Garcia Orjuela called to trial
Carlos Garcia, the former president of coalition party De la U and close ally of Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, was called to trial for his alleged links with paramilitary groups.…
Carlos Garcia, the former president of coalition party De la U and close ally of Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, was called to trial for his alleged links with paramilitary groups.…
Colombian illegal armed groups are recruiting demobilized paramilitaries to work as mercenaries in Honduras, several Colombian media reported Monday. According to newspaper El Tiempo, some Honduran business people are hiring…
Retired General Francisco Pedraza was released from prison Friday two days after he was arrested for his alleged involvement in a 2001 paramilitary massacre that killed at least 26 civilians.…
The former governor of the northern Colombian Sucre department Friday was sentenced to seven and a half years imprisinment for his ties to paramilitary death squads. The country’s Supreme Court…
The Colombian government denounced a conspiracy “on a [national] and international level,” as being behind the accusations of a former director of information of DAS, who is testifying against right-wing…
Colombian authorities have arrested retired General Francisco Rene Pedraza Pelaez for his alleged involvement in the massacre of at least 26 peasants and indigenous in 2001 in the south west…
118 properties of alleged members of the Medellin-based paramilitary organization Office of Envigado were seized by Colombian authorities, the Prosecutor General’s Office announced Wednesday. The properties seized in Bogota, Medellin, Barranquilla,…
Colombian authorities arrested 46 alleged members of paramilitary group ‘Aguilas Negras’ in the south of the country. According to the police, the massive arrest is a significant blow for the…
Children in Colombia continue to be killed, maimed, tortured, raped, recruited and abducted in the country’s violent conflict. This is despite significant government efforts, the United Nations said Tuesday.…