Extradited paramilitary boss “H.H.” names several Colombian politicians who he says received support from the militia group AUC, La F.M. Radio reported Monday. Former AUC commander Ever Veloza Garcia, alias “H.H.,”…
Police have captured two former FARC guerrillas who were extorting money from local businesses in Colombia’s south-west Putumayo department, Colombian media reported Monday. After several days of surveillance in Puerto Leguizamo,…
An 11-year-old girl was caught Sunday trying to smuggle 74 cell phones and a gun into a Medellin prison. The girl had the phones and weapon taped neatly to her…
Guards of the maximum security ward of Bogota‘s La Picota prison fear for their lives after the murder of one of their colleagues, Caracol Radio reported Sunday. According to the…
An alleged leader of one of the FARC guerrilla group’s urban militia was captured in Medellin on Friday, reported newspaper El Colombiano. The guerrilla leader, alias “Marcos” or “Osama,” is accused…
A lawsuit claiming an Alabama coal company executive paid paramilitary forces to kill three Colombian union leaders was revived Thursday when an appeals court ruled the victims’ children could sue…
Extradited paramilitary leader Ramiro “Cucoy Vanoy” Murillo is charged by Colombian prosecutors with 192 separate criminal acts, including torture and murder, Spanish news agency reported EFE Thursday. The eight-day-long hearing…
Former Medellin chief prosecutor Guillermo Leon Valencia Cossio says he did not meet with drug-trafficker “El Indio” and that he was at a motel with a female friend, Caracol Radio reported…
In light of an investigatin, the governor of Antioquia, Colombia, denies having paramilitary ties. “I have never in my life needed paramilitaries, guerrillas or narco-traffickers in my political career. My…