With the arrest of nine alleged members of the Gaitanista Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AGC), authorities have arrested 223 alleged members of the country’s largest illegal armed group so far…
Between a peace agreement with Colombia’s government and the disarmament of the country’s largest guerrilla group FARC, 37 social leaders were assassinated in the country. Many others remain under imminent…
Colombian authorities arrested a Bogota public prosecutor Saturday on suspicion of illegally benefiting paramilitary leaders under the Justice and Peace demobilization program. According to the investigations, prosecutor Hilda Jeaneth Niño…
Paramilitary groups have taken control of considerable territory in the south of the capital Bogota, news website Pacifista reported based on Ombudsman alerts. In a 22-page document from 2016 and a follow-up…
Colombia’s largest illegal armed group, the AGC, a.k.a. “Los Urabeños,” is planning terrorist attacks in Colombia’s largest cities Bogota and Medellin, according to an internal police memo leaked to Blu Radio.…
Colombia’s largest illegal armed group, the AGC, told Colombia Reports on Friday it is not the author of a pamphlet that announced a curfew and a “social cleansing” in areas formerly controlled by FARC…
No more than 47 of approximately 30,000 paramilitaries who demobilized more than a decade ago have since been convicted of war crimes, reported Colombia’s leading newspaper El Tiempo Thursday. The “Justice…
Pamphlets signed by the AGC, Colombia’s largest illegal armed group, confirmed the paramilitaries’ apparent attempt to consolidate power in former FARC territories throughout the country. While some 7,000 FARC guerrillas are still in rural camps…
Colombian authorities arrested the first former commander of paramilitary group AUC, many of whom have been released from prison after serving a reduced sentence. Arnubio Triana, also known as “Botalon,” was arrested in…