Former Colombian president Alvaro Uribe allegedly supported promoting Mauricio Santoyo, who is now imprisoned for drug trafficking and having ties with paramilitaries, to top government positions. According to Oscar Naranjo,…
Colombia’s Victims and Land Restitution Law has achieved little in a year and a half and the government’s protection program leaves people vulnerable, said a land restitution leader on Wednesday.…
Lawyers for Colombia’s former president Alvaro Uribe, have accused a congressman of “irregularites” in collecting testimony regarding the ex-president’s alleged paramilitary ties. David Espinosa, one of Uribe’s lawyers, told Colombia’s…
A Colombian court has ruled that the state must pay over $500,000 to displaced families for failure to protect them from paramilitaries, reported local media Monday. The judicial body, the…
Former Colombia president Alvaro Uribe has used Twitter to denounce the investigation alleging he helped start paramilitary groups. Using a hashtag #VenganzaCriminal, or “Criminal Revenge” in reference to his accusers,…
Colombia’s Prosecutor General on Tuesday announced the reopening of a preliminary investigation against former president Alvaro Uribe regarding alleged links to paramilitaries. Testimonies from two imprisoned ex-paramilitaries given to congressman Ivan…
130 demobilized members of illegal armed groups have graduated from Medellin’s rehabilitation program to integrate back into Colombian society. Former paramilitaries and ex guerrillas, many from the groups FARC and…
Police captured Diego Fernando Soto, alias ‘El Ruso’, an alleged commander of disbanded paramilitary group, the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), W Radio reported Thursday. ‘El Ruso’ or “The Russian”…
The last few days have seen the arrests of three groups of government officials or soldiers for links with the FARC and neo-paramilitary groups. Five soldiers of the 4th Brigade…