Leftist opposition senator Ivan Cepeda on Wednesday claimed that Colombia’s former President Alvaro Uribe worked with the Medellin Cartel’s top finance man, among several other accusations of ties to criminal…
Colombian authorities on Tuesday arrested the brother of a notorious paramilitary leader serving lengthy jail sentence in the United States, making this the third arrest of a family member in…
Top paramilitary commander and Medellin crime lord “Don Berna” reserved men and arms to keep control of criminal activity while in a 2005 event he was officially demobilizing forces, according to…
Colombia’s opposition is not allowed to explicitly mention Colombia’s former president and current senator Alvaro Uribe in a pending debate on the politicians’ alleged ties to paramilitary groups.
The former security chief of Colombian ex-president Alvaro Uribe reportedly admitted to illegally receiving a double salary from the state, but continues to deny charges he worked with drug trafficking and paramilitaries.
A local ombudsman issued a warning on Tuesday regarding the rearming of a paramilitary faction in northern Colombia, just as a different neo-paramilitary group made violent seizures in a neighboring state.
The Medellin Board of Transitional Justice sentencing eight demobilized paramilitaries from the AUC’s Elmer Cardenas bloc to prison for over 130 crimes committed between 1996 and 2004, local media reported…
Panamanian authorities extradited a former paramilitary commander to Colombia on Wednesday after bilateral cooperation resulted in his capture Monday morning after a 10-year manhunt.
The capture of some 32 local politicians in northwestern Colombia Wednesday is only the start of a much larger purge ordered by the state on the strength of testimony provided by a demobilized…