‘Urabeños’ killed in north Colombia clashes with FARC
Alleged members of paramilitary successor group “Los Urabeños” were killed in combat with FARC rebels in the north of Colombia on Monday.
Alleged members of paramilitary successor group “Los Urabeños” were killed in combat with FARC rebels in the north of Colombia on Monday.
$200 thousand in drug money found in a congressman’s car driven by the son of Congress’ finance chief embarrassingly revealed how Colombia’s ruling class continues to enjoy ties to the country’s drug lords.
The party of Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos was embarrassed on Tuesday when the military arrested a coalition congressman’s assistant with $200,000 in cash, alleged drug money, stashed in the congressman’s car.
Authorities on Monday captured a former official of Colombia’s now-defunct intelligence agency for his relation to the 1989 murder of anti-Pablo Escobar presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galan.
A total of 1,054 kilos of cocaine were seized in two operations in the southwestern Colombian province of Nariño, the navy said.
Colombia’s wealthy have $100 billion, more than a quarter of the country’s GDP, stashed in offshore accounts, the country’s former tax chief estimated Monday.
Almost 90 of Colombia’s 1,100 municipalities are extreme risk of violence in the event FARC rebels demobilize and will require rapid state intervention to prevent criminal power vacuums, according to…
Colombia’s Navy said Sunday it has seized more than 2,000 kilograms of cocaine in the northwest of the country.
Colombia will deploy an extra 5,000 men in a pilot campaign to eradicate coca, the crop used to produce cocaine, while kick-starting crop substition programs that seek to curb an explosive growth…