As the rapidly declining health of Colombia’s emerald czar forebodes potentially violent territorial disputes, other magnates along with the czar requested an “active presence” from the government to prevent another “Green…
Notorious former paramilitary Ramon Isaza gave details of how paramilitaries regularly “caught, tortured and killed” members of Pablo Escobar’s Medellin cartel during their conflict in the late 1980’s. The former…
Colombia’s Inspector General asked the Prosecutor General’s Office on Monday to investigate the role of two retired police generals in the 1989 murder of then-presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galan. According…
Families of victims of terrorist acts carried our by drug cartels in the 80s and 90s want to be included in Colombia’s Victims Law, reported newspaper El Tiempo on Thursday.…
“The Cathedral,” Pablo Escobar’s former luxury jail, will be turned into an elderly home, Spanish press agency EFE reported Tuesday. What used to be Colombia’s most luxurious prison — it…
Colombia’s “emerald tsar” Victor Carranza has told news network Al Jazeera that a war over the industry could erupt should he die. Carranza, one of the world’s top traders in…
An estimated 700 emails from the computer of former AUC commander and drug lord Vicente Castaño revealed the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and many top Colombian politicians may have…
Colombian authorities seized $24.6m worth of assets from the estate of the Galeano brothers, deceased members of the powerful Medellin Cartel that was headed by Pablo Escobar. “The [goods] were…
Local authorities, analysts and statistics clashed with U.K. daily The Guardian Wednesday after the newspaper claimed Medellin’s security improvements over the past ten years had been “blown apart” by drug…