo Davila, and former director of government security agency DAS, Jorge…
A member of the FARC, convicted for a 2002 massacre that killed 119 civilians, was arrested on Friday, authorities say. According to the national government, the guerrilla, Harbey Torres Ayala,…
In a letter addressed to Organization of American States head Jose Miguel Insulza, a committee of jailed paramilitaries call for “urgent” reform to Colombia’s Justice and Peace law, claiming that…
The United States has implemented measures to allow Colombian prosecutors easier access to extradited leaders of paramilitary organization AUC, says Colombia’s prosecutor general. In an interview with newspaper El Espectador,…
Colombian Senator Piedad Cordoba announced Wednesday that she has arrived in Havana, Cuba, for talks with the former leader Fidel Castro. “I have already arrived in Cuba, I am studying…
Colombian Defense Minister Rodrigo Rivera said Monday that the new government of Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos will not recognize peace talks or plans with the guerrilla that have not…
Colombian Senator Piedad Cordoba will present to South American regional group UNASUR a peace proposal that includes guerrilla groups the FARC and the ELN, and demobilized paramilitary group the AUC. Cordoba’s…
The Supreme Court on Wednesday authorized the extradition of Eder Pedraza, alias “Ramon Mojana,” the first demobilized paramilitary to be sent to the U.S. since Colombia modified the extradition law in June.…
A public prosecutor in Cucuta, in Colombia’s Norte de Santander department, asked paramilitaries to disguise young people as AUC members in order to improve the prosecution’s arrest statistics, according to…