Colombian Congressman Ivan Cepeda has accused three mining companies of using falsified documents to seize land intended for farmers and displaced persons, local media reported on Friday.
An assassinated rancher with business ties to former President Alvaro Uribe financed the formation of the “Bloque Metro” paramilitary group in coordination with the then-governor’s chief of staff, a demobilized…
Colombia’s prosecution has opened further accusations against former general Flavio Buitrago, the second former security chief of ex-president Alvaro Uribe with alleged ties to paramilitary drug traffickers. The former general…
The Presidential Program for Human Rights has called upon the Colombian public to be more welcoming to demobilized combatants.
Colombia’s army and police were “crucial” for the growth of paramilitary forces in northern Colombia in the 1990s, the Prosecutor’s General’s Office told investigative website Verdad Abierta.
The prison-produced CDs of a convicted paramilitary were handed out to soldiers at an event last year put on by Colombia’s National Army to pay homage to servicemen wounded in…
Former paramilitary leader “Don Berna” has been charged with an additional 20 crimes by a Medellin court chamber in charge of investigating crimes committed by the now-demobilized AUC.
A Colombian court has begun proceedings to exclude a former paramilitary boss from judicial benefits he was granted when demobilizing a decade ago. The Prosecutor General’s Office said Monday that…
The statement of an imprisoned former paramilitary leader that accused a former Colombian general of having ties to paramilitary forces has brought death threats to his son, reported Colombian media…