An unknown group purporting to stand for citizens’ justice distributed a flyer in social media platforms declaring its intentions to carry out “social cleansing” acts against criminals in Medellin, national…
Colombia police said Thursday they have captured an ex-paramilitary considered to be one of the main threats to the State’s land restitution process.
Ex-president Alvaro Uribe may be more deeply buried in Colombia’s parapolitics scandal than was once believed, as an archived confession by an ex-paramilitary indicates that he met with notorious paramilitary…
Colombia’s Supreme Court said it has convicted 45 congressmen and 7 governors for connections to paramilitary organizations since investigations into an ongoing “parapolitics” scandal broke in 2006.
Prosecutors in the northeast of Colombia on Monday charged Salvatore Mancuso, the extradited former leader of the AUC paramilitary group, with 1,500 crimes including hundreds of alleged crimes against humanity.
The vast majority of deserted or demobilized former members of Colombia’s guerrilla and paramilitary groups are satisfied with government attempt to reintegrate them, the state agency responsible for reintegration said.
Colombia’s Defense Ministry and National Army will have to pay more than $1 million to the families of seven men who were murdered in 1996 by legalized militias, ruled the…
A policeman, alleged former paramilitary and key witness in the case against the brother of former President Alvaro Uribe has been arrested on murder charges, local media reported on Tuesday.
One of Colombia’s most prominent paramilitary leaders was charged Thursday for his alleged involvement in the kidnapping of a politician and other major crimes, reported national media outlets this Friday.