Legendary former paramilitary chief Ivan Roberto Duque died on Tuesday after suffering a heart attack in Medellin. Duque, who was a top-ranking political chief of now-defunct paramilitary organization AUC, was…
A former narco who Colombian media dubbed the “life saver” of former President Alvaro Uribe’s brother last year put another nail in the coffin of this “good Colombian” over the…
Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s Office asked a Medellin court on Wednesday to convict the brother of former President Alvaro Uribe for leading a far-right death squad in the 1990s. According to…
Para-economics is a phenomenon in Colombia in which businesses use death squads to either evade labor laws, increase their assets or maximize profits. The practice was particularly common in the 1990s and 2000s but…
A court sentenced Colombia’s state to repair survivors of the 2000 paramilitary massacre of El Salado for its responsibility in arguably the bloodiest massacre committed during the armed conflict. According…
Paramilitary group “Los Caparrapos” operates in the north of Colombia, specifically in Bajo Cauca, a gold-rich region in the Antioquia province. The group was initially formed in 1996 by “Macaco,”…
“Los Puntilleros” is the name given to paramilitary groups “Bloque Meta” and “Libertadores de Vichada,” two rival factions of AUC dissident group ERPAC. The Puntilleros is considered a Class A Organized…
Diego Fernando Murillo, a.k.a. “Don Berna,” is probably the most important figure in the history of crime in Medellin after Pablo Escobar, his former boss.
Ranchers in the northern Colombia will “arm themselves illegally” if the government does not lift the restriction on them carrying weapons, former President Alvaro Uribe said Wednesday The demands of…