The sins of Colombia’s ruling class: The Aguilar family
Colombia’s prosecutor general’s office dealt a blow to the Aguilar family, one of the...
Tag: Hugo Aguilar
The man who never killed Pablo Escobar, but did steal his gun
The former police colonel who for decades had claimed he killed Pablo Escobar lied and in fact...
A tale of two Colombian colonels in a parapolitical saga
An Army colonel who was key witness in a trial that sent a former Police...
Cop-turned-governor who hunted down Pablo Escobar sentenced to prison
A Colombian governor who claims to have personally shot drug-baron Pablo Escobar while a...
Former Colombia governor helped paramilitaries, Los Pepes: AUC leader
The extradited leader of the defunct paramilitary group AUC, accused a former governor of having links to paramilitaries and of aiding the founders of “Los Pepes” — the notorious vigilante group that helped...
Yet another witness against ex-governor’s ‘parapolitics’ recants testimony
After two other witnesses recently revoked their testimoney against an ex-governor’s involvement with paramilitary, a third ex-paramilitary also has also denied being witness to the former governor’s...
2nd witness to governor’s ‘parapolitics’ withdraws testimony
A second witness to a Colombian ex-governor’s alleged ties to paramilitary groups on Monday revoked his testimony condemning the politician. Jesus Guerrero, an ex-member of the AUC paramilitary group, retracted his...
Ex-paramilitary retracts testimony against former governor
A former member of the demobilized paramilitary group AUC has retracted damning testimony against a former governor of Santander, reported local media Tuesday. Luis Fernando Morales, who demobilized from AUC’s Central...
