Far-right death squads controlled approximately half of Colombia’s congress in the early 2000s, according to one of the paramilitaries’ most important political chiefs. Ivan Roberto Duque, the political leader of…
Colombia’s justice minister seems to have conflicting thoughts on how to demobilize the thousands of members of paramilitary groups his government claims do not exist. Justice Minister Enrique Gil said…
One of the last living key witnesses against former President Alvaro Uribe has asked Colombia’s war crimes tribunal to hear his testimony on the politician’s alleged ties to a death squad.…
The former chief commander of the AUC, warlord Salvatore Mancuso, will cooperate with his country’s war crimes tribunal to crimes committed during the armed conflict. Mancuso was extradited to the…
Eight people have been killed in the north of Antioquia province since Sunday as paramilitary groups fight for territorial control of the region in the Bajo Cauca region. The killings stem…
Colombia’s government asked Congress to approve legislation that would allow the demobilization of the country’s largest illegal armed group, the AGC. The group, which has an estimated 7,000 members, offered…
In less than 10 years, Colombia’s largest drug trafficking organization, the AGC, has grown from 80 paramilitary fighters to a criminal powerhouse of more than 7,000 armed fighters who defy…
The United Nations on Friday bashed Colombia’s failures to carry out a peace process and warned for intervention of the International Criminal Court. The international organization said it was “extremely…
More than 800 businesses sponsored paramilitary groups that committed tens of thousands of human right violations in Colombia, in most cases without consequence, according to a recent report. The report…