Colombia’s former peace commissioner said Wednesday that the army needs to answer for the staged demobilization of a non-existent FARC front for which he is being investigated.
Top paramilitary commander and Medellin crime lord “Don Berna” reserved men and arms to keep control of criminal activity while in a 2005 event he was officially demobilizing forces, according to…
Canada has granted political asylum to Colombia’s former peace commissioner who has skirted justice for over two years, according to Semana magazine.
Former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has branded the trial of his former peace commissioner a “legal error,” as he continues to defend officials from his controversial administration who now face…
Colombia’s former peace commissioner has professed his innocence in face of accusations of fake FARC demobilizations, calling the prosecutor general’s charges against him “an outrage.” Speaking in an interview with…
A former paramilitary leader accused ex-Peace Commissioner Luis Carlos Restrepo, who oversaw the demobilization of the AUC, of inflating the numbers of demobilized paramilitary members, Colombian media reported. The ex-head…