Colombia’s chief prosecutor on Thursday promised results of more than 16,000 criminal investigations into the country’s private sector’s ties to illegal armed groups. The announcement came less than two weeks after…
More than 800 businesses sponsored paramilitary groups that committed tens of thousands of human right violations in Colombia, in most cases without consequence, according to a recent report. The report…
Evidence and witness testimonies indicate that Colombia’s former president, Alvaro Uribe, helped form a death squad. The big mystery is why this is not properly investigated.
Colombia’s business community may be shielded from a war crimes tribunal, but that doesn’t stop judges from investigating if businessmen made a fortune off murder and displacement. A court in…
Banana giant Chiquita Brands International paid more than $800,000 to left-wing guerrilla groups like the FARC and ELN in the 1990s, according to US documents published by the non-governmental National Security…
Colombia’s banana companies financed legal “private security companies” and not paramilitary groups, claimed the association chairman as several members face charges of supporting terrorism. According to Juan Camilo Restrepo, Colombia’s former agriculture…
A Medellin court ordered not only to investigate the brother of former President Alvaro Uribe for forming his own death squads, but also for financing other paramilitary groups. The court investigating…
Colombia’s prosecution is set to charge almost 200 companies, including multinationals like Dole and Del Monte, for financing death squads in the banana-growing region of the country, according to Blu Radio. The radio…
Companies who financed paramilitary death squads in Colombia’s banana growing region, including Chiquita’s subsidiary, will face charges for crimes against humanity, the Prosecutor General’s Office said Thursday. The prosecution decision is…