An ex-paramilitary commander was sentenced on Thursday to 13 years in prison after admitting responsibility for aggravated murder amongst other crimes. Former AUC commander Jorge Ivan Laverde Zapata, alias “El Iguano,”…
Former members of the umbrella paramilitary organization AUC were charged Wednesday for crimes of torture, forced displacement and disappearance and murder of protected persons. Four former members of the “Catatumbo…
A former paramilitary leader named retired Colombian army generals as complicit in massacres in the northern Norte de Santander province during the late 1990s, reported El Tiempo Monday. Former AUC paramilitary leader Salvatore…
A Bogota court ordered Colombia’s Justice Ministry to protect the family of the extradited ex-AUC commander Salvatore Mancuso before giving further testimonies about his paramilitary activities, reported newspaper El Espectador…
Colombia’s Prosecutor General says demobilized paramilitary boss Salvatore Mancuso was responsible for over 10,000 deaths in the department of Norte de Santander during his time as leader of the AUC’s…