Manuel Bernal, the accountant of extradited paramilitary chief Salvatore Mancuso, was murdered in Bogota by unknown assassins, radio station La FM reported Wednesday. Manuel Bernal had been Mancuso’s accountant for years…
The brother of Colombian former Inspector General Edgardo Maya was arrested for his alleged responsibility for the murder of two unionists working for multinational coal company Drummond. According to the…
A total of 217 guerrillas demobilized in August according to the Program for Humanitarian Attention for the Demobilized (PAHD), El Espectador reports. The central Colombian department of Cundinamarca registered 34…
Extradited paramilitary leader “Jorge 40” suspended all collaboration with Colombian justice until after his U.S. trial for drug charges. The attorney of the former AUC leader informed Colombia’s Supreme Court…
Colombia’s interior and justice minister said Friday that the government will relaunch its security policy to counter guerrilla attacks in the countryside as well as soaring violence in cities. Minister German…
Former paramilitaries admit to cremating the bodies of some 150 of their victims in northern Colombia between 2000 and 2004, prosecutors told news agency AP. According to Leonardo Cabana of…
The administration of Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos is seeking to take away the government’s power to demilitarize areas of the country, used in 1998 to facilitate peace talks with…
Extradited paramilitary Rodrigo Tovar Pupo, alias “Jorge 40,” refuses to testify in the parapolitics trials against former Magdalena Governor Jose Domingo Davila, and former director of government security agency DAS, Jorge…
A member of the FARC, convicted for a 2002 massacre that killed 119 civilians, was arrested on Friday, authorities say. According to the national government, the guerrilla, Harbey Torres Ayala,…