Colombian Senator Piedad Cordoba will present to South American regional group UNASUR a peace proposal that includes guerrilla groups the FARC and the ELN, and demobilized paramilitary group the AUC. Cordoba’s…
Chilean sculptor Francisco Gazitua will construct a monument to the victims of Colombia’s paramilitaries out of 18,000 weapons handed in during the process of demobilization, reports El Tiempo. Forty-five tons of…
The Supreme Court on Wednesday authorized the extradition of Eder Pedraza, alias “Ramon Mojana,” the first demobilized paramilitary to be sent to the U.S. since Colombia modified the extradition law in June.…
A public prosecutor in Cucuta, in Colombia’s Norte de Santander department, asked paramilitaries to disguise young people as AUC members in order to improve the prosecution’s arrest statistics, according to…
Following Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzon’s warning that the International Criminal Court (ICC) could intervene if Colombia fails to administer justice to human rights violators, Colombia’s prosecutor general Guillermo Mendoza on…
Colombia’s inspector general on Monday cleared former Senator Alvaro Araujo Castro of links with paramilitary groups. In a press release, the Inspector General’s Office, which is responsible for investigating and punishing any violation…
High-profile Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzon said Tuesday that the International Criminal Court (ICC) will “obviously intervene,” if Colombia fails in its obligations to provide justice to the victims of the…
The U.S. government presented a plan designed to make it easier for Colombian judicial authorities to access extradited paramilitaries being held in U.S. prisons, in order to facilitate victim reparation in Colombia’s…
The Prosecutor General’s Office has cleared Medellin’s mayor Alonso Salazar of receiving support from the paramilitary group AUC and has tabled the criminal proceedings. According to a document dated July…