A U.S. court has allowed three Colombian former paramilitaries to testify against Alabama-based coal company Drummond for the company’s alleged links to paramilitary organization AUC, Noticias Uno reported Tuesday. The…
Japanese trading house Itochu Corp. said Thursday it has agreed to pay $1.52 billion to buy a 20% stake in a Colombian coal mining operation owned by U.S. coal company…
The brother of former Inspector General Edgardo Maya Villazon has been charged with ordering the murder of a Drummond contractor in 2000 reported El Espectador Thursday. Jaime Blanco Maya is…
A former subcontractor of Alabama-based coal company Drummond will have to appear before a Colombian court for the murder of two unionists. The suspect, Jaime Blanco Maya, is accused of…
Lawyers for the former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe have argued that comments made by the U.S. government over three weeks ago with regard to the request for his testimony in…
The State Department and a one-time adviser to former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe are being pressed for information in a U.S. court case brought by families of death squad victims…
The Obama administration urged a federal judge to move cautiously rather than order former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe to undergo questioning now about any knowledge of right-wing death squads. In…
U.S. coal giant Drummond paid former paramilitaries for protection of its Colombian operations, according to diplomatic cables sent between 2006-2010 released by WikiLeaks to newspaper El Espectador. An October 2006 cable…
The United States government asked a Washington judge for more time to decide whether to grant political immunity to Colombia’s ex-president Alvaro Uribe. Colombia has asked the U.S. to grant…