FARC party UP seeks rebirth
Surviving members of the FARC-linked Union Patriotica (UP) have petitioned to regain their status as a political party, newspaper El Espectador reported Monday. Former Supreme Court magistrate Jaime Araujo Renteria…
Surviving members of the FARC-linked Union Patriotica (UP) have petitioned to regain their status as a political party, newspaper El Espectador reported Monday. Former Supreme Court magistrate Jaime Araujo Renteria…
Colombia’s Supreme Court will revise the cases against three congressmen who are accused of ties to paramilitary death squads, but were absolved or released early. According to Caracol Radio, the…
Colombian authorities recovered a usb-stick that was stolen from an NGO that helps victims of forced displacement to recover their lands. The memory stick contains the names of all victims…
Venezuela on Sunday claimed it arrested the leader of Colombian neo-paramilitary group “Aguilas Negras” in the northwestern city of Maracaibo. According to Interior Minister Tarek El Aissami, the arrested suspect…
Colombian authorities have no idea of the whereabouts of some 5,000 former paramilitary fighters who were part of the massive demobilization of the AUC, newspaper El Tiempo reported on Sunday.…
Demobilized and extradited paramilitary chief “Don Berna” has told Colombian prosecutors that a former deputy director of intelligence service DAS was a member of paramilitary organization AUC, newspaper El Espectador…
Police arrest a right-hand man of “Valenciano,” one of Colombia’s most wanted drug traffickers. Jose Benito Villarreal Ramirez, alias “Echeverry,” was arrested Friday in the Magdalena department in northern Colombia.…
A bill presented to Colombia’s Congress Friday seeks to provide equal treatment for both soldiers and demobilized paramilitaries who are facing trial, reported newspaper El Nuevo Siglo. “It is very…
France has requested the extradition of an ex-paramilitary leader for the murder of a Franco-Colombian in 2002, reports El Tiempo. Jose Gregorio Mangonez, who’s alias is “Tijeras” (scissors) due to…