In an attempt to frustrate ongoing efforts to take down the leadership of Colombia’s largest neo-paramilitary group, Los Urabeños, the organization is reportedly offering rewards for the killing of members of the…
A day after paramilitary successor group Los Urabeños ended their shut-down of the north of Colombia and parts of Medellin, President Juan Manuel Santos told Colombians to not be intimidated…
Colombia’s largest paramilitary successor group Los Urabeños ended its economic shutdown of the north of Colombia on Saturday. The group on Friday extended Thursday’s 24-hour “pacific strike” that had already left several policemen…
Neo-paramilitary group Urabeños shut down the north of Colombia and carried out several attacks on the security forces, leaving it clear with the authorities that paramilitary forces, not the police, control public…
Colombia’s largest paramilitary successor group, Los Urabeños, are ordering people in the northwest of the country to take part in an anti-government march being organized for Saturday by former President Alvaro…
Almost 90 of Colombia’s 1,100 municipalities are extreme risk of violence in the event FARC rebels demobilize and will require rapid state intervention to prevent criminal power vacuums, according to…
The United Nations, in charge of monitoring a future peace deal between Colombia’s government and FARC rebels, warned Monday about a possible surge in violence by paramilitary successor groups if the FARC…
Months after neo-paramilitary group “Los Urabeños” forced an end to mining activities of Canada’s Gran Colombia Gold in northern Colombia, a newly announced group has vowed to reinstate order.
Colombia’s most powerful drug lord, Urabeños chief “Otoniel,” is not planning on surrendering to authorities as reported by media last week, the paramilitary successor group said Monday.