Colombia’s Inspector General’s Office called on the Supreme Court to convict former DAS Director Jorge Noguera for allegedly allowing paramilitaries to infiltrate the government security agency, reports El Espectador. During…
Colombia has asked the U.S. Department of State to grant sovereign immunity to former President Alvaro Uribe, who was recently subpoenaed in a civil case against coal giant Drummond. The…
Colombia’s defense minister on Wednesday claimed that over 10,000 members of illegal armed groups were arrested, killed or demobilized by the country’s security forces in 2010. According to Defense Minister…
President Juan Manuel Santos vowed to rid Colombian soccer of any “macabre association between criminals and sport clubs,” speaking at the Sportsman of the Year ceremony on Wednesday. “Either we change…
A bill to resolve the status of demobilized paramilitaries, who were left in legal limbo after the Constitutional Court overturned a law protecting them from prosecution, will be passed by…
Some 50,000 Colombians have gone missing over the past decades. In a series on the tragedy that has destroyed many families, Colombia Reports focuses first on a group of mothers…
Colombia’s government presented a draft initiative Monday which aims to provide a legal solution for the 17,000 demobilized paramilitaries left in limbo following a recent Constitutional Court decision to end…
An independent “Truth Commission” will study the cases of 17,0000 demobilized paramilitaries after Colombia’s constitutional court sank the suspension of prosecution of the former AUC members, newspaper El Tiempo reported…
Former paramilitary leader Jorge Ivan Laverde, alias “El Iguano,” says fellow former paramilitary leaders are suspending all collaboration with Colombian justice after the Constitutional Court ruled that 17,000 fighters can…