A Colombian prosecutor travelled to Argentina on Tuesday to speak with the former Colombian police major who alleges that President Alvaro Uribe’s brother led a paramilitary death squad in the…
U.S.-based NGO the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) says it received a second death threat in as many months from Colombian paramilitary group the “Aguilas Negras.” WOLA, whose focus…
Residents of the northern Colombian town of El Salado say that ten years after a paramilitary massacre that left more than 100 dead, the state has failed to deliver fully…
The head of the National Reparation and Reconciliation Commission (NRRC) said that reparations made to victims by demobilized paramilitaries under Colombia’s Justice and Peace process have been “absolutely insufficient,” reports…
A paramilitary group called “The Joint Cleansing Command” sent threats warning of “extermination” to seventeen human rights organizations, according to the Center for Investigation and Popular Education (CINEP), reports El Espectador. The…
The Washington Post published a letter from Colombia’s ambassador to the U.S. Carolina Barco, expressing concern over an article printed by the North American newspaper, in which former major Juan…
Oscar-winning American filmmaker Oliver Stone called on the world to “Pray that we don’t have another military regime in Colombia,” El Heraldo reported Tuesday. The filmmaker was speaking in Quito, Ecudador,…
Colombia’s Constitutional Court upheld a Supreme ruling that former Senator Juan Manuel Lopez Cabrales be sentenced to six years in jail for his paramilitary ties. The Constitutional Court’s ruling followed…
An Ombudsman from Colombia’s Pacific coast department of Choco reports that numerous dead bodies, believed to be the victims of violence between illegal armed groups, have been pulled out of…