A group of 380 people, including 187 children, have been forcibly displaced from a town on Colombia’s Pacific coast, local media reported Thursday. The community, which was living in the Timbiqui…
Colombia’s neo-paramilitary drug gang “Los Rastrojos” has made more than a billion dollars from narco-trafficking to the United States in the last seven years, newspaper El Espectador reported Wednesday. According…
A U.S. businessman was shot and killed Tuesday by unknown gunmen in Colombia’s northern department of Magdalena, newspaper El Heraldo reported. The shooting occurred in the main industrial sector of…
In an exclusive interview with leading Colombian news magazine Semana, the current leader of neo-paramilitary group ERPAC, Jose Elberto Lopez, alias “Caracho,” stated that he was looking for a way…
Colombian authorities estimate that approximately 15,000 men are currently members of the illegal armed groups that are active throughout the country. In an interview with Caracol Radio, Army General Sergio…
Narco-paramilitary organizations are active in 347 of Colombia’s 1,119 municipalities, reported the non-governmental organization Indepaz Thursday. According to the NGO, the number of Colombian municipalities with a narco-paramilitary presence has…
The neo-paramilitary drug trafficking organization ERPAC is negotiating its demobilization with Colombian government officials, newspaper El Tiempo reported. According to the newspaper, the leader of ERPAC, Jose Eberto Lopez Montero,…
Local U Party head accuses criminal gang “La Cordillera” of waging a campaign of threats and intimidation against politicians and their supporters in the city of Pereira, west Colombia, El…
Authorities in central Colombia said Thursday they have arrested the cousin of the supreme leader of ERPAC, a feared neo-paramilitary drug trafficking organization. According to the National Police, the arrested…