Former paramilitary leader Freddy Rendon Herrera, alias “El Aleman,” told a Bogota court that emerald czar Victor Carranza gave important economic support to the paramilitaries. El Tiempo reported Thursday that El Aleman…
Thirteen local politicians in Uraba, northern Colombia, are charged with having had ties to the Elmer Cardenas bloc of demobilized paramilitary organization the AUC, newspaper El Espectador reported Monday. The demobilized…
The Prosecutor General’s Office announces it will begin investigations into the possible false demobilization of more than 850 AUC members in 2003, Radio Santa Fe reported Monday. “We are already taking…
Former congressman Manuel Avila was arrested for alleged ties to paramilitary groups, newspaper El Espectador reported Tuesday. Avila is one of a long succession of current and former congressmen arrested…
Former Colombian Senator Mario Salomon Nader was arrested in the Caribbean city of Barranquilla for his alleged ties with paramilitary groups. Salomon was arrest after his named appeared on a list…
The Colombian Supreme Court Wednesday sentenced former congressman Humberto de Jesus Builes Ortega to seven and a half years in jail for his ties to demobilized paramilitary leader Freddy Rendon…
Colombia’s Prosecutor General charged demobilized paramilitary leader Freddy Rendon, alias “El Aleman” with the 1999 kidnapping of Colombian Senator Piedad Cordoba. The prosecution alleges that El Aleman, who led the…
Five months after Spanish judge Balthasar Garzon ordered the extradition of Colombia’s controversial “emerald czar” Victor Carranza for alleged paramilitary links, the National Court in Madrid has annulled the investigation…
President Alvaro Uribe called Friday for immediate dialogue with the Supreme Court over its decision to unilaterally impose restrictions on extradition to the U.S, reports Caracol Radio. Uribe said that…