Colombian anti-narcotics police detained 25 people Thursday at a coca processing center “controlled by the FARC” who were apparently forced to work there by the guerrillas. The cocaine-producing laboratory operated…
A young boy, recruited by guerillas, detonated explosives next to a school in the eastern Colombian department of Arauca on Thursday. The boy placed explosives next to the only school…
The authorities arrested an alleged FARC finance boss on Thursday in the central Colombian city of Pereira, after tracking him for months. Intelligence agents arrested Rudsber Quinchia Davila, alias “Pabesa,”…
A Colombian prosecutor on Thursday ordered the arrest of former Liberal congressman Alfonso Lopez Cossio for alleged ties to paramilitary groups. The case investigator substituted house arrest for a prison…
Colombia’s Inspector General’s Office on Wednesday requested an investigation into an ex-DAS intelligence chief regarding his alleged involvement in the 1990 murder of a presidential candidate. The Inspector General’s Office…
Former DMG director David Murcia, convicted of managing a Ponzi scheme that defrauded hundreds of thousands of Colombians, was surrendered to U.S. authorities in Bogota Tuesday to face charges of…
Colombian prosecutors on Wednesday ordered the preventative detention of a paramilitary commander in the slaying of a journalist seven years ago in the violent eastern state of Arauca. Gunmen killed…
300 extortionists were captured and some 71 anti-gang operations orchestrated by Colombia’s intelligence agency DAS, who delivered their annual balance report Wednesday. The balance was delivered by DAS director Felipe…
A suspected drug trafficker wanted by the United States has been arrested by police in northern Colombia, police said Monday. Victor Hugo Ramirez Estupiñan, who allegedly heads an international drug…