Colombia’s largest paramilitary group, the AGC, said Sunday that it would redouble efforts to assume control over the country’s main cities in a blistering attack on President Ivan Duque. According…
Colombia’s President Ivan Duque on Thursday vowed to send the military after the AGC, the country’s largest illegal armed group that offered to submit to justice a year ago. While…
A change in government has put the promised demobilization of the AGC, Colombia’s largest illegal armed group, on hold, according to newspaper El Tiempo. The Autodefensas Gaitanistas de Colombia (AGC),…
Despite the conviction of a senior intelligence official for ordering the murder of legendary comedian Jaime Garzon, questions in Colombia remain. All while massacres were occurring on a near daily…
A top commander of the AGC was arrested on Sunday days after the paramilitary group said it was considering a surrender to justice. “Nicolas,” a member of the central command…
Colombia’s inspector general said Wednesday that criminal organizations are working with the police and the military to assassinate community leaders and human rights defenders. According to Inspector General Fernando Carrillo, “state…
Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos said that the country’s largest illegal armed group, the AGC, will be demobilizing “in the coming days.” The demobilization would mean the end of the…
Almost 700 people have been displaced from their communities in western Colombia after paramilitary incursions, the United Nations said Wednesday. According to the international organization, the inhabitants of five indigenous…
The United Nations’ Human Rights Council is “concerned” over ongoing ties between state agents and death squads in Colombia, it said in the periodic review of the country. The UN’s highest…