Colombia’s Ministry of Defense said Tuesday that the fight against emerging illegal armed groups is being severely hampered by the country’s overstretched and inadequate justice system, reports CM&. According to…
For the first time, the Colombian courts on Tuesday handed down jail sentences to demobilized paramilitaries participating in the Justice and Peace program, ordering Edward Cobos, alias “Diego Vecino” and Uber…
Colombian investigative website Verdad Abierta reports on Tuesday that despite government praise for the Justice and Peace paramilitary demobilization program, the scheme has many serious problems. Five years after its…
Colombia modified its extradition law so that demobilized paramilitaries participating in the Justice and Peace program can not be immediately extradited until they have adequately complied with the national reparation process,…
Retired Colombian police major Juan Carlos Meneses remains firm in his accusation that President Alvaro Uribe’s brother, Santiago Uribe, led a paramilitary death squad in the 1990s, and denies that…
The Colombian government praises the widely criticized demobilization of paramilitary organization AUC, stressing that the peace process led to the discovery of some 40,000 crimes. According to a report by…
Former paramilitary boss Ever Veloza Garcia, alias “HH,” pleaded guilty to the murder of thirteen people in the Colombian departments of Valle del Cauca, Cauca and Antioquia between 2001 and…
New testimonies by demobilized paramilitaries suggest that a massacre took place in 2004 in Mapiripan, a town infamous for a paramilitary massacre that occurred there in 1997. Testifying before the…
Narco-trafficking kingpin Maximiliano Bonilla Orozco, alias “Valenciano,” the head of the paramilitary Office of Envigado gang, is in Costa Rica negotiating his surrender to U.S. authorities, according to a report…