Colombia modified its extradition law so that demobilized paramilitaries participating in the Justice and Peace program can not be immediately extradited until they have adequately complied with the national reparation process,…
The Colombian government praises the widely criticized demobilization of paramilitary organization AUC, stressing that the peace process led to the discovery of some 40,000 crimes. According to a report by…
Former paramilitary boss Ever Veloza Garcia, alias “HH,” pleaded guilty to the murder of thirteen people in the Colombian departments of Valle del Cauca, Cauca and Antioquia between 2001 and…
New testimonies by demobilized paramilitaries suggest that a massacre took place in 2004 in Mapiripan, a town infamous for a paramilitary massacre that occurred there in 1997. Testifying before the…
Residents of the northern Colombian town of El Salado say that ten years after a paramilitary massacre that left more than 100 dead, the state has failed to deliver fully…
Colombia’s Constitutional Court upheld a Supreme ruling that former Senator Juan Manuel Lopez Cabrales be sentenced to six years in jail for his paramilitary ties. The Constitutional Court’s ruling followed…
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe acknowledges the infiltration of security agency DAS by criminals and reminds the public that he himself was a victim of breaches of the security agency. In…
Despite guarantees, only six of the fourteen former top AUC paramilitary leaders who were extradited to the United States two years ago have been able to participate in Colombia’s Justice…
Colombia’s Supreme Court sentenced former congressman for the northern Magdalena department Jorge Castro Pacheco to seven years and six months in jail, after finding him guilty of parapolitics. Castro Pacheco…