An assassinated rancher with business ties to former President Alvaro Uribe financed the formation of the “Bloque Metro” paramilitary group in coordination with the then-governor’s chief of staff, a demobilized…
Colombia’s Defense Ministry and National Army will have to pay more than $1 million to the families of seven men who were murdered in 1996 by legalized militias, ruled the…
A Colombia court has used the sentencing of a former paramilitary warlord to call for the investigation of those with links to CONVIVIR, rural self defense militias that converted into…
Former President Alvaro Uribe continued his denial of paramilitary ties in an interview with RCN Radio Friday. Uribe denied accusations that he helped found paramilitary groups during his 1995-1997 tenure as…
The extradited commander-in-chief of the AUC, Salvatore Mancuso, testifies that his paramilitary organization formed the anti-guerrilla group “CONVIVIR” with the help of Colombia’s ex-President Alvaro Uribe when he was governor…
An investigation into former President Alvaro Uribe’s alleged illegal conduct while governor of Antioquia has been referred to the prosecutor general after languishing for eight years without movement under his…