One of Colombia’s most notorious drug-trafficking gangs “Los Rastrojos” sent threatening emails and letters to over 60 non-governmental organizations (NGOs), senators and human rights activists, Colombian human rights NGO the…
The Colombian police have captured 714 members of criminal groups to date in 2010, including the high profile arrests of Hector Jose Buitrago, alias “El Patron,” and Ramon Alejandro Quintero, according…
A article published Saturday in El Tiempo documents the intertwined networks that exist between Colombia’s various neo-paramilitary groups, drug cartels, left-wing guerrillas, and a Russian trafficking syndicate, all of whom have…
Father Oscar Alberto Ortiz Henao, a priest in the San Antonio de Prado municipality near Medellin, central Colombia, was arrested Sunday, on charges of serving as second-in-command of a local paramilitary group.…
Nearly 250 Colombians who say they and relatives were victims of violence by Colombian right-wing paramilitaries filed a lawsuit on Wednesday seeking more than $1 billion in damages from the…
Two former congress representatives for the northern Colombian department of Choco, Edgar Ulises Torres and Odin Sanchez Montes de Oca, were on Wednesday called to trial by the Supreme Court…
The Colombian Inspector General’s office cites testimony as evidence of a “permanent link” between paramilitary group “Heroes de Tolova” and local authorities in the Uruba region of the Antioquia department in…
Victims of paramilitary groups, prosecutors, and ex-paramilitaries allege that Accion Social, Colombia’s presidential aid agency, has mismanaged funds intended for those affected by paramilitary violence, reports Verdad Abierta. The Victims’ Reparation…
The drug-trafficking gang “Los Rastrojos” is working to infiltrate national politics, according to an article published Tuesday by Colombian electoral analysis website Votebien. According to Votebien, Los Rastrojos, who many…