The Organization of American States (OAS) expressed on Wednesday their concern over the terrorizing of Colombia’s population by criminal groups comprised of formerly demobilized paramilitaries, AFP reported Wednesday. During a…
Extradited paramilitary leader Salvatore Mancuso has said the Uribe administration invited drug dealers to the negotiation table during the AUC demobilization process. In an interview with El Tiempo from a…
Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon will travel to Colombia to work as an advisor to the Organization of American States (OAS) on human rights issues in the country and to monitor…
Colombia’s defense minister has called on Congress not to grant political status to neo-paramilitary groups, as they lack any political ideology and are simply “vulgar narco-traffickers,” RCN Radio reports Wednesday. Rodrigo…
A lawyer representing the victims of two demobilized blocs of the former paramilitary group the AUC has been assassinated in Medellin, Colombian media reports. The lawyer, Ricardo Alberto Sierra, was…
Poor personal and institutional relations within the Colombian government were detrimental to the demobilization process according to a WikiLeaks cable released via El Espectador. In the cable dated June 5,…
A WikiLeaks cable released Sunday reveals how rumors began to circulate in 2008 about paramilitary involvement in the 2005 election of Colombia’s prosecutor general. In March 2010, former AUC leader…
The Supreme Court on Wednesday authorized the extradition of Eder Pedraza, alias “Ramon Mojana,” the first demobilized paramilitary to be sent to the U.S. since Colombia modified the extradition law in June.…
A delegation of trade unionists and British congressmen found the remains of 2,000 unidentified people buried in Macarena cemetery in the department of Meta . Jairo Ramirez, a spokesman for…