Demobilized members of illegal armed groups are rearming more than the Colombian government previously admitted. More than 2,000 of them were murdered, despite their official exit from the violent conflict,…
The Colombian government is required to make moral and financial reparations to families of the 24 villagers killed by paramilitaries in Valle in October 2001. On 10 October 2001, about…
On behalf of the Colombian State, vice president Francisco Santos asked for forgiveness for the 2000 El Salado massacre, one of the most brutal in the country’s history. During a…
Colombian politicians who sought political gain through deals with paramilitary death squads will be facing charges of crimes against humanity, the Supreme Court announced Monday. The court adjusted the jurisprudence…
Colombia’s Inspector General, Alejandro Ordoñez, announced Monday he will ask the Supreme Court to nullify the cases against parapoliticans who have resigned from Congress over paramilitary charges. According to Ordoñez,…
Colombian authorities apprehended Monday 22 alleged members of paramilitary ‘Cuchillo’s’ army, the Office of the Prosecutor General reported. The arrest operations took place in the towns of Villavicencio, Acacias, San…
Colombian authorities are alarmed about increasing paramilitary power across the eastern Colombian plains, reported newspaper El Tiempo on Monday. While national authorities focus on dealing with escalating violence in Medellin…
Colombia’s Prosecutor General will lay charges against John Jairo ‘El Tige’ Esquivel Cuadrado for his role in the El Salado slaughter of February 2000, in which 61 people were killed.…
This was no fight to the death, but a friendly football game in Villavicencio prison, organized in conjunction with celebrations of the Day of the Virgin Our Lady of Mercy.…