One policemen was killed and three were injured on Wednesday amid ongoing attacks on security forces by the neo-paramilitary Gaitanista Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AGC). According to local media, the group…
Colombia’s Defense Ministry on Monday changed the official name of the country’s largest paramilitary successor group, the Gaitanista Self-Defense forces of Colombia (AGC), for the second time in two years. Defense…
Education, not employment, is the key to reducing recidivism among ex-combatants, according to a new study.
US President Barack Obama signed into law an expansion of counter-narcotics prosecutors’ power that has alarmed Colombians who fear small coca growers could be extradited.
“Los Urabeños, ” Colombia’s largest neo-paramilitary group, plans to assassinate thirty top prosecution and police officials, including four generals, El Tiempo newspaper reported.
The United States is providing military intelligence to fight paramilitary groups formed from the now-defunct AUC, according to President Juan Manuel Santos.
Colombia’s neo-paramilitary groups left more than 320,000 victims since their parent organization, the AUC, formally demobilized its last block in 2006, according to the government’s Victims Unit.
In the years after Colombia’s largest paramilitary organization AUC demobilized, thousands of its demobilized members were assassinated. FARC rebels, currently negotiating peace with the government, could await the same fate.
Colombia security is severely under threat at the hands of illegal paramilitary groups, according to a report published last week by conflict monitoring NGO Indepaz.