Colombia’s defense minister proposes a strategy, including the creation of a Joint Task Force, aimed at destroying the infrastructure of criminal organizations throughout the country, El Espectador reports. Rodrigo Rivera…
Officials from the northern Colombian Cordoba department met in Bogota to discuss the problem of drug trafficking in the region, Caracol Radio reported Friday. The mayor of Tierralta, Anibal Ortiz…
Colombian security officials express their concern over the growth of emerging criminal gangs, which police chief Oscar Naranjo called the biggest threat to security. Naranjo and Defense Minister Rodrigo Rivera…
Venezuelan authorities announced Tuesday that they will extradite paramilitary hit man “El Mono Candelo” to Colombia to face charges. Newspaper El Tiempo reports that El Mono Candelo was caught by…
A congressman demands demolition of a statue that pays homage to paramilitaries in Cordoba, a department recently hit by neo-paramilitary violence. Congressman Ivan Cepeda made a request via the right…
Paramilitary drug lord “Cuchillo,” one of Colombia’s most wanted criminals, has been killed, Colombian police said Tuesday. Cuchillo, whose real name was Pedro Oliverio Guerrero, was killed by police forces…
Violence in the department of Cordoba has been increasing, according to a report from Verdad Abierta. Numerous labor and union leaders, as well as those fighting for land to be…
Members of the army based in eastern Colombia protected and helped “Cuchillo,” one of Colombia’s most wanted paramilitary drug lords, a soldier told newscast Noticias Uno. According to soldier John…
Colombian security forces have arrested more than 500 members of “emerging” criminal gangs so far in 2010, President Juan Manuel Santos said Thursday. “Over the course of the year we neutralized…