The coalition Liberal Party blamed former President Alvaro Uribe Tuesday for violence caused by neo-paramilitary drug gangs. According to Liberal Party leader Rafael Pardo, the problems authorities are facing in…
Colombia’s defense minister proposes a strategy, including the creation of a Joint Task Force, aimed at destroying the infrastructure of criminal organizations throughout the country, El Espectador reports. Rodrigo Rivera…
The Colombian military will deploy elite troops in the north Colombian department of Cordoba to combat drug trafficking gangs, newspaper El Tiempo reported Monday. The Minister of Defense said that…
A lawsuit claiming an Alabama coal company executive paid paramilitary forces to kill three Colombian union leaders was revived Thursday when an appeals court ruled the victims’ children could sue…
In light of an investigatin, the governor of Antioquia, Colombia, denies having paramilitary ties. “I have never in my life needed paramilitaries, guerrillas or narco-traffickers in my political career. My…
Family members of demobilized paramilitary leaders gear up their campaigns for Colombian local government positions in the 2011 elections, newspaper El Tiempo reported Thursday. Roberto Jiminez Naranjo, the brother of extradited…
A group of former AUC members from the Catatumbo bloc began their hearing before the courts, the prosecutor general’s website reported Wednesday. Prosecutors for the National Unity for Justice and…
Former Colombian Senator Oscar Suarez Mira was arrested Wednesday for alleged links to paramilitaries, reports Caracol Radio. Agents from Colombia’s Technical Investigation Team (CTI) captured Mira in Medellin, Colombia where…
Venezuelan authorities announced Tuesday that they will extradite paramilitary hit man “El Mono Candelo” to Colombia to face charges. Newspaper El Tiempo reports that El Mono Candelo was caught by…